Exploring the Different
Meanings of the Term ‘Craft’
Exploring the Different
Meanings of the Term ‘Craft’
Scientific Paper. Book Chapter
Artigo Científico. Capítulo de Livro
Peer-review. Revisão por pares
Semantic revision for craft-related terms. The paper aims to establish a taxonomy that can serve as a common ground for cooperation between academia, practitioners and public institutions. As a result, we present five categories corresponding to five dimensions of ‘craft’: craft as an artefact, craft as a skill, craft as an activity, craft as a process and craft as knowledge.
This work was supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. by project "A future for traditional crafts driven by architectural design: a practical methodology" reference 2022.10170.BD, and DOI https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.10170.BD
Vieira-da-Silva, D., Alvelos, H., Valentim, N., & Dolbeth, J. (2025). Polysemic Lexicon: Exploring the Different Meanings of the Term ‘Craft’. In N. Martins & D. Brandão (Eds.), Advances in Design and Digital Communication V (pp. 712-724). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77566-6_52
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387370131_Polysemic_Lexicon_Exploring_the_Different_Meanings_of_the_Term_'Craft' [accessed Aug 10 2025].