An Evening of Craft, Digitality, and Critical Reflection

Join the Craft and the Digital Turn team for a thought-provoking panel discussion emerging from the SSHRC funded international partnership development initiative, “Thinking through Craft and the Digital Turn” (CDT). This event brings together an international collective of educators, makers and researchers who will share insights from their involvement in the project and their individual practices.

We will hear from Dr. Cynthia Villagómez (University of Guanajuato, MX) who will discuss the role of technology in traditional craft processes through the community initiative Fábrica de Artes y Oficios. Geoffery Mann (Manchester School of Art, UK) will speak about his twenty-year trajectory engaging with emergent technologies and craft processes  and Dr. Niklavs Rubenis (University of Tasmania, AU) will reflect on a pilot project that connects the creative sector with the waste industry. The conversation will explore the dynamic intersection of contemporary craft and digital technologies, touching on themes of community, the economic dimensions of craft, and the transformative potential of digital tools. The speakers will consider how digitality enables new forms of fluidity, reinterpretation, and the way that we can reuse, reinterpret, and repair our crafted world.

This talk is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada (SSHRC) and OCAD University through a Partnership Development Grant.