Marina Kitsukawa | 2019 | Bachelorarbeit Modedesign
The Artisan
What is the significance of materials, traditions and skills? What role does crafting and craftsmanship play in the age of digitization, hypercapitalism and automatism?
Yuzen, a craft that visually captures Japan‘s traditional motifs on silk, is an endangered art. The scope of application is in many cases limited to the decoration of kimonos. In this way, Yuzen is a symbol of a never-changing, endangered craftsmanship. By exploring this craft, I hope to open it up to other uses and thus to show a way to save the craft in general in the 21st century. This collection serves as a reference and reminder of the awareness of the long-lived and timeless quality of artisanal products that today‘s society has lost.
Betreut von: Prof. Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen / WM Martin Beck / Mads Dinesen
