CONF: Tools for the Future – International Workshop #7 Markets for applied arts, artistic crafts, and design (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 9-11 June 2022)

International Workshop #7
Markets for applied arts, artistic crafts, and design

The event will be live streamed for those who cannot attend in person and wish to follow the presentations remotely.

PROGRAMME

Thursday 9 June

09:00–9:30 – Welcome and coffee

09:30–9:45 – Introduction: Filip Vermeylen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Session 1- Exploring understudied crafted cultural goods and their valuation mechanisms
Session chair: Anna Mignosa (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

09:45­–10:15 – Kaylee Alexander (Duke University): Selling Eclecticism: Trickle-Round Signaling and the Market for Funerary Monuments in 19th century Paris
10:15­–10:45 – Paola Cordera (Politecnico di Milano, School of Design): Instructions.Remember to stamp “Made in Italy” on every single item

10:45–11:15 – Coffee break

11:15–11:45 – Elisabetta Lazzaro (Business School for the Creative Industries – University for the Creative Arts): Aesthetics, Functionality, and the Market for Classic Yachts
11:45–12:15 – Leandro Valiati (University of Manchester) &Andre Moreira Cunha (UFRGS – Brazil): NFTs in the Arts Markets: Irrational Exuberance or towards a new paradigm?

12:30–13:30 – Lunch at EUC

Session 2- Creating new markets, displaying, and promoting decorative and applied arts
Session chair: Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

13:30–14:00 – Sarah Bakkali (Independent scholar): Artists and their networks at the service of industry and national economy in the early nineteenth century
14:00–14:30 – Stephanie Dieckvoss (Kingston University): Intimacy in the art fair booth: The hotel art fair as interior
14:30–15:00 – Fiona Whitehurst, Lauren Baker, Jo Singh, Corinne Lewis-Ward, & Ann English (Newcastle University): Co-producing a Collaborative Pop-Up Opportunity for Artists and Makers through Participatory Action Research

15:00–15:30 – Coffee break 

15:30-16:30 – Keynote speaker: Amanda Brandellero (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Making urban transitions through crafts

19:00 – Conference dinner at Bistro Nul10

Friday 10 June

Session 3 – Theoretical and practical challenges faced by the markets for applied arts, artistic crafts, and design

Session chair: Nathalie Moureau (Université Paul Valérie, Montpellier 3)

09:30–10:00 – Elisabetta Lazzaro (Business School for the Creative Industries – University for the Creative Arts) & Adriana Turpin (IESA Institutd’EtudesSupérieures des Arts): Sales of Boulle and Riesener furniture in 19th-century Britain
10:00­–10:30 – Anna Mignosa & Marleen Hofland Mol (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The implications of embodied knowledge on the valuation of creative craft goods.
10:30–11:00 – Giovanni Maria Riccio (University of Salerno) & Pezza, Federica (PQ Trademark Attorney): The “made in Italy” case: between the need for social recognition of Italian minor arts and elaboration of alternative instruments of protection

11:00–11:15 – Coffee break 

11:15–12:15   Keynote speaker: Koenraad Brosens (University of Leuven): Interweaving methodologies: why tapestry trumps the fine arts anytime

Session 4 – Entrepreneurial and strategic endeavors in the markets for crafted works
Session chair: Elisabetta Lazzaro (University for the Creative Arts)

13:30–14:00 – Ellen Loots (Erasmus University Rotterdam) &Anne-Sophie Radermecker (Université libre de Bruxelles): How identity and self-perception affect business models in the creative crafts sector
14:00–14:30 – Camille Mestdagh (LARHRA): Analysing a Rising Market for Decorative Arts Through the Business of a Curiosity Dealer in 19th-Century Paris

14:30–15:00 – Coffee break

15:00–15:30 – Lauren England (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London): Creative symbiosis: Connecting the wood industry, craft, and design ecology of South Tyrol (with Federica Vigano, Faculty of Education, Free University of Bolzano, Roberta Comunian, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, King’s College London, UK)
15:30–16:00 – Ilse Romeijn (Erasmus University Rotterdam): A New Perspective to Craft Entrepreneurship: Looking through the Eyes of Migrants
16:00–16:30 – Darius Spieth (Louisiana State University): Murano Glass versus Studio Glass: Strangers in a Twin Market
16:30-17:00 – Closing remarks: Adriana Turpin & Ellen Loots
17:00–18:30 – Drinks 

Saturday 11 June

10:00–13:00 Cultural activity: visit of the Depot of the Boijmans museum (optional)

REGISTRATION

To register for the workshop, please send an email to workshop@eshcc.eur.nl by 31 May 2022. Registration is mandatory but free of charge.
Details here.

Venue: Erasmus University College
Lecture Hall A
Nieuwemarkt 1A
3011 HP Rotterdam