• Co-creation in professional craft practice 

      Groth, Camilla; Berg, Arild (Chapter, 2018)
      Design practice involves several disciplines, and when the manufacturing process demands special skills, designers outsource the work to craftspersons. Traditionally, craftspersons make a living by taking orders and ...
    • Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative research across the sciences and creative practice 

      Groth, Camilla; Pevere, Margherita; Niinimäki, Kirsi; Kääriäinen, Pirjo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Interdisciplinary research across the sciences and creative practice offers potential to explore new areas of knowledge previously hidden between disciplines. However, diverging epistemology and expectations make collaboration ...
    • Craft sciences meet neuroscience 

      Groth, Camilla; Jousmäki, Veikko; Saarinen, Veli-Matti; Hari, Riitta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Collaboration between disciplines is necessary when research questions cannot be answered within a single discipline. Joining of forces can produce results that neither discipline could provide alone. Here we exemplify ...
    • Editorial: Special issue on embodied making and learning 

      Groth, Camilla; Riis, Kirstine; Gulliksen, Marte Sørebø (Others, 2020)
      This special issue on embodied making and learning is dedicated to aspects of embodied cognition that goes on in the field of art, craft and design. The contributors to this issue were invited from the Embodied Making and ...
    • Explorations in Craft Sciences 

      Almevik, Gunnar; Groth, Camilla; Westerlund, Tina (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research conducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This book aims to build on the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and ...
    • Making as a Way of Interacting with the Environment 

      Groth, Camilla (Chapter, 2020)
      As craft practitioners, we interact closely and intimately with materials and tools. As we learn to listen to the voice of a material, to the possibilities and limitations it presents, we adjust our intentions to what is ...
    • Navigating methodological perspectives in doctoral research through creative practice: Two examples of research in crafts 

      Riis, Kirstine; Groth, Camilla (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Methodologies for conducting academic research in crafts through practice-led approaches are still emerging, and research methods are developing with each project. Through this article, we navigate the field from a doctoral ...
    • Physiological measurements and emotional experiences of drawing and clay forming 

      Rankanen, Mimmu; Leinikka, Marianne; Groth, Camilla; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Mäkelä, Maarit; Huotilainen, Minna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Experimental research on the psychophysiological effects of different art materials and tasks is still scarce. This mixed methods research focused on physiological changes and emotional experiences in drawing and clay ...
    • The Role of the Weaver in the Encounter with Life and Death 

      Nordström, Birgitta; Groth, Camilla (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      I weave ritual textiles for funerals, loss, and sorrow. Weaving in relation to death is a topic in myths, literature, and storytelling, where the weft, woven row by row, resonates with human life lived day by day. So does ...
    • Studying Material Interactions to Facilitate a Sense of Being with the World 

      Aktas, Bilge Merve; Groth, Camilla (Chapter, 2020)
      Material interactions are fundamental to design and craft education; however, they might also provide opportunities to reflect on sustainable behaviour in general. In this paper, we present an interdisciplinary undergraduate ...
    • Video as a Tool for Knowing and Telling in Practice-led Craft Research 

      Groth, Camilla (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      As craft practices have been taken up in academia, practitioner-researchers meet the challenge of articulating experiential knowledge of their practice. This position asks the researcher to first document and make sense ...
    • Why our brains love arts and crafts implications of creative practices on psychophysical well-being 

      Huotilainen, Minna; Rankanen, Mimmu; Groth, Camilla; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Mäkelä, Maarit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This article aims to integrate knowledge from the field of cognitive neuroscience and the arts by focusing on the implications that flow experience and the mirror neuron system integral to making processes have for our ...