Project description

What is CTD? Shortly it stands for Craft, Technology and Design. The project started from negotiations between Tarkko Oksala (Finland) and Tufan Orel (France) after their co-operation in Design theory. The intent was to build a bridge between theories of Design and Craft and in this sense, it is good to notice Technology as well. First challenge was to find active participants and host for the project. We have been happy in finding HAMK for this duty. Quite soon HAMK opened home pages used actively. First Call for papers were send during the summer of 2019. The home pages were used in communication relatively long, because Covid19 pandemic forced us to proceed in distant mode and somewhat slower than expected. Good is worth to wait and now the e-publication is ready.

The Finnish Society for Practice Based Inquiry (PraBa, www.praba.fi) is a multidisciplinary research association. One of the most central tasks of the association is to collect all the researchers interested in practice based inquiry together to study fundamental questions of the practice based inquiry. Some examples of such fundamental questions: methodology, philosophy of expertise, and knowledge and skills. The main activity is the Annual Congress of Methodology which was held first time in 2002. The Methodology Congress is a multidisciplinary congress; some of the congresses have been international. The association has published several books on fundamental questions of practice based inquiry.