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* Admiring the 'savagery' and 'rudeness' by embracing them as human imperfections. | * Admiring the 'savagery' and 'rudeness' by embracing them as human imperfections. | ||
* Don't be a slave to perfection. | * Don't be a slave to perfection. | ||
| + | * Embracing imperfection as human nature. | ||
* The 'tool' and the master. | * 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. | * Labour division: A capitalist efficient economic machine that suppresses creativity and promotes productivity power but not individual growth or invention. | ||
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* William Morris Rides In | * William Morris Rides In | ||
* individualistic 'making things' | * individualistic 'making things' | ||
| + | * Morris believes hope gives worth and continuity to human endeavour | ||
| + | * Morris saw the industrial age as something that could harm the environment and sustainability, he saw that nature and man needed to life in harmony to survive. | ||
| + | * for Morris sharing art and education is core in society | ||
| + | * to quote him in a lecture from 1877: 'I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.' | ||
| + | * Useful Work overs hope to the maker | ||
| + | * Morris defines wealth similar to Ruskin, but includes the sharing part. A 100 years before the World Wide Web. | ||
| + | * Art seperated from the craft but Morris says: 'The best artist was a workman still, the humblest workman was an artist.’ | ||
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== The meaning of making II: Craft today == | == The meaning of making II: Craft today == | ||
Revision as of 12:21, 17 February 2015
Contents
- 1 Notes Making is Connecting
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The meaning of making I: Philosophies of craft
- 1.3 The meaning of making II: Craft today
- 1.4 The meaning of making III: Digital
- 1.5 The value of connecting I: Personal happiness
- 1.6 The value of connecting II: Social capital and communities
- 1.7 Tools for change
- 1.8 Web 2.0 not all rosy?
- 1.9 Conclusion
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.
- Embracing imperfection as human nature.
- 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
- individualistic 'making things'
- Morris believes hope gives worth and continuity to human endeavour
- Morris saw the industrial age as something that could harm the environment and sustainability, he saw that nature and man needed to life in harmony to survive.
- for Morris sharing art and education is core in society
- to quote him in a lecture from 1877: 'I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.'
- Useful Work overs hope to the maker
- Morris defines wealth similar to Ruskin, but includes the sharing part. A 100 years before the World Wide Web.
- Art seperated from the craft but Morris says: 'The best artist was a workman still, the humblest workman was an artist.’
