Los Angeles, CA
Radical Craft (www.radical-craft.com) is a Los Angeles-based studio, founded by Joshua G. Stein in 2005, that develops methods for the translation of craft operations into broader scales and domains. It recuperates the role that tradition and technique play in design and in a larger cultural context without forfeiting the advantages to both production and speculation that have been afforded by recent advances in digital technology. Exploring the production of urban spaces and artifacts through traditional or archaic phenomena (from archaeology to craft), the studio seeks to evolve newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by contemporary virtuality, velocity, and globalization.