Project :: Craft Platforms

Digital Platforms for Craft in the UK and China

The AHRC funded Digital Platforms for Craft in the UK and China researches how digital platforms are used and what value they generate for the craft sector in the Creative Economies of China and the UK given the differing cultural heritages and divergent contemporary digital culture, regulation, and infrastructure.

The project will directly benefit people working in the craft sector through dissemination of best practice in how to use digital platforms in the craft sector to help them grow and sustain their craft businesses. This will directly help support growth of the Creative Economy in China and also the UK through targeted and localised case studies of uses of digital platforms. The web resources of case studies and digital platform guides will be supported in China for at least 3 years after the project is completed.

People

Queen Mary University of London, UK
Nick Bryan-Kinns
Yuanyuan Liu
QMUL Network
Hunan University, China
Hao Tan
Zhengyu Tan
Ying Zhao

Research Areas

Craft
Creative Economy
Cross-cultural design