In Latvia, the aim, content, and name of subject craft education have changed several times. The most recent transformation to “craft education” has been made following general reform, which gradually implemented since 2020. This study aims investigate how purpose content learning in Latvian comprehensive schools as a result this reform comparison previous period. A qualitative was carried out ...

Collaboration between disciplines is necessary when research questions cannot be answered within a single discipline. Joining of forces can produce results that neither discipline could provide alone. Here we exemplify collaboration ceramic craft researcher and three neuroscientists working in the field human brain imaging. In our case study clay throwing, researcher–practitioner’s eye gaze, mu...

This paper presents a hybrid model of teaching and learning that proposes new possibilities for exchang­ing tangible intangible cross-cultural knowledge in textile craft education. The aims to demonstrate how online platforms can be used creatively disseminate traditional skills ways. discussion centres on unique virtual global studio between fashion undergraduate students at the University Tec...

Historical gardens and green cultural environments maintain transmit parts of our biocultural heritage. The gardener's maintenance cultivation work affects both the content experience these environments. While modern management methods in many cases are necessary to fulfil requirements for environment efficiency, we want investigate extent which alternative/traditional working can contribute wi...

The title for this special issue takes its starting point from Choderlos de Laclos’ novel depicting the machinations, seduction and jealousies of a ménage a trois, a fitting analogy for the complex matrices of the affinities between design, craft and art over the last two hundred years. Drawing on our analogy, design, craft and art can be seen to occupy an unstable territory of permanently shif...