Full Description
This book brings together contributors from multiple disciplines, such as crafts, design, art education, cognitive philosophy, and sociology, to discuss craft and design practice from an embodied perspective.
Through theoretical overviews of embodied cognition and research-based cases that involve the researchers' making experiences, different phenomena of human‑material interaction are presented, analysed, and discussed. The practical cases exemplify ways in which embodied notions show up in action. Contributors examine topics such as the embodied basis of craft activities and material manipulation, experiential knowledge and skill learning, reflection in and on action, and material dialogues. Several chapters specifically discuss the hybrid forms of analogue and digital crafting that increasingly takes place in the field of crafts and design, and the changed notions of material engagement that this entails.
The book will appeal to scholars of crafts, design, art education, anthropology, and sociology.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Preface Introduction SECTION I: CRAFT AS EMBODIED MAKING AND LEARNING 1. Dynamic affordances in human-material "dialogues" 2. Craft Thinking: A relational approach to making and design 3. Becoming with glass: Medium and materiality in embodied knowledge 4. Feeling how: MET and embodied cognition in the learning of pottery skills 5. Embodied craft practices: Mindful flow, creativity, and collaboration as drivers for wellbeing SECTION II: MATERIALITY OF MATERIALS AND NON-MATERIALS IN CRAFT 6. Embodied knowledge integrated into robotic wire cutting of clay 7. Making, playing, crafting - Connecting embodied practices in play, game design, and hybrid making 8. Hand thought: Hybrid practices and a digital craft ethos 9. Grasping materiality - Digitalization in light of educational arts and crafts practice SECTION III: ARTEFACTS AS MATERIAL EXTENSIONS OF CRAFT EXPERIENCE 10. Traces of craft experience in artefacts 11. Scaffolding visualization and mental rotation in designing and crafting 12. Making bumps and jumping hurdles: Understanding resistance in the processes of raising aluminium from a novice's perspective 13. Making sense with things in participatory design 14. Interactive connected smart (ICS) materials experience: Collaborative embodied knowledge through material tinkering Afterword
