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 nostalgia--the myth of the happy artisan, the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement--but about giving value to productive work in the contemporary urban world.