In reaction against the global spread of digitisation and de-skilling, there has, in recent years, been a strong renewal of interest in the idea of `craftsmanship meaning skill, care, specialisation, making things, tacit knowledge, satisfaction, the close relationship between people and the work they do. This renewal of interest is not about nostalgiathe myth of the happy artisan, the Victorian Arts and Crafts movementbut about giving value to productive work in the contemporary urban world.