What do we understand when we talk about crafts? | RChD: creación y pensamiento
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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento |Vol. 11 Nº 20| JUN 2026 | Dossier: Intermediaries for sustainable design and transition in Ibero-America: Materials, strategies, and collaborative frameworks. Deadline for full manuscript submission: January 31, 2026. 

What do we understand when we talk about crafts?

Authors

  • Javiera Naranjo Cofundadora, Organización Oficios Varios
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Abstract

This text invites us to perform a reflective exercise, while it proposes a critical view on the use of concepts unveiled in different types of expressions, practices and techniques, circumscribed in specific social geographies and cultures. A review of the notions of crafts, popular art and trades is carried out, highlighting their enunciating capacity throughout history, recognizing them - in some cases - as cover-ups of forms of cultural domination that creep from European colonization in our territories.

Keywords:

crafts , craft , folk art , knowledge , practices