A recent history of the handmade: from modern craft to post-craft, from making to growing
Rossi, Catharine (2026) A recent history of the handmade: from modern craft to post-craft, from making to growing. Ferrum. ISSN 2297-1211 (In Press)
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This article explores the resurgence of hands-on making in the contemporary craft revival, highlighting designers and architects willing to get their hands dirty as a critical riposte to a hands-off world. Rooted in design history, and using concepts of modern craft and post-craft, it explores concepts of craft as a way to think through low tech, and vice versa—how to use the low tech to think through craft. To this end, it identifies three interrelated terrains of historical and contemporary crossover: the technical, the ideological, and the environmental. Finally, it considers how contemporary design’s interest in low-tech, craft-based approaches has translated more recently into not just making, but growing objects and buildings.
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