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Craft Sciences
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research conducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This anthology aims to expose the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and results that reside in this field, and to explore what unites the research in such diverse contexts as, for example, the arts, conserva-tion, or vocational craft education. The common thread between each of the chapters in the present book is the augmented attention given to methods—the craft research methods—and to the relationship between the field of inquiry and the field of practice. A common feature is that practice plays an instrumental role in the research found within the chapters, and that the researchers in this publication are also practitioners. The aut-hors are researchers but they are also potters, waiters, carpenters, gardeners, textile artists, boat builders, smiths, building conservators, painting restorers, furniture designers, il-lustrators, and media designers. The researchers contribute from different research fields, like craft education, meal sciences, and conservation crafts, and from particular craft subjects, like boat-building and weaving. The main contribution of this book is that it collects together a number of related case studies and presents a reflection on concepts, perspectives, and methods in the general fields of craft research from the point of view of craft practitioners. It adds to the existing academic discussion of crafts through its wider acknowledgement of craftsmanship and extends its borders and its discourse outside the arts and crafts context. This book provides a platform from which to develop context-appropriate research strategies and to associate with the Craft Sciences beyond the bor-ders of faculties and disciplines.
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- Edvardsson, Johannes, et al.
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How Cultural Heritage Studies Based on Dendrochronology Can Be Improved through Two-Way Communication
- 2021
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Ingår i: Forests. - : MDPI AG. - 1999-4907. ; 12:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A significant part of our cultural heritage consists of wood. Research on historical wooden structures and artefacts thereby provides knowledge of people's daily lives and the society in which they lived. Dendrochronology is a well-established dating method of wood that can also provide valuable knowledge about climate dynamics, environmental changes, silviculture, and cultural transformations. However, dendrochronology comes with some limitations that end users in cultural heritage sciences must be aware of, otherwise their surveys may not be ultimately performed. We have drawn attention to studies in which dendrochronological results have been misinterpreted, over-interpreted, or not fully utilized. On the other hand, a rigorous dendrochronological survey may not respond to the request of information in practice. To bridge this rigour-relevance gap, this article has considered and reviewed both the dendrochronology's science-perspective and the practitioner's and end user's call for context appropriate studies. The material for this study consists of (i) interviews with researchers in dendrochronology and end users represented by cultural heritage researchers with focus on building conservation and building history in Sweden, and (ii) a review of dendrochronological reports and the literature where results from the reports have been interpreted. From these sources we can conclude that a continuous two-way communication between the dendrochronologists and end users often would have resulted in improved cultural heritage studies. The communication can take place in several steps. Firstly, the design of a sampling plan, which according to the current standard for sampling of cultural materials often is required, is an excellent common starting point for communication. Secondly, the survey reports could be developed with a more extensive general outline of the method and guidance in how to interpret the results. Thirdly, the potential contribution from dendrochronology is often underused, foreseeing historical information on local climate, silviculture, and choice of quality of the wooden resource, as the focus most often is the chronological dating. Finally, the interpretation of the results should consider all the available sources where dendrochronology is one stake for a conciliant conclusion.
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- Groth, Camilla, et al.
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Conference proceedings of the 1st biennial international conference for the craft sciences – biccs 2021
- 2021
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Ingår i: FormAkademisk. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1890-9515. ; 14:2, s. 1-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The papers appearing in this issue comprise the proceedings of the 1st Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences, held online during 4–6 May 2021, initiated by the Craft Laboratory, affiliated at the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Craft Laboratory was established in 2010 in cooperation with heritage organisations, craft enterprises and trade organisations, to empower craftspeople in the complex processes of making. The comprehensive agenda is to bring research into practice and involve craftspeople in the processes of inquiry. Among the operational tools are Master Classes provided for highly trained professional craftspeople in particular skills. Craft Scholarships are offered to craftspeople to investigate a problem or question in their practice, or develop ideas to improve methods or techniques. The site-specific workshop capacity in Mariestad allows craft researchers to implement research questions in practice and to perform full-scale tests in our masonry, carpentry and painting workshops, as well as in the timber building yard, greenhouses and gardens.
