Description
It has been said that what we make in turn makes us. If so, does it matter how we go about making? This talk considers calls for the failed meta-narrative of progress to be countered with the carefulness and authenticity of craft and explores how an outdated romantic notion of craft might itself be ‘remade’.I will propose three lenses for remaking craft - the idea of proximity as a form of relationality, the notion of relational depth in therapeutic practice, and concepts of co-becoming in new materialism.
Through these I hope to illustrate how craft can offer an alternative attitude to design and progress, at a time when we increasingly understand the environment to no longer be apart from us, but to be a very part of our being.
| Period | 2 Apr 2025 |
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| Event type | Other |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- craft
- epistemology
- relational
- intra-action
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