[[KHC Newsletter]] # March news 🏠 [[Oracle Bone Characters Relating to Building.jpeg|Open: Pasted image 20240313163106.png]] ![[Oracle Bone Characters Relating to Building.jpeg]] --- <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Oracle Bone Characters Relating to Building, Elevating them Above the Ground while Protecting them Under a Gabled Roof</em>, Shang Dynasty, c. 1600 BC – c. 1045 B.C</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><h2>Knowledge House for Craft</h2><p dir="ltr">Dear consortium members, Knowledge House for Craft’s friends and advocates!</p><p dir="ltr">This is our seventh newsletter: the roving editors of this sixth issue greet you, and hope the following offerings meet your interest.</p><p dir="ltr">The Knowledge House has grown from an informal gathering to an active knowledge-building and sharing platform, with a <a href="https://knowledgehouseforcraft.org/About" data-link-id="114751844959389384">board</a>, a growing network of <a href="https://knowledgehouseforcraft.org/About" data-link-id="114751844964632265">member associations</a>, and consortium participants.</p><p dir="ltr">Our <a href="https://knowledgehouseforcraft.org/Projects/Manifesto" data-link-id="114751844967777994">manifesto </a>has guided our activities to date. The <a href="https://knowledgehouseforcraft.org/" data-link-id="114751844970923723">vault </a>is a place where a dynamic group of volunteers store articles related to craft and provide House guests with a summary of its key points.<br></p><p dir="ltr">Best regards from the roving editorial team,</p><p dir="ltr">Peta Clancy, Tricia Flanagan &amp; Aarti Kawlra</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><div><table role="presentation"><tbody><tr><th><a href="https://knowledgehouseforcraft.org/" target="_self" data-link-id="114751844975118028">Visit</a></th></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><h2>New to our Vault</h2><p dir="ltr">Recent additions to our vault include:</p><p dir="ltr">Claims as part of the Value of Craft Project</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Working with your hands stimulates mental development</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Craft plays an important role in prisons</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Craft can be an effective means of communication</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - The physical manipulation of materials can help solve an abstract problem</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Makers are creative</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Craft materials have beneficial medical properties</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Craft improves mental health, particularly after trauma</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Claim - Hand skills play a role in medical procedures</p></li></ul><p dir="ltr">World Craft Dictionary</p><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">UNESCO definition of craft</p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Iranian words for craft</p></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table> ## Activities from the network members Board member Ben Lignel is co-organizer of the forthcoming [Festival de Ceramique de Paris 11](https://www.festivaldeceramique.com/), a yearly festival dedicated to contemporary clay practices. The satellite programme of this 17th edition of this event will focus on the long-standing exchanges that exist between the culinary and ceramic worlds. Chefs and cooks, it turns out, often engage with ceramists in long and fruitful cookware and tableware development. A series of round tables will host chefs and their collaborators, and question how the pursuits of the good and the beautiful might intersect. On behalf of the [[Humanities Across Borders]] program, board member Aarti Kawlra is co-organising the three-day event titled **"Youth Cartographies: A Methodologies Workshop",** co-hosted by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden and the French Institute, Pondicherry, (IFP) from **March 11-14, 2024** in Pondicherry, India. The Workshop brings together urban practitioners and scholars working on geographies of young people’s aspirations and anxieties, as they are articulated in different spaces of social interaction and expression, be they urban, rural, coastal, pastoral or digital. Over the three days, participants will share their experience of engagement with youth in different socio-ecological and political contexts, whilst focusing on the variety of experiential techniques used with a special emphasis on cartography and embodied methodologies. Kevin Murray and Laila Al-Hamad convened a workshop for Saudi Heritage Commission on how its heritage might engage with a global conversation about craft. We witnessed many new organisations and leaders dedicated to supporting craft heritage, demonstrating its significance for Saudi nationalism and the core value of “quality of life” in Vision 2030. <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><h2>Suggested readings/ films</h2><h3 dir="ltr"><strong>Recent book publications</strong></h3><p dir="ltr">Tyson Yunkaporta <a href="https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/right-story-wrong-story-adventures-in-indigenous-thinking" data-link-id="114751844981409487"><em>Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking</em></a> (2023) Text Publishing. Yunkaporta continues this methdology of thinking-making by basing each chapter on an object he is making. The steel boomerang is particularly profound for its teaching about post-colonialism.