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Notes Making is Connecting

Introduction

• Making is connecting because you have to connect things together (materials, ideas, or both) to make something new; • Making is connecting because acts of creativity usually involve, at some point, a social dimension and connect us with other people; • And making is connecting because through makingthings and sharing them in the world, we increase our engagement and connection with our social and physical environments.

Craft is a process that takes time, there is rarely a specific endgoal in sight. It is the process of discovery and having ideas through the process of making. It is about shaping the material to convey a message.

Sit back and be told vs. Making and doing.

Web 1.0 is your own space. (read) Web 2.0 is everyone their space like this Wiki. (read/write and thus connecting)

What is creativity?

  • Change in a symbolic domain, creating new things.
  • Requires an audience and a field of work.
  • Creativity is an aspect of human beings even if it isn't recognised by one of the points mentioned above.

The meaning of making I: Philosophies of craft

  • Art, craft and design are not to be separated.
  • 20th century started to separate the craft from the ideas.
  • Creating objects and creating ideas are equal and should not be thought of separately.
  • The process of crafting is the process of shaping ideas.
  • working with your hand as a central part of the process of thinking and making
  • 'problem solving and problem finding'
  • a pleasure in making even without knowing the end goal
  • mimetic art

John Ruskin and William Morris

  • Ruskin was a artist and a social thinker, He was conservative but not religious, he did not appreciate the industrialisation and the self-interest based economy.
  • 'THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE' John Ruskin
  • Ruskin on Creativity and Imperfection
  • Admiring the 'savagery' and 'rudeness' by embracing them as human imperfections.
  • Don't be a slave to perfection.
  • The 'tool' and the master.
  • Labour division: A capitalist efficient economic machine that suppresses creativity and promotes productivity power but not individual growth or invention.
  • Marx and Ruskin both in there on ways claim that repetitive work kills a creative spirit
  • william MOrris Rides in

The meaning of making II: Craft today

The meaning of making III: Digital

The value of connecting I: Personal happiness

The value of connecting II: Social capital and communities

Tools for change

Web 2.0 not all rosy?

Conclusion