This project explores how art, design and craft are influenced by resource shortages. I begin by exploring the terms technology, art, craft and design and then move on to a consideration of one case study – post war Britain when designers, artists and craftspeople were working with severe, government-imposed limitations on the materials available to them. In this section, I ask what the implications of rationing and shortages were for art, design and architecture at this time.
Can artists, architects or designers today learn anything from the approaches taken by those working at that time? In the second section I look at the work of a number of important artists, designers, architects and craftspeople working today with resource-restricted materials. How have the limitations in material and process shaped their practices?
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