All Discussions Tagged 'resistance craft' - crafthaus2024-03-28T21:47:25Zhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/group/craftforwardsymposiumaskharriete/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=resistance+craft&feed=yes&xn_auth=noResistance Craft with High Voltage and Low Resonance includes Otto von Busch, Liz Collins, Teddy Cruztag:crafthaus.ning.com,2011-05-10:2104389:Topic:2365712011-05-10T15:37:10.002ZHarriete E Bermanhttp://crafthaus.ning.com/profile/HarrieteEstelBerman
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1058043385?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1058043385?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"></img></a> <span class="font-size-5"><strong>Resistance Craft</strong></span> <strong>was the last session of Craft Forward.</strong> <br></br>Faster, FASTER, <span style="font-size: 11pt;">FASTER</span>. <br></br>Read this post at a frenetic pace to feel the increasing speed of delivery of the next three speakers<strong>. <br></br></strong></p>
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<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1058043385?profile=original"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1058043385?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a><span class="font-size-5"><strong>Resistance Craft</strong></span> <strong>was the last session of Craft Forward.</strong> <br/>Faster, FASTER, <span style="font-size: 11pt;">FASTER</span>. <br/>Read this post at a frenetic pace to feel the increasing speed of delivery of the next three speakers<strong>. <br/></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span class="font-size-6">Summary</span> <span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401543228ee83970c-popup"><img class="align-left" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401543228ee83970c-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a><a href="http://craftforward.org/speakers/otto-von-busch/" target="_blank" title="otto von Busch speaker for craft Forward"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Otto von Busch</span></a></strong> opened his remarks with a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4" target="_blank" title="video from You Tube about a Flooded Fire Ant Colony">video from YouTube about Flood of a Fire Ant Colony</a>. This was followed by additional images of TROPHALLAXIS ants and butterflies all serving as metaphors for various subgroups of the craft community and more specifically the social structure of the web. </p>
<p><strong>His lecture was fast and confusing</strong> (as his <strong><a href="http://www.selfpassage.org/" target="_blank" title="web site for Otto von Busch">web site</a></strong>). We were trying to hold on to a rambling train of thought from one idea to the next. The lectures was rushed and unorganized, a product of writing the lecture in your hotel room at night.</p>
<p><strong>As entertaining and irreverent</strong> as it was, I was somewhat disappointed.</p>
<p><strong>Instead of conveying a few cohesive thoughts</strong> for us to take home, I found about twenty partially filled thought bubbles in my notes.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401543228f436970c-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401543228f436970c-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a><strong>Having met Otto von Busch on the first night,</strong> I had higher expectations....it seemed he could be one of the lecturers who would <em>really talk about craft going forward in the 21st century.</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://craftforward.org/speakers/liz-collins/" target="_blank" title="Liz Collins"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></strong></a><strong><a href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e88498b33970d-popup" style="float: right;"><img alt="Lizcollinsfashion" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e55107d1448834014e88498b33970d" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e88498b33970d-200wi" style="border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 200px;" title="Lizcollinsfashion"/></a></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="font-size-5"><a href="http://craftforward.org/speakers/liz-collins/" target="_blank" title="Liz Collins">Liz Collins</a></span></span></strong> started her lecture with <a href="http://www.lizcollins.com/seasons.html" target="_blank" title="fashion season by Liz Collins.">background about her professional foray into knit fashion</a>. Ultimately, after a few years, the pressures of the industry (listed below) proved to be too much.</p>
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<li>Building a brand</li>
<li>Producing collections</li>
<li>Fashion roller coaster</li>
<li>Developing prototypes</li>
<li>Demands of buyers</li>
<li>Demands of multiples</li>
<li>Production schedules</li>
<li>Seasonal demands</li>
<li>Economic problems</li>
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<p><a href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884fd6dc970d-popup" style="float: left;"><img alt="LizCollins1eo" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e55107d1448834014e884fd6dc970d" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884fd6dc970d-200wi" style="border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;" title="LizCollins1eo"/></a> <strong>While looking for a job as a designer</strong>, she started teaching, which then opened yet another new range of opportunities, perhaps most significantly, <a href="http://www.lizcollins.com/kn.html" target="_blank" title="knitting nation">KNITTING Nation.</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d14488340154322f5a03970c-popup" style="float: left;"><img alt="LizCollins3eo" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e55107d14488340154322f5a03970c" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d14488340154322f5a03970c-200wi" style="border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;" title="LizCollins3eo"/></a> <strong>This was another example of community, craftivism and knitting at the Craft Forward Symposium.</strong> I wonder how hard it was for Liz Collins to acknowledge to herself and then to this audience, that the project amounted to making the maker into a machine. More people, more noise, more management of physically demanding and repetitive work sitting at knitting machines. (<a href="http://www.lizcollins.com/kn.html" target="_blank" title="Knitting Nation">Read more about Knitting Nation</a> if you're interested.)</p>
