What are the ethical responsibilities of crafts today? Welcome to a conference in Gothenburg

The Conference Crafts and ethics

This event will explore the complex issuses about labour conditions, material sourcing and perceptions of value that are central to the future identity of crafts. The proximity of craft practices to making arguably makes the craft disciplines better positioned to safeguard their ethical standards.

But what standards should we aspire to the crafts of the future upholding?
How can the crafts justify the investment of makers’ time weighed against scale of audience or
financial remuneration?
In a world overfilled with goods, how do we defend bringing more into the world?

Keynote speakers are the Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma and the British artist Rod Bamford. The conference includes a number of shorter seminars, group discussions between participants and a panel discussion moderated by Professor Jessica Hemmings. 

This conference is a collaboration between HDK – Academy of Design and Crafts, University of Gothenburg, The Crafts Centre - Konsthantverkscentrum, and The Röhsska Museum. It is aimed at practitioners, students and others active within the field of crafts both in Sweden and internationally. The organisers have realized several conferences together in the past, for example two international events: Mapping Crafts Theories in 2013 and About Time in 2015. 

The conference will be held in English with group discussions in both Swedish and English. 

• Price: 600 SEK. 
• Price, members of Konsthantverkscentrum: 500 SEK.
• Price, students: 250 SEK. 

Light meal on Friday, lunch and coffee on Saturday included.

For further information: info@konsthantverkscentrum.se