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Abstract This report accompanies my Master project in the fields of ceramic and glass, the CRAFT! MA program, Konstfack. In this project I fuse my industrial design toolbox and my current engagement in open-source 3D printing technology with my ceramic and glass craft practice. The first pair brings in notions of innovation and an active approach towards technological change, while the second carry ancient craft methods and knowledge. I develop and make 3D printers for clay and use them as an experimental ceramic work method. In this research based practice I use ceramics as the material for 3D printed glassblowing moulds. This act represents a link between ceramic and glass crafts, one that was known to the ancient Roman craftsmen.  A view on craft and digital innovation Although the computer is in use for several decades now, in most crafts it is still used mainly as an assistive device and we seem not to look at it as a professional tool; as a craft tool. New methods of making are out there. We need to have two toolboxes now: Our traditional one and our new digital one. We can already CAD our concepts, control CNC machines and build 3D-printers customised to our growing new practice. We share our new knowledge on open-source platforms, teach each other through the web (and around the globe) how to apply digital techniques to our craft. We now have the opportunity to join hands with the movements of democratisation of contemporary manufacturing techniques and reinvent our practice, our tools and what new-craft could be.

1 Abstract The Buquoy aristocratic family is a branch of the Longueval family that has origins in current France. The Buquoys arrived in Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the thirty years' war when Charles Bonaventure was called in to fight Bohemian Protestants. Soon after, he received an estate in the Southern Bohemia from Ferdinand II where he and his descendants stayed nearly three and a half centuries. The Buquoys soon extended their opulent estates by Prague palaces and few regions in the North Bohemia. They contributed to advances in agriculture, glassblowing and in the area of social and scholar reforms. They were also engaged in politics and became important patrons of culture and arts. Nevertheless, the Buquoys suffered the same fate as other aristocratic families. In the beginning of the 19th century, they started losing their privileges and estates and, in 1945, they were expelled from Czechoslovakia based on Beneš decrees concerning retribution. The aim of this thesis is to point out the cultural legacy which Buquoys left behind in the current Czech Republic and to describe their overall contribution in particular areas. The thesis is divided into two chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to the general picture and to the history of aristocratic families in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown...

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Denna kandidatuppsats inom ämnet kulturvård, behandlar Glasriket, ett område i sydöstra Småland där det funnits en koncentration av glasbruk, glashyttor och glasverkstäder sedan 1800-talet. Studiens syfte är att ge en bild av glashantverksutövares uppfattning av sitt hantverk och yrke, idag och i ett framtidsperspektiv. I uppsatsen redogörs för Glasrikets historiska utveckling samt en inventering av de glasbruk, glashyttor och glasverkstäder som funnits i Glasriket mellan 1742–2023. I uppsatsen presenteras en intervjustudie som genomförts med sex glashantverkare, som är verksamma i Glasriket. / This bachelors thesis in Cultural Studies, is about The Kingdom of Crystal, a part of the southeast of Sweden, called Småland, where a large amount of glass factories has been established since the 19th century. The purpose of the study is to describe glass-craftsmen and women and their perspective in regard to their profession, today and of the future. A summary of the historical development of The Kingdom of Crystal is included in the thesis, as well as an inventory of the glass factories and other glass- related businesses in The Kingdom of Crystal between 1742–2023. The thesis includes an interview study with six different glass-craftsmen and women, active in The Kingdom of Crystal.