> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Ayush Kasliwal > Reference:: https://garlandmag.com/loop/a-manifesto-for-craft-in-space-design/ > Date:: 2023-09-12 > Tags:: #warp/talk > WeftLinks:: [[Reinventing the Wheel]] > [[Creative value of craft]] > [[Question - What is the role of the handmade in an industrial society]] > [[Question - What does it matter where craft is made]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > It is the responsibility of space designers to provide a dignified setting for Indian crafts, which has capacity to evoke deep connections. ### Highlights [Ayush Kasliwal](https://akfdstudio.com/) spoke about the important contribution of crafts to life in India. He claimed that "India is home to one of the largest maker communities in the world." >The world often looks at India as a land of 4 billion people. I look at India as a land of 2.8 billion hands. However, he argued that we are now on the cusp of change due to a caste system that places craftspersons lower in the hierarchy. It now has trouble sustaining its capacity. >Many crafts as simple as making a straight brick wall, are becoming an increasing challenge to find. Ayush sees the role of space design to change preconceptions about craft. He showed works that demonstrated how craft can be scaled up to spectacular proportions. This involves incredible precision of making. In response to the question about the introduction of class difference in the factory setting, Ayush responded: >Does the maker have the choice? Is the practice of craft something that the maker is doing, because he has no other skill or he has no other option, or is he doing or he is he or she doing it willfully? That is really the question we need to address and here it is not just making that we get him to make something but also how much are we remunerating them for it? How are we treating them with respect? Are we making them wait indefinitely to get a payment?... we sit together and travel in the same bus. In response to a question the lack of appreciation of craft in some countries, Ayush responded: >If a person's has never, you know, touched a needle and thread. How would they ever appreciate a kanta embroidery? So the question is not just a craft product being available, but a craftsperson inside each one of us having lived or died. An artisan I met, he put it in a in a very nice way. He said, have hands will make. And I think it's so beautiful that if people have hands, why not handmade? And if everybody were to just do as much as you know, darn a sock or stitch on a broken button, there is a craftsperson inside each one of them. ![[Craft interiors, Ayush Kasliwal.pdf]] <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WJpDx9dJfH0?si=xPEW4tlixEiuiZsT" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>