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Resurgent Homecraft, Design for Resilience, and the Everyday Practices of Sustainable Living
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Fountain, W, Resurgent Homecraft, Design for Resilience, and the Everyday Practices of Sustainable Living, Making Futures Journal, 3 pp. 1-6. ISSN 2042-1664 (2014) [Non Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Centred on the home, this paper reports on design
research serving the broad social agendas of
affordable, sustainable housing and food sovereignty.
Intended to inform ecological design, the project
has revealed rich sites of values-driven craft and
design as the enactment of sustainable living by
householders. Practices of self-provisioning through
growing, preserving, waste cycling, re-using and
re-purposing feature strongly in this exploration of
twelve Tasmanian households. Discernible within
these settings is a craft-design interface resonant
with Christopher Frayling’s (2011) call for a renewed
‘head-heart-hand’ convergence. The project’s
backdrop is cast through an initial thematic analysis
exploring dominant norms in housing and food
culture. Invoked, for example, is the global flat-pack
kitchen’s role in erasing culturally-nuanced food
practices and their embedded crafts, along with the
rise of ‘green counterpart’ consumer goods. Insights
and examples from the multi-household ethnography
follow, emphasising the potential for homecraft to
illuminate values, experiential knowledge, skills and
practices bound within deliberative sustainable living.
Emerging from project participants’ responses to
generative design tasks is the potential for resilience
thinking to productively unify craft and design
practice, and connect diverse domains of knowledge
with social, material and post-material practices.
I close with a call for all new and adapted housing
design to make space – both conceptual and material
– for resurgent homecraft, irrespective of tenure, as
conditional to living more sustainably everyday.
Item Details
Item Type: | Non Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | resilience, design, homecraft, food systems |
Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Other built environment and design |
Research Field: | Other built environment and design not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Fountain, W (Dr Wendy Fountain) |
ID Code: | 96980 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | Curriculum and Academic Development |
Deposited On: | 2014-11-27 |
Last Modified: | 2014-11-27 |
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