</p><p dir="ltr">The chapter <a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003272090-3/architecture-question-technology-dalibor-vesely-alexandra-stara-peter-carl" data-link-id="114751844984555216">‘Architecture and the Question of Technology’</a> in the posthumously published <em>The Latent World of Architecture</em> by renowned architecture historian &amp; theorist Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015) brings great clarity to understanding the interrelationship between making &amp; technology (<em>poeisis</em> &amp; <em>techne</em>), through its examination of their ancient Greek conceptions, which is especially pertinent with the emergence of A.I.</p><p dir="ltr"><strong><em>開雀籠 </em></strong><a href="http://www.instagram.com/openbirdcages/" data-link-id="114751844987700945"><strong><em>OPEN BIRDCAGES</em></strong></a> by Dylan Kwok</p><p dir="ltr">Published in late 2023, this book introduces the unique culture of raising birds in Hong Kong by deconstructing the craftsmanship of bird cages. As a result, it brings out the aesthetics of bird cages and the industry ecology related to them. Since 2019, the author, designer Dylan Kwok, has learned the cage-making craft from Master Chan Lok Choi, the only remaining bird cage craftsman and inheritor of this Hong Kong intangible cultural heritage.</p><p dir="ltr">Recommended Film</p><p dir="ltr"><a href="https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/oxhide" data-link-id="114751844991895250"><strong><em>牛皮 Oxhide</em></strong></a> directed by Liu Jiayin, is an award-winning independent Chinese film released in 2005 that portrays the daily life of a family in their apartment in Beijing. Made when the director was 23 years old, with family members taking on the role of actors, its central theme focuses on concepts of measure, of how we value things from raw materials to human relationships and the gamut in between.</p><p dir="ltr">Recommended exhibition:</p><p dir="ltr"><strong><span><a href="https://www.airside.com.hk/en/happenings/the-local-dragon-quest-exhibition" data-link-id="114751844995040979">The Local Dragon Quest Exhibition</a></span></strong></p><p dir="ltr">Address: Gate33 Gallery, AIRSIDE, Hong Kong</p><p dir="ltr">Ends on 12.03.2024</p><p dir="ltr">An exhibition themed around the Chinese zodiac Dragon, engaged a range of craftspeople and artists to display the local folklore of the dragon. Featured in the exhibition included the local veteran woodcarver Mr. Siu Ping Keung, who in the 1980s meticulously carved the wood, applied lacquer, and gilded the iconic piece in "The Local Dragon Quest" Dragon and Phoenix Grand Hall, creating a magnificent and auspicious representation of the dragon and phoenix, symbolizing harmony and prosperity.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><h2>Opportunities for the network</h2><p dir="ltr">The Oslo-based non-for-profit <a href="https://www.praksisoslo.org/residencies" data-link-id="114751844997138132">Praksis</a> residency program, led by Nicholas John Jones, offers month-long international residencies to anyone whose practice and interests matches the residency’s given theme. The 27th residency, to take place in August/September this year, is called <a href="https://www.praksisoslo.org/residencieslist/2024/2/r28-your-pleasure-our-pain-the-ethics-of-luxury" data-link-id="114751845001332437"><em>Your Pleasure, Our Pain</em></a><em>. </em>It will look at extraction and production practices in the jewelry trade in order to research into, and raise awareness of, the urgent issues surrounding the luxury industry. (please note, dear French reader, that this residency is supported by the Institut français de Norvège, who will sponsor a place for a French participant.)</p><p dir="ltr">The Department of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University is currently advertising for an ambitious <a href="https://manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy/7158/description?_channelid=12" data-link-id="114751845004478166">Professor in Craft</a> to bolster, lead and contribute to future research aims and goals.</p><p dir="ltr"><strong>Closing Date:</strong> Sunday 24 March 2024</p><p><strong>Interview Date:</strong> Monday 29 April 2024</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><td><h2>Reinventing the Wheel</h2></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><img src="https://storage.mlcdn.com/account_image/442815/svhojbjdqZch0rHh_rodgers_fig7.3_rotated-1-1024x681.jpg" alt="" width="540"></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Efficacious Intimacy ✿ Learnings from the Jugaad Project</strong><br></p><p>You are invited to join our next discussion about the embodied practice of world-making in contexts of craft and beyond.<br>12 March 2024, 18:00 (New York time). Register on <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUud-yrqD0sHNbCkWc2iEgP6KoDsqY_QHF5" rel="noopener" target="_blank" data-link-id="114751845007623895">Zoom</a>.<br>More information: <a href="https://garlandmag.com/loop/efficacious-intimacy/" data-link-id="114751845012866776">https://garlandmag.com/loop/efficacious-intimacy/</a>&nbsp;</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table> <table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td><table><tbody><tr><td>Knowledge House for Craft 6 Blyth Street, Brunswick<br>Australia</td><td></td><td><p>You received this email because you signed up on our website or made a purchase from us.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table>