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- Illsley, William, 1989, et al.
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The edutainment scan: immersive media and its deployment in museums
- 2024
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Ingår i: Museum Management and Curatorship. - 0964-7775.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the usage of immersive media in museum exhibitions, departing from the conviction that to maintain their credibility, museums need to work systematically with source criticism and evidence in mediation based on experiences and involving empathy, affect and sensory aspects of history. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, the article serves as a literature review of research informing the use of this immersive media in museum exhibitions. To this end, the article seeks to defragment a clustered field, wherein digitality pervades almost all heritage domains to provide a museum-specific overview. Second, and more applicable to a general audience, this article seeks to bridge the gap between research-led theory and museum practice. The review provides insight into recent research results that have been structured through six themes, namely technology readiness, immersivity and affect, intelligibility and agency, authenticity, source critique and scholarly contribution, and finally, pedagogy.
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- Kokko, S., et al.
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Mapping the methodologies of the craft sciences in Finland, Sweden and Norway
- 2020
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Ingår i: Craft Research. - : Intellect. - 2040-4689. ; 11:2, s. 177-209
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The craft sciences have emerged as a field of academic research in Finland, Sweden and Norway since the early 1990s. In Finland, craft research has examined various aspects of crafts using a multidisciplinary approach, adapting a range of methods from other academic disciplines according to the research topic. Another source has been the schools of domestic sciences in which craft research has been a recognized field. In Sweden and Norway, craft research has developed strongly in architectural conservation and cultural heritage with a focus on traditional craftsmanship and the performative elements of intangible cultural heritage. This article offers an overview of the developments and progress of the field of craft sciences in these countries, including its methodological approaches, with a focus on Ph.D. theses. Through mapping recurrent methodological approaches, the following categories were derived: craft reconstruction, craft interpretations, craft elicitation, craft amplification and craft socialization. The aim of the classifica-tion, and the model derived from it, is to help researchers and students understand better how different types of knowledge relate to different research methods and apply them within their own research. The purpose of the research is to create a common infrastructure for research and education in order to connect and strengthen the dispersed academic communities of craft research and to establish craft science as a formally recognized discipline within the academic system. © 2020, Intellect Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Lindblad, Linda, et al.
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Re-inventing vernacular log timber knowledge systems for future regenerative building
- 2021
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Ingår i: Proceeding Earthen and wood vernacular heritage and climate change i Lund, Sweden, 29-30 August 2021, Ed. Marwa Dabaieh. - Lund : Malmö högskola. - 9789172674462
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Log timber houses have been a dominant building tradition in Scandinavia with perspective on the past 1000 years. In the last century however this wooden mass wall construction technique and its embedded traditional knowledge has been marginalized, and to a large extent outcompeted by modern insulated framework and concrete construction. A heritage of knowing, building and dwelling has been left behind without advocacy or coherent assessment, for what reason the sustainable qualities of the log timber building is not measured or developed according to the contemporary norms of construction. There are great potentials to re-using traditional knowledge and adapting traditional log timber techniques for future sustainable building.
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- Seiler, Joakim, 1973, et al.
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Ways of Tacit Knowing: A film article
- 2021
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Ingår i: FORMakademisk. 14 (2). - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1890-9515.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A common way to describe craft knowledge is through the figure of speech it's in your hands. With this description, there is no attempt made to explain the complex knowledge which is present in craft. One reason why these explanations are rarely articulated is that they consist of sensory judgments. With this film, Ways of Tacit Knowing, we argue that, with the help of film media, it is possible to decode and articulate some of the knowledge content embodied in craft that is often described as tacit knowledge. We, the producers of this film, are experienced craftspeople, which makes us at once both subjects and objects of the research—a methodology akin to auto-ethnography. In the film, we present examples of situations from practice in our different craft fields: the practice in cultivation and management in gardening and the practice of culinary crafts situated in the kitchen and in the dining room. This film presents a dialogue of knowledge in action with craftspeople who discuss their sensory-based judgments in crafts.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980, et al.
