> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Reference:: https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart > Date:: 2024 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Social value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft is a collective activity that forges trust and belonging]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > The Milan 2024 conference of European Group for Organisation Studies proposes that social values are fundamentally embodied in any craft object that is made or enjoyed. ### Highlights > While craft industries are frequently used as interesting research sites, we have yet to fully appreciate how the notion of craft can help us understand relevant alternative approaches to organizing work and production in modern society. Indeed, craft movements that revive traditional making skills in manufacturing do not merely provide a lucrative market niche, but can elicit field-wide transformation by improving social, environmental, and economic conditions. > It is clear that craft already plays an important, if complicated, role in contemporary society: sometimes producing, sometimes impeding innovation; bringing back "old" forms and tasks of employment, or combining them with and generating new employment opportunities; and increasing connectedness and satisfaction from work. Not only can craft make work more humane and meaningful, it can also contribute to the amelioration of social, economic, and environmental ills by generating sustainable approaches to both production and organization. > Understood in this light, craft appears fundamentally associated with the promotion of both aesthetic and social goals, so that social values are fundamentally embodied in any craft object that is made or enjoyed.