Projectification of Handicraft : Regimes of Valuation in European Creative Industries

Keršmanc, Robin Tigran (author)

This article analyses how European open calls co-shape handicraft in Slovenia through processes of projectification. Based on the analysis of two projects – Craftwork and Heritage & Modernity – it demonstrates that these calls operate on two levels: as discursive mechanisms that regulate the valuation of handicraft through specific signifiers, and as material managerial regimes that organise the conditions of production through institutional requirements. Thus, these calls do not function merely as a form of support but rather as active governance processes that simultaneously produce regimes of valuation and the material conditions of handicraft practice. The article argues that European policies do not only facilitate but actively transform handicraft within the framework of the creative industries.

• Language: English
• Keywords: handicraft, projectification, EU funding programmes, regimes of valuation, creative industries, creativity, ethnology, anthropology, artistic crafts, project management, cultural industries
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.07.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Letn. 4, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-185075
• UDC: 39:745/749:338.45:001.1
• ISSN on article: 2820-6088
• DOI: 10.4312/svetovi.4.2.31-48
• COBISS.SI-ID: 285640963
• Publication date in RUL: 22.07.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Svetovi
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2820-6088
• COBISS.SI-ID: 148550403

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Projektifikacija rokodelstva : režimi vrednotenja v evropskih kreativnih industrijah

Abstract

Članek analizira, kako evropski razpisi v procesih projektifikacije sooblikujejo rokodelstvo v Sloveniji. Na podlagi analize projektov Craftwork ter Dediščina in sodobnost pokaže, da razpisi delujejo dvoplastno: kot diskurzivni mehanizmi, ki prek označevalcev normirajo vrednotenje rokodelstva, ter kot materialni upravljavski režimi, ki prek institucionalnih zahtev organizirajo produkcijske razmere. Razpisi tako ne delujejo zgolj kot podpora, temveč kot aktivni procesi upravljanja, ki hkrati proizvajajo režime vrednotenja in materialne razmere rokodelske prakse. Članek trdi, da evropske politike ne le omogočajo, temveč aktivno preoblikujejo rokodelstvo v okviru kreativnih industrij.

• Keywords: rokodelstvo, projektifikacija, programi financiranja EU, režimi vrednotenja, kreativne industrije, ustvarjalnost, etnologija, antropologija, umetna obrt, vodenje projektov, kulturne industrije