User:Nsilver/Notes making is connecting

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