Redefining Craft is a publication series that hopes to start a conversation about Craft — what it means, what it can mean, and why it ought to be reconsidered. Though the overarching theme is Craft, the series uses each issue to look at the theme from various and sometimes disparate perspectives. In the end, craft is not simply a category of objects, but a system of interdependent relations, linking materials, tools, skills, institutions, forms of knowledge, and people.

Issue two presents conversations and critical reflections that examine how contemporary institutions, markets, and cultural narratives construct the image of craft, and how these constructions may affect its future continuity.


Redefining Craft is published by The Future Publishing, the publishing arm of Studio The Future, a creative studio based in the Netherlands and Japan. Studio The Future is the director of Creative Residency Arita and Creative Residency Saga (Japan).

Redefining Craft is a publication series that hopes to start a conversation about Craft — what it means, what it can mean, and why it ought to be reconsidered. Though the overarching theme is Craft, the series uses each issue to look at the theme from various and sometimes disparate perspectives. In the end, craft is not simply a category of objects, but a system of interdependent relations, linking materials, tools, skills, institutions, forms of knowledge, and people.

Issue two presents conversations and critical reflections that examine how contemporary institutions, markets, and cultural narratives construct the image of craft, and how these constructions may affect its future continuity.


Redefining Craft is published by The Future Publishing, the publishing arm of Studio The Future, a creative studio based in the Netherlands and Japan. Studio The Future is the director of Creative Residency Arita and Creative Residency Saga (Japan).