Collaboration Through Craft

1. Collaboration Tthrough Craft: An Introduction
Amanda Ravetz, Alice Kettle and Helen Felcey

Part 1: Modes of collaborating
2. Collaboration: A Creative Journey or a Means to an End?
Lesley Millar
3. Making Anew... Collaboration and Dynamic Change
Helen Carnac
4. Triangulation Theory, Working as Three
Jane Webb, David Gates, Alice Kettle
5. The Creation of a Collective Voice
Brass Art: Chara Lewis, Kristin Mojsiewicz, Anneké Pettican

Part 2: The Generative Power of Craft
6. Catalytic Clothing and Tactility Factory: Crafted Collaborative Connections
Trish Belford
7. The Aesthetic of Waste: Exploring the Creative Potential of Re-cycled Ceramic Waste
David Binns
8. Designing Collaboration: Evoking Dr Johnson Through Craft and Interdisciplinarity
Jason Cleverly, Tim Shear
9. Skinship: An Exchange of Material Understanding Between Plastic Surgery and Pattern Cutting
Rhian Solomon

Part 3: Institutional Collaborations
10. Department 21: The Craft of Discomfort
Stephen Knott
11. Skills in the Making
Simon Taylor, Rachel Payne
12. Project Dialogue
Barbara Hawkins and Brett Wilson
13. A Question of Value: Re-thinking the Mary Greg Collection
Sharon Blakey and Liz Mitchell

Part 4: Collaboration in an Emerging World
14. Expanded Battle Fields
Allison Smith
15. Crafts and the Contemporary in South Asia
Barney Hare Duke & Jeremy Theophilus
16. Circling Back Into That Thing We Cast Forward
Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton
17. Craft Knowledge and the Craft of Human Life: A South Asian Residency
CJ O'Neill and Amanda Ravetz

18. Epilogue: A Response
Glenn Adamson

Amanda Ravetz is Senior Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Alice Kettle is Senior Research Fellow at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Helen Felcey is Programme Leader for MA Design at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Nothing is ever made without collaboration. Yet we continue to believe that every work is the product of a single hand. This book turns the belief in single-handed creation on its head. It shows that collaboration is not incidental to the crafting of things but the very power that drives it forward. Together, the contributors succeed in raising craft from its backward-looking association with traditional skills to where it belongs, as a dynamic, generative principle at the core of social and cultural life. -- Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK This book is a compelling critical appraisal of the friction and risk in collaboration, posing new forms of collaborative expertise through craft that are both challenging and immensely productive. These 16 chapters have deep relevance to makers in art, design, and craft as well as educators and practitioners within any field where working together is essential. This is an extraordinary resource! -- Anne Wilson, Professor Department of Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Collaboration Through Craft is a ground-breaking book. It sets out what we have known for some time but nobody has yet articulated - that the crafts are distinguished by their collaborative nature and the willingness of makers to share experience, knowledge and skills. From its insightful introduction, which eloquently sets the context for craft as a collaborative process and experience, this book's collection of essays maps the hugely diverse territory of contemporary crafts via the framing mechanism of collaboration. -- Matthew Partington, V&A Museum Senior Research Fellow (Applied Arts), University of West England, UK and Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK