serial - individual: craftsmanship in design

Do it yourself, self-work, analogue, new craft, social crafting, craft punk. - Crafts have enjoyed renewed relevance for some time, especially in connection with design issues. Since the beginning of industrialization, crafts and design have been in a contradictory relationship with each other: they are set apart from each other, and they also relate to each other. Crafts have served both as a positive and a negative counterpart to design for series, appeared obsolete from a design perspective, and then again as a remedy for the excesses of industrial society. This anthology examines from very different perspectives how the new appreciation of crafts in post-industrial, digitalized society can be explained, whether there are historical continuities or parallels, what current trends in design practice and discourse are associated with it, and not least what conclusions this has for current social issues.