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Bringing a building into being: A Virtual Reality Application as a non-traditional research output
- 2022
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Ingår i: Craft Research. - : Intellect. - 2040-4689 .- 2040-4697. ; 13:2, s. 285-302
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sets out from the digital reconstruction of a historic building and assesses and discusses the use of a Virtual Reality Application as a self-standing research output. Despite the recognized possibilities and the amount of research that goes into the creation of scientific virtual reconstructions, there is still a need for broadly accepted procedures to not only publish them but also incorporate them into the academic systems as research outputs in their own right. The empirical material - a digital reconstruction of a wooden stave church - is here explored as both a hermeneutic device in the research process and a research output. We argue that the use of technology such as virtual reality that can communicate presence is particularly important in research on embodied craft skills and sensory-based judgements to reduce the loss of information in translations between modes, medias and formats. However, to function and have an impact as a research output, new formats have to adapt to fundamental and broadly accepted conventions within academia which have been established by the text-on-paper formats and establish conventions that facilitate access, navigation and referencing.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980, et al.
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Crafting research communication in building history
- 2021
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Ingår i: FORMakademisk. - : OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. - 1890-9515. ; 14, s. 1-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This research is presented through an interactive application. A virtual reconstruction based on the remains from a medieval stave church is used as a case study to re-establish the historic building as a tangible place and assemblage. Augmented by virtual reality, the research focuses on the sensuous aspects of the stave church as a whole-where architecture, artefacts, light, and materials interact-through the movements of approaching, entering, and dwelling. The research output is a virtual reconstruction, or a virtual diorama, that “re-members” the stave church elements and re-contextualises contemporaneous religious artefacts that have been dismembered and diffused in various exhibitions and deposits. The contribution in this research is methodological, seeking to test and provide a case to discuss how non-traditional research outcome can be crafted to elicit the sensuous aspects of research and still attend to the rigor of science. We seek to methodologise the digital artefact as a research output but also as a means for testing hypothesis and observing the effects when enacting the environment. The connection to the craft sciences concerns both the empirical material, the wooden stave church as a crafted object, and the exploration of an interactive application as a research output or hermeneutic device in the research process.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980, et al.
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Digitising Sensitive Heritage Monuments In Antarctica
- 2024
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Ingår i: The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVIII-2/W4-2024. 10th International Workshop 3D-ARCH "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Visualization of Complex Architectures, 21–23 February 2024, Siena, Italy / editor(s): S. Campana, F. Fassi, and F. Remondino. - : International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. - 1682-1750.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the Antarctica expedition CHAQ2020, several cultural heritage sites – remains from the Swedish South Polar Expedition (1901–1903) – were documented using a range of different techniques and technologies. These physical monuments and environments are for all intents and purposes unavailable for most researchers due to their remote location and are also threatened by the effects of climate change. Hence, the deployed documentation techniques and technologies were selected both as a consequence of the inherently difficult conditions in Antarctica, where their reliance, durability, and speed were key considerations, but also for their perceived ability to document the unique and fragile environment. The documentation was carried out with the double intention of both allowing for observations in situ through processes of analytical drawings and data capture, but also capturing the environment as broadly and deeply as possible, in essence making a copy of it open for studies of unknown unknowns, that could serve as a source material for research questions still undefined. Hence, with the documentation of the winter station on Snow Hill Island as a case study, and with a perspective on documentation as a method through which to process, preserve, and disseminate information, this article serves to critically detail, compare, and evaluate the digital techniques and technologies that the expedition deployed to capture architectural elements and spatial contexts, and the data that could be obtained through these.
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