Artisan Modern: Quality Work, Transactions, and Objects
25 April 2021
As they have delivered work from labor and industrial logics, artisans have likewise redeemed materials from their status and calculus as “inputs”.
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Farm and artisan industry succession
13 March 2021
Around the world is a crisis of modernization in which younger generations do not want to inherit the farming and other artisanal work of their families. At the same time, a subculture is burgeoning of young people and ex-office workers who want to work with land, agriculture, food, and traditional production methods.
“Many fights, and many kisses” lifetime tables by MBzwo
20 April 2015
“We try to keep the distance between the customer and the workshop as short as possible…These are objects that I want to be used. And it should be used hard. That’s what they’re made for…Buying a table takes a long time. It takes months….Most of these people are buying the last table for their life…For me it would be a success if the grandchildren still like the table.
Food Sovereignty as a Social Movement (at Sydney Environment Institute)
6 November 2014
So what is the cosmology of food sovereignty? Food is a community, not a commodity… But how do we turn this idea into culture? Alberto Melucci explains how it is that we create culture… through creating new spaces, identities, meanings, identities, commitments….
Lech Wałȩsa and craft labor
14 September 2014
His explanation of his strategic capacities is “I am an electrician.” This reminds me of Matthew Crawford’s painstaking work on the “cognitive riches” of trade labour. (Summary here.) Crawford’s point is that trade work is satisfying. Wałȩsa’s point is that it is also a form of analytic training.
Mehl Stübchen Berlin
11 August 2014
The Mehl Stübchen is a flour factory which creates flours for many specific uses. They sell to home bakers, rather than to businesses, providing advice
The Home Project, Berlin
7 August 2014
Walking through Kreutzberg/Neukölin I was drawn to another minimalist window display of an unlit store in a residential street. Like most entrepreneurs of shops with
Helmut Menzel porcelain at the Berlin Make Markt
3 August 2014
I was going in a different direction, on an arbitrary itinerary when I saw a poster for the Berlin Make Mrkt and figured out that
Markthalle Neun
24 July 2014
In a less gentrified yet part of Kreutzberg is this market described by my favourite local food blogger as “the most interesting food in Berlin”.
Leather Workshop, Dresden
17 July 2014
The Neustadt neighborhood of Dresden, which was rebuilt by artists after the reunification of Germany, has quite a few artisan manufacturers, including shoes and clothes
Apfelgalerie Berlin
12 July 2014
“Usually we are cheaper than the discounters, because there’s no middleman.”
Winterfeldt Market Berlin
12 July 2014
This market was so movingly delicious to eye and sense, that I had to just enjoy it rather than documenting it. Produce, baked goods, prepared foods,
RootStock: natural wine pairing for local food movement
16 March 2014
“People see eggs and they ask ‘are these barn raised or free range raised?’ ‘Are they organic or not?’ It baffles me that wine is not the same. Where did it come from? How was it grown? Is it organic? People should be interested in the process and provenance of wine, the same way they are with food.”
David Flinter’s Permaculture Macadamias
5 August 2013
I first visited this farm when I was 19 in 1979. Shortly thereafter my friend who owned the farm was killed in a car accident.
Local Objects exhibit at Gaffa
5 August 2013
exhibit: Local Objects artist: Amory Starr gallery: Gaffa, 281 Clarence Street context: Sydney Design Week 2013 run: 25 July – 5 August. opening: 25 July
John Talbot Woodworks (and Poetry)
1 July 2013
I was a contractor. I bought a hobby lathe on sale. I burned out the motor in 6 months, so I knew I had found
Maaike Furniture Resurrection
1 July 2013
This piece was a curbside find from the South Coast. My sister has developed a habit of txting me when she sees things. It was
Wendy Neale on Sustainable Furniture
1 July 2013
At the centre of my design interventions is the idea of working in the margins, on the edge, in the spaces between. “Embodiment” refers to
Lessons of the Local Food Movement at Vivid Sydney
26 May 2013
I was invited to speak at Design your Day Job, organized by &Company, part of Vivid Ideas 2013. 25 May 2013 Sydney Australia I’m new to
Building an artisan economics movement
16 November 2012
To build a movement, we need to spread the idea, far beyond the subculture which has nurtured it. We need to translate to older and
The cognitive riches of artisanship and craft labor
29 October 2012
Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. 2009: Penguin Books. If the regard that many people now have
It’s happening, musicians are figuring it out
3 August 2012
Musicians, hackers, and writers are in mess right now, because they love making stuff and they want to share it, but the internet makes everything
What to call the new economics
26 July 2012
I’ve been talking with the awesome Charles Heying, author of Brew to Bikes (2010) about naming this movement. Is it: slow: “seeking to do everything at
The Integrity Economy
16 June 2012
I don’t usually eat meusli, but my body targeted its cravings that way last week, and I follow. I found a beautiful one, and expensive,
How a dinner party can change the economy … Underground Restaurant: Local Food, Artisan Economics, Creative Political Culture
6 June 2012
Table of Contents An Underground Restaurant: Local Food, Artisan Economics, and Creative Political Culture 1 Not a potluck: is it food? is it performance art?
What kind of economist are you?
2 June 2012
I use to teach economics. Now I’m a professional artist and I teach. Often I spend 4 hours preparing a class that earns $50. My
Wendy Neale, Maker
22 July 2010
Interview by Tara Robertson in World Sweet World Issue #07 Original here: World Sweet World: Issue #07 67 STORY TIME: WENDY NEALE: MAKER She is
The Local Objects Manifesto
13 April 2008
I’ve been writing about the ravages of globalization and peoples’ ferocious rejection of its conditions for a long time. I researched and wrote about the
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