Dezembro 2021 vol. 9 num. 5 - 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research

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The connotations of ‘Value’ in heritage crafts, and their relevance to a skill-based education towards knowledge economic systems

The connotations of ‘Value’ in heritage crafts, and their relevance to a skill-based education towards knowledge economic systems

Alvelos, Heitor ; Chatterjee, Abhishek ;

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The present article addresses various connotations of “Value” as present in contemporary material culture and heritage crafts. The authors posit that “Value” is undergoing a process of re-signification that is semantically reductive, brought to tacitly invoke strict monetary gain; we argue that this bears adverse effects in terms of perception and action towards other consequential values related to craft. The article discusses further value significations of crafts, and addresses how embedded specialised skills can become key to configuring knowledge-based economic systems based in creative human enterprise. Correspondingly, the research argues for practice-based learning of craft techniques in Design schools as an interface towards a pedagogy of valuation based on unmediated experience - and consequent replicable pathways for sustaining the validity and applicability of heritage industries.

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The present article addresses various connotations of “Value” as present in contemporary material culture and heritage crafts. The authors posit that “Value” is undergoing a process of re-signification that is semantically reductive, brought to tacitly invoke strict monetary gain; we argue that this bears adverse effects in terms of perception and action towards other consequential values related to craft. The article discusses further value significations of crafts, and addresses how embedded specialised skills can become key to configuring knowledge-based economic systems based in creative human enterprise. Correspondingly, the research argues for practice-based learning of craft techniques in Design schools as an interface towards a pedagogy of valuation based on unmediated experience - and consequent replicable pathways for sustaining the validity and applicability of heritage industries.

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Palavras-chave: Heritage Crafts, Knowledge Transfer, Design Research, Design Semantics,

Palavras-chave: Heritage Crafts, Knowledge Transfer, Design Research, Design Semantics,

DOI: 10.5151/ead2021-130

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Alvelos, Heitor; Chatterjee, Abhishek; "The connotations of ‘Value’ in heritage crafts, and their relevance to a skill-based education towards knowledge economic systems ", p. 457-466 . In: 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research. São Paulo: Blucher, 2021.
ISSN 2318-6968, DOI 10.5151/ead2021-130

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