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9 Conclusions
It is not possible to understand the design from Latin America if it is not empowered
through its link with crafts and their differentiating factors in a globalized world.
Subsequently, the need to articulate handicrafts to design is born, in its quest for
resignification and reconstruction of a new luxury [40].
Traditional craftsmanship represents a unique mixture of skills with a more profound expression of human values that transcend culture, time, and space [34].
These values, articulated to design and new creative industries become exponential
craftsmanship, where tradition, luxury, and emotional connection between producer–
consumer converge, allowing parallel and appreciative dialogues to be established
through an object.
For Hawley and Frater [34], luxury is defined as a high quality, limited quantity,
creative and rare product/service and claimed that craftsmanship qualifies within
these adjectives. If we go back to the first part of this chapter and articulate the different perspectives created around craftsmanship, we can affirm that each perspective
converges on the fact that artisanal development as a material expression of a specific
culture, has been from its origins a sustainable piece of luxury perpetuated in time
through its multiple manifestations.
Campuzano [11] affirms by exposing the different conceptions of luxury that the
basis and the rationale for the luxury product is the craftsmanship and its entire
production process, from the way they extract the raw material to the exclusivity of
the finished product.
Modern capitalism generates an extraordinary wealth, often at the cost of devouring natural resources more quickly than nature can replace them [35]. This phenomenon generates irreparable damage to natural ecosystems, altering the social
balance visibly at the micro- and macro-level.
The creation of products based on capitalist guidelines begin to be outdated and
the focus toward traditional concepts based on experience and the need to create
sustainable spaces, where quality over quantity goes first, begins to take root as an
alternative to transformation at the sociocultural, environmental, and economic levels
[37].
Sustainability, luxury, and ethics initiate a permanent and unalterable dialogue
in the reconfiguration of the fashion system. This dialogue allows addressing in a
meaningful manner, the creation of pieces aligned with responsible processes allowing environmental and social balance in a society where luxury cannot exist without
sustainability. In time, this mutual relationship between sustainability and luxury
will become more robust, becoming the fundamental pillar of new creations [39].
As a form of cultural permanence and resistance over time, the artisanal development, and its broad cultural and immaterial weight, typical of the indigenous communities, has been in permanent dialogue with the earth as a sacred place, a space
for spiritual and earthly connection and source of creative inspiration to narrate its
legacy through colors, pints, materials, and know-how.
A. Ospina and A. López
9 Conclusions
It is not possible to understand the design from Latin America if it is not empowered
through its link with crafts and their differentiating factors in a globalized world.
Subsequently, the need to articulate handicrafts to design is born, in its quest for
resignification and reconstruction of a new luxury [40].
Traditional craftsmanship represents a unique mixture of skills with a more profound expression of human values that transcend culture, time, and space [34].
These values, articulated to design and new creative industries become exponential
craftsmanship, where tradition, luxury, and emotional connection between producer–
consumer converge, allowing parallel and appreciative dialogues to be established
through an object.
For Hawley and Frater [34], luxury is defined as a high quality, limited quantity,
creative and rare product/service and claimed that craftsmanship qualifies within
these adjectives. If we go back to the first part of this chapter and articulate the different perspectives created around craftsmanship, we can affirm that each perspective
converges on the fact that artisanal development as a material expression of a specific
culture, has been from its origins a sustainable piece of luxury perpetuated in time
through its multiple manifestations.
Campuzano [11] affirms by exposing the different conceptions of luxury that the
basis and the rationale for the luxury product is the craftsmanship and its entire
production process, from the way they extract the raw material to the exclusivity of
the finished product.
Modern capitalism generates an extraordinary wealth, often at the cost of devouring natural resources more quickly than nature can replace them [35]. This phenomenon generates irreparable damage to natural ecosystems, altering the social
balance visibly at the micro- and macro-level.
The creation of products based on capitalist guidelines begin to be outdated and
the focus toward traditional concepts based on experience and the need to create
sustainable spaces, where quality over quantity goes first, begins to take root as an
alternative to transformation at the sociocultural, environmental, and economic levels
[37].
Sustainability, luxury, and ethics initiate a permanent and unalterable dialogue
in the reconfiguration of the fashion system. This dialogue allows addressing in a
meaningful manner, the creation of pieces aligned with responsible processes allowing environmental and social balance in a society where luxury cannot exist without
sustainability. In time, this mutual relationship between sustainability and luxury
will become more robust, becoming the fundamental pillar of new creations [39].
As a form of cultural permanence and resistance over time, the artisanal development, and its broad cultural and immaterial weight, typical of the indigenous communities, has been in permanent dialogue with the earth as a sacred place, a space
for spiritual and earthly connection and source of creative inspiration to narrate its
legacy through colors, pints, materials, and know-how.