User:Nsilver/Notes making is connecting
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.
- 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
