International Conference - A Conversation between Tradition and Innovation:Yesterday's Expertise Facing Tomorrow's Challenges

- International Conference - A Conversation between Tradition and Innovation: Yesterday's Expertise Facing Tomorrow's Challenges. 26,27,28 May 2025 - Saint-Etienne & Lyon

    CALL FOR PAPERS

The final deadline of the Call for papers
for the CIMAD conference is the15th Febuary 2025

In May 2025, the European MOSAIC project is organising the second edition of its International Conference on Arts & Crafts and Design - CIMAD.
This year's theme will be ‘Conversation between tradition and innovation: yesterday's know-how facing tomorrow's challenges’.

Tomorrow, a distant horizon, is a mixture of uncertainties and promises of change; today is a time for experimentation, transition, improvement and creation; yesterday is an infinite memory of experience and achievements. To speak of Arts & Crafts in the present is to evoke this intermediary stage where a range of skills come together, shared between preservation and innovation. It is a time of identity construction in the face of modernisation (Berger and Luckmann, 1966), of redefinition with digital manufacturing (Anderson, 2012), of integration of new social and economic structures (Luckmann, 2015), of creation of singular and distinctive value (Karpik, 2007), of mobilisation of the community (Rawsthorn and Antonelli, 2020). The papers in this symposium put modern and diverse craft practices into perspective as they evolve (Braunstein-Kriegel and Petiot, 2019), drawing their wisdom from past experiences handed down over generations. 

We propose to use design to investigate today's Arts & Crafts, to unravel the tension between perpetuating tradition and creating a break with it, to twist the fabric between maintaining a memory and the emergence of ideas. Design explores contemporary issues related to making and creating (Smith et al, 2018), processes that are central to Arts & Crafts practices. We propose a dialogue between the disciplines of Métiers d'Art and Design along these two directions:

• on the principle of integrating traditional know-how into contemporary issues (Berger and Luckmann, 1966 ; Morris Hargreaves McIntyre, 2010 ; Woodcock et al., 2011 ; Braunstein-Kriegel and Petiot, 2019)
• on the principle of a laboratory for social change and transformations in professional practices (Branzi, 1985 ; Adamson, 2007 ; Berrebi et al., 2018 ; Rawsthorn and Antonelli, 2020)

The convergence of these two principles gives rise to a set of issues that we propose to examine in three research areas:

(1) The encounter between heritage and modernity;
(2) frugality and ecological innovation;
(3) the ethical responsibility of craftsmanship.

These themes form the basis of a conversation between tradition and innovation, with themes such as digital technology, ornamentation, third places, professional retraining, bio-inspired design, upcycling, the circular economy, the female gender, community activation and soft skills. This symposium will address a range of contemporary issues facing the Arts & Crafts, combining the skills of yesterday with the challenges of tomorrow. Tomorrow is illuminated by a clarity that reconciles with change.

For more details, see our call for papers:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iO6M4jHcJoKW2-AZr4VH-uIQbGyb0J_o?usp=share_link

The first two days of the conference will be held in Saint-Étienne - City UNESCO of Design -Territory of research and experiment, network Creative City UNESCO - at the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Étienne
The last day of the conference will be held in Lyon - Cultural heart of the Auvergne Rhône Alpes region, network Creative City UNESCO, near to the French Cultural Capital in 2022, Villeurbanne, for the gourmets, Lyon is the International City of Gastronomy- at the Société d’Enseignement Professionnel du Rhône de Lyon

Please submit your research proposal by e-mail to: cimad.ujm@gmail.com  (cimad.ujm @ gmail.com)
by February 15^th 2025.

We mainly accept papers from researchers but our philosophy is to also create dialogues with the overall Arts & Crafts community. This year, we will accept proposals in the form of academic articles as well as posters.

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