Full Description
This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness. It discusses the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretical entry points and reflects on the implementation of such theoretical perspectives in education. The practical examples of crafting-with the environment, the material practices and reflections posed in the book, provide insights into possible ways of levelling out human and material hierarchies.
The chapters of this book give examples of artists' and crafts people's processes of thinking through materials and with materials, but also their reflections on how more-than-humans (animals and plants) craft from available materials, and how the environment and landscapes re-craft themselves through tedious processes of transformation. These case examples are founded on theauthors' own experiences with phenomena they are trying to understand and critically explore.
This book is of interest to professional creative practitioners, art and craft educators, art teacher educators or researchers in the field of creative practices. It has power to inspire rethinking of present educational practices, to ignite critical reflections about materials and more-than humans, and, hopefully, motivate transformations toward more ecologically sustainable ways of life.
Chapters 1, 7, and 14 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Contents
Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Human Crafting.-Chapter 1. Introduction (Camilla Groth et al.).- Chapter 2. Eco/multi-centric Approaches to Aesthetic Learning Processes (Helene Illeris et al.).- Chapter 3. Kinship Assemblages: Human and Nonhuman Dialogues through Materiality (Miranda Smitheram et al.).-Chapter 4. Slow Spun: Deep Learning and Teaching with Wool (Lorrie Miller et al.).- Chapter 5. Entangling with Materials: Crafting as a Way of Relating to the World (Bilge Merve Aktaş).- Chapter 6. Crafting in Dialogue with Soil (Maarit Mäkelä).-Chapter 7. Crafting in Dialogue with the Material Environment.- Part 2: More-than-human crafting.- Chapter 8. Three Contemporary Artists' Collaborative Crafting-with Non-human Living Organisms (Jing Yang et al.).- Chapter 9. Managing Conflicting Desires in a Garden Plant: Crafting-with a Variegated Daylily (Tina Westerlund et al.). Chapter 10. Birds' Building Masters (Venke Aure etal.).- Chapter 11. Insectography: A Choreographic Crafting of Insects and us (Tone Pernille Østern et al.).- Chapter 12. Desire Lines as Artographic Crafting: Learning-with Wildlife in Rural Canadian Landscapes (Anita Sinner).- Chapter 13. Locating the Hunter: A Tale of Toys, Tigers and Trophies (Koumudi Patil). Part 3: Crafting with environment.- Chapter 14. Soil Laboratory: Crafting Experiments in an Exhibition Setting.- Chapter 15. The Many Lives of a Tree: Speculative Fiction on Environmental Reshaping Processes and its Discursive Symptoms (Ana Sarvanovic et al.).- Chapter 16. Listening to a Magmatic rock: Volatility of More-than-human Agency when Crafting-with Larvikite (Biljana C. Fredriksen et al.).- Chapter 17. Wind as a Crafting Agent? (Alison Clark).- Chapter 18. Landless Like the Wind (Elly Yazdanpanah).- Chapter 19. Soil Matters: Merging Field, Laboratory and Gallery to Explore the Materiality of Soil (Riikka Latva-Somppi).-Chapter 20. Nurture-by-Nature in Affordance-Need Context (Jun Hu).
