Deadline: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Spring/Summer 2025: STRUCTURE/S
Description:
One of the definitions for structure in the Oxford English Dictionary is: “the existing arrangement and mutual relation of the constituent parts of a material object, esp. as determining its distinctive nature or character; physical composition, frame, or make-up.” For this issue of Studio, we’re interested in how structure applies to, defines, and informs various crafts and their relationships with people, places, flows, markets and materials.
- What structural arrangements are involved in Canadian craft and design production?
- How do craft and design shape various structures — in every sense of the word, from buildings, to institutions, to processes and procedures?
- How do structures provide a framework for inquiry, and which structures need to be challenged/dismantled?
- How are relationships across practices/materials/expressions expressed by structures, and how are they challenged?
- How are new ideas/futures imagined through structures, both ideological and physical?