Digital fabrication and revival craft in Latin America: Alliance between designers and artisans

Description

Latin America has experienced scripting and digital fabrication, and the alliance between designers
and artisans. Taking into account that the revival of crafts has proved very promising in
Latin America (Borges, 2015), the objective of this research is to analyse the diversity of cases
and select those where designers took an interest for strengthening the artisans’ jobs in the
field of pottery and textiles. We found that both revitalised the identity and cultural tradition in
their own countries, in a moment when craft seemed to drop in front of industrial production. By
preserving traditional materials, pieces continue to be unique and customizable, transcending
thus their local origin towards new global markets.

Links & Downloads

1. Herrara, Pablo C.; "Digital fabrication and revival craft in Latin America: Alliance between designers and artisans", p. 291-295 . In: Wong, Wendy Siuyi; Kikuchi, Yuko & Lin, Tingyi (Eds.). Making Trans/National Contemporary Design History [=ICDHS 2016 – 10th Conference of the International Committee for Design History & Design Studies]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2016
2. 10.5151/despro-icdhs2016-03_019
3. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/621007
4. http://repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe/upc/handle/10757/621007

Tags

Digital craft

Latin America

fabrication laboratories

artisan

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/621007
Date	10 1900
Creators	Herrera Polo, Pablo C.
Contributors	[e-mail]
Publisher	Blucher Design Proceedings
Source Sets	Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)
Language	Spanish
Detected Language	English
Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Source	Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Académico - UPC
Rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation	http://www.proceedings.blucher.com.br/article-details/24204