2018
DOI: 10.24043/isj.47
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Craft, textiles, and cultural assets in the Northern Isles: innovation from tradition in the Shetland Islands

Abstract: This article explores design innovation approaches in the creative economy in the Northern Isles of Scotland, specifically, the Shetland archipelago, focusing on the textiles sector. Shetland has a rich history of craft work, including Fair Isle knitting and lace making. We contend that the value of cultural assets in contributing to the creative economy is underexamined and that there is a paucity of understanding of the innovative potential of craft and creative practitioners in the region. The insights pres… Show more

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“…Further research on Scotland's creative island economy addresses design innovation in the textiles sector of the Shetland archipelago [47]. McHattie et al point out the cultural significance and value of the textiles sector beyond its economic contribution, namely through its articulation with tourism [47] (p. 41). However, the paper makes no explicit reference to creative tourism.…”
Section: Europementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Further research on Scotland's creative island economy addresses design innovation in the textiles sector of the Shetland archipelago [47]. McHattie et al point out the cultural significance and value of the textiles sector beyond its economic contribution, namely through its articulation with tourism [47] (p. 41). However, the paper makes no explicit reference to creative tourism.…”
Section: Europementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Island rurality, furthermore, seems to bring out a different set of concerns in creative tourism development, namely addressing issues of authenticity (or authenticities) [14,57,58], quality of place [34], place identity/sense of place [31,41], community participation [64], and capacity building/ community empowerment [14,35,39,60,65]. Intended benefits from creative tourism for rural island communities include economic strengthening/revival [34,35,39,48]; higher destination differentiation/ competitiveness [14,33,35,40,57]; fostered community cohesion [31,46,48]; increased pride in local culture among residents [14,46,47]; and reduced seasonality [14,40].…”
Section: Key Findingsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The data shows that students learned and worked more actively in joining the class of TEAL, expressed their needs and idea (Suryasa et al, 2019). Some performed their activity individually, while others actively participated in their group work (McHattie et al, 2018). In this learning context, it was also noticed that two to four students performed their leadership naturally as their participation was enhanced from day to day (Aldayel et al, 2019;Shanley et al, 2019).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…The approach encourages consideration into end-of-life strategies at the beginning of the design process through to considering both shared and discreet assets across the supply chain. These assets extend to physical assets such as: fibers, processes, materials, techniques and technologies and cultural assets including: people, place and practice (McHattie et al, 2018). The task mediated re-thinking supply and demand as an approach to Circular by Design and encouraged individuals to work within groups to visually depict new material journeys.…”
Section: Case Study Two: Re-thinking Supply and Demand -Circular By Dmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is a range of natural environments that can be used to situate contextually located conversations around, for example, the richness of Scottish raw materials including natural and noble fibers; such as fleece from crofts and the spinning of yarn for weaving and knitwear. These conversations draw on what we term the 'deep process wisdom' found in the supply chain and are elaborated on in the following principle (McHattie et al, 2018).…”
Section: Principle 1 Situate Conversations In Naturalistic Environmentsmentioning
confidence: 99%