Crafting the design: Connecting the changing societies through local designs that impact on global markets.
This paper explores the nature and practice of art and craft ideals as practised by local communities, study their socio-culturaland economic contexts, and explore their potentialities for application in contemporary design. The decorative arts in Africa has been explored extensively and applied in variegated ways in the contemporary design and consumer world, the success of which would have benefitted from a deeper and truer interpretation of local contexts. The Botswana arts and crafts scene has been largely unexplored and as such their inspirational potentialities in design remainuntapped and at best a curious passing reference. Two iconic art and craft references in particular have been identified as typical to Botswana, and these are u... Ver más
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2022-05-04
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ZOO! Investigación en Diseño y Comunicación Visual - 2022
