报告题目：Journey of Indian Wood Craft: From Wooden Built Heritage to the Contemporary Wood Craft­design Innovations

报告时间：2016年3月22日
报告地点：尼泊尔加德满都 尼泊尔学院
报告嘉宾：Jay Thakkar， 印度CEPT大学创新设计资源中心

摘要：

The traditional and vernacular houses constitutes a major section of built heritage in India generating a physical compendium of the rituals and culture of a civilization and its people. They were constructed by local craftspeople, using indigenous technologies which have evolved over the years. One of the most prominent natural material to be employed in these buildings is wood. The rich wooden heritage of India displays multiple types of crafts like wood carving, wood inlay, wood marquetry, wood turning and lacquer, carpentry and wood working.

The traditional wood craft practices are still thriving in India and they are embedded with an inherent empirical knowledge. The crafts people not only encompasses the knowledge of material and skills of making in wood but also holds a holistic and intuitive understanding of sustainability in the larger context. But due to the shift in the building industry over period of time, the craftspeople working in the building wood craft sector have now moved to smaller scale of furniture and objects. Further over the last few decades the industrial production has reduced the skilled based handwork resulting into disintegration of wood craft practices.

The awareness about value of crafts is emerging back in India but the craftspeople are now posed with the challenge of blending traditional knowledge with emerging design trends to cater to the new markets. Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University has developed a comprehensive mapping, documentation and innovation models, not only preserve and revive the craft skills but also to fuse design, craft and industrial process with each other to create synergies for innovation and generate new directions for crafts in current milieu.

This presentation is the journey through the traditional Indian wooden architecture to the wood craft practices to a systematic institutional model of research and innovation in the wood crafts of India.

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