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<p><strong>The final speaker <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Teddy Cruz</span> spoke even faster</strong> <em>(think the FED Ex commercial shown below).</em> <strong> </strong><em>Craft Forward was at full throttle right to the finish line.</em> Yet another example of a 45 minute lecture squeezed into 30 minutes.<br/><br/><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NeK5ZjtpO-M" frameborder="0" height="302" width="368"></iframe>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d14488340154322f5c03970c-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d14488340154322f5c03970c-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> <br/> <a href="http://socialdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/teddy-cruz/" target="_blank" title="Teddy Cruz web site for social change"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Teddy Cruz</span> as architect, designer, anthropologist and urban planner</strong></a>, explained how the discards of over-abundance from the United States crosses the border into Mexico. <a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5ca04f970b-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5ca04f970b-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> The issues of reuse, urban plight, ingenuity, zoning problems and weak government are all intertwined as truck loads of shipping pallets, garage doors, and used tires are hauled across the border.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884ff049970d-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884ff049970d-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a><strong>Teddy Cruz expressed one point of view for a complex social, economic, political, zoning, environmental & immigration issue.</strong> The topic is not a one-liner or 20 minute summary.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884ff642970d-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884ff642970d-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> <strong>I appreciated the information and would consider it a fascinating topic for a documentary or PBS special,</strong> but it was not craft, nor craft forward.</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5c8b94970b-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5c8b94970b-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> Watch the video <em>below,</em></strong> <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlOWZfaat0" target="_blank" title="A City Made of Waste with Teddy Cruz">A City Made of Waste</a></em>, as it includes images and information very similar to his presentation at the Craft Forward Symposium. You will get the idea right away even without Teddy Cruz" commentary. It shows construction in Mexico using re-purposed materials and transformed into houses, workshops, and retaining walls.</p>
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<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884fdf21970d-popup"><img class="align-left" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884fdf21970d-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> Teddy Cruz has a very idealistic vision of urban planning that doesn't fit with the current reality. </strong> While I agree that more planning, zoning, and coordinated communities would be better for everyone, the Mexican urban poor have desperately, sometimes ingeniously, utilized low cost building solutions. Bigger issues include lack of government oversight, <a href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/ask_harriete/2011/04/craft-forward-symposium-crafting-the-politics-of-identity-with-nancy-hernandez.html" target="_blank" title=""Crafting the Politics of Identity" with Water Writes by Nancy Hernandez">clean water distribution</a>, the absence of sewage systems and waste management.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What were the thought provoking issues raised?</strong></span> The underlying theme of <em>community</em> at Craft Forward seemed to view "craft" with a particularly skewed perspective. A perspective that community making is somehow the true essence of craft. This perspective does not jive with the craft realities that I see at academic institutions, the craft marketplace, or pressing economic issues raised by artists and makers in their studios or on the Internet.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Background about the speakers (below).</strong></span></p>
<p>The web site for <strong><a href="http://www.selfpassage.org/" target="_blank" title="Otto von Busch web site">Otto von Busch</a></strong> is very confusing, While I applaud innovative web design, this is information overload and just confusing. More white space would help considerably. Check it out for yourself, but let go of any expectation for easy website navigation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lizcollins.com/about.html" target="_blank" title="Liz Collins web site"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884fec25970d-popup"><img class="align-left" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d1448834014e884fec25970d-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> <strong>Liz Collins</strong> has an interesting website about her work as an artist and designer. It is evident by the background of knitted fabric that this is an important theme. She is recognized internationally for her use of machine knitting to create ground breaking clothing, textiles, and installations.</p>
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<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5c9bde970b-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5c9bde970b-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> <a href="http://www.informalism.net/2008_11_16_archive.html" target="_blank" title="blog about Teddy Cruz urban planning agenda">Teddy Cruz has a blog with more information</a> </strong> about his urban planning objectives. <em> </em>It is definitely worth reading if you're interested in these issues. <br/><br/> <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5cbbd5970b-popup"><img class="align-right" src="http://askharriete.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55107d144883401538e5cbbd5970b-200wi?width=200" width="200"/></a> There are two additional videos with Teddy Cruz on YouTube</strong> offering information about the issues he presented at Craft Forward. The videos and the information is interesting.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0saEe0caJ8" target="_blank" title="Teddy Cruz Border Cities: Tactics of Encroachment">Listen to Border Cities: Tactics of Encroachment</a> 56:53 minutes</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKusHz9J-w" target="_blank" title="Teddy Cruz presentation on You Tube">Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice</a> 6:52 minutes</p>
<p><strong>Special Thanks to <a href="http://www.rewarestyle.com/home.html" target="_blank" title="emiko oye">emiko oye</a> for supplying many images in this blog post.</strong></p>
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