About CRAFT - Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions Welcome to CRAFT - an online magazine where crafters of materials turn to crafting deeds and words. We hope you enjoy the experience! CRAFT is an eZine where we can all can publish and edit for our friends, family and community. If you wish, you can contribute a topic or theme for a given issue. CRAFT is designed as a Peer 2 Peer mentored and reviewed publishing platform. Please let us have your thoughts and ideas and suggestions for future editions.
Our Vision Primarily our vision is one of a ‘practical hope’ through helping us as spectators, readers and/or digerati learn towards an embodied, thoughtful, critical, practical, empowered, interpersonal and experimental attitude. As such, this is the opposite of the illusionary and environmentally destructive stance we see even in our own back yards today with our dependent consumerism. CRAFT’s mission is to publish work that is primarily visual and can provide practical hope, is innovative and developed within practice that is grounded. The focus of such critical practice is to include a significant ‘hands on’ component and include reprise and reflections thereon. Generally such praxis is based on a completed (exemplar) project. Each publication will have a theme 1 around this focus potentially drawing on a range of engagement with CRAFT.
Our Aims a) CRAFTing Futures Nature can live with – through CRAFT – Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions b) This e-zine/e-magazine seeks to link the humanities/social sciences with hard sciences through, ‘hands on’ projects and associated learning that demonstrate practically today that a better world is possible tomorrow for our children with planet c) To listen to and give a site for the silenced voices and invisible practices in a praxis of hope that can help our culture be sustainable d) Our principal aim is for readers/surfers/authors who are learned in the school of life/hard knocks/unschooled in the conventional sense so to speak yet deeply learned and practical yet with few if any degrees or training diplomas. e) Crafters connecting in a circle of practice and learning – a community of praxis. 1
CRAFTwork viz. CRAFT’ing, CRAFT’er, and others: CRAFT’y vignettes, CRAFTy’learning, artyCRAFTy, CRAFT’work, CRAFT’techne, CRAFTe’Books, CRAFTy’life, greenCRAFT, handCRAFT, CRAFT’animation, CRAFTy’potlatch, sauvage’CRAFT’ing, bricoleur’CRAFT’er, airCRAFT, permaCRAFT, landCRAFT, seaCRAFT, musiCRAFT, bushCRAFT, volkCRAFTwerker, CRAFTartificer, museCRAFT, CRAFT(h)activism, physioCRAFT, bioCRAFT, memeoCRAFT, futureCRAFT, hyperCRAFT, CRAFTfutures, post-apocalypseCRAFT, CRAFTy’nomics and CRAFTzEine etc.