Ten Years Before and After
Lecture to the Chicago Institute of Art 3 October 2007 as part of a series associated with the Object of Labor publication An evaluation of the role played by collectives in recent craft It’s a great pleasure to be back in Chicago. I was shocked to realise that it has been ten years since I [...]
Craft Unbound introduction
CRAFT UNBOUND: MAKE THE COMMON PRECIOUS (Melbourne: Thames & Hudson, 2005) By Kevin Murray Introduction There was once a familiar order to things. On one side was the supermarket and on the other was the art gallery. There was the world of common things to be used up and discarded, and the realm of precious [...]
Sangam – Australia-India Design Platform
1. A Platform for Creative Partnership The Australia-India Design Platform is a three-year program of parallel forums, workshops and pilot study. It aims to build a common understanding between Australia and India about how designers and artisans might work productively together. This platform is a step towards the development of a Code of Practice for [...]
Do you want ethics with that? New platforms for designing trust
Keynote for ConnectED Conference, University of New South Wales June 2010 My apologies first. This is not an academic paper. I won’t bring you an exciting new theory or methodology. What I hope to offer you is an emerging context for design. As the Beninese philosopher Paulin Hountondji says, ‘culture is not only a heritage, [...]
