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Contemporary craft and cultural sustainability: a case study of the Scottish Craft Centre (1970-1990). (2013)
Journal Article
PEACH, A. 2013. Contemporary craft and cultural sustainability: a case study of the Scottish Craft Centre (1970-1990). Making futures journal [online], 3: proceedings of the 3rd Making futures international research conference: interfaces between craft knowledge and design: new opportunities for social innovation and sustainable practice, 26-27 September 2013, Torpoint, UK, pages 524-529. Available from: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n2tXWhwnr37F23cWIjX5nEmISQS2Rud7

1970-1990 was a period of renaissance for the crafts in the UK and North America. The creation of national organisations and infrastructures to support craft, and define its identity, played a crucial role. It is often assumed that Scottish craft his... Read More about Contemporary craft and cultural sustainability: a case study of the Scottish Craft Centre (1970-1990)..

Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs. (2013)
Journal Article
MALINS, J. and GULARI, M.N. 2013. Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs. Swedish design research journal [online], 2(13), pages 32-39. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3384/svid.2000-964X.13232

Providing appropriate innovation support to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is an on-going challenge. Governments offer a range of initiatives from advice, to research and development grants; however, the underlying methodological frameworks... Read More about Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs..

Practising equality? Issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality. (2013)
Journal Article
HARRIS, P. and FREMANTLE, C. 2013. Practising equality? Issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality. Participations: journal of audience and reception studies, 10(2), pages 183-200. Available from: https://www.participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%202/11.pdf

Increasingly co-creativity and participation are considered central aspects of practices across art and design (including architecture) (Bishop, Bourriaud, Hope, Kester, Till). The discourse on Web 2.0 (Leadbeater, Shirky) addresses co-creativity and... Read More about Practising equality? Issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality..

What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today. (2013)
Journal Article
PEACH, A. 2013. What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today. Craft research [online], 4(2), pages 161-179. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/crre.4.2.161_1

This article critically reviews the concept of 'revival' in relation to making in contemporary culture. The 1970s are a period, which craft historians and theorists generally acknowledge as one of revival and reinvention of craft practice across Brit... Read More about What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today..

Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools. (2013)
Journal Article
KEARNEY, G. and HARRIS, P., 2013. Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools. International journal of education through art [online], 9(3), pages 311-326. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.9.3.311_1

Increasing interest in the concept of the Creative Industries with emphasis upon the industry aspect, presents questions as to how Art Schools can best prepare students. Indeed the industrial aspect encourages consideration of business and entreprene... Read More about Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools..

Beyond the creative industries. (2013)
Journal Article
MACDONALD, S. 2013. Beyond the creative industries. International journal of education through art [online], 9(3), pages 293-309. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.9.3.293_1

Although Creative Industries as engines of post-industrial economies have assumed an increasing global priority with implications for art education at all levels few studies exist. Nomenclature here is contested, especially when arts role appears fre... Read More about Beyond the creative industries..

Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. (2013)
Journal Article
HACKETT, C. 2013. Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. International journal of social, political and community agendas in the arts [online], 7(3), pages 1-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v07i03/36367

Voices narrate their views on skills, transferable skills, marginalisation and poverty in relation to society, opportunity and drug addiction. Narcotic addicts need to educate themselves on where to source and buy drugs and how to go about raising en... Read More about Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow..

The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments. (2013)
Journal Article
SPARK, J. 2013. The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments. PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture [online], 8(1), pages 185-207. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22329/p.v8i1.3908

Any attention paid to the positioning of telecommunications installations in natural landscapes usually relates to the aesthetic impact. However, such paraphernalia, particularly when contrasted with natural surroundings, invites us to think beyond t... Read More about The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments..