Description
We live in times of extreme change. There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium. What can be learnt from their creative moxie as innovators outside establishment powers? Why has their creative reach grown exponentially in our globally connected twenty-first century? How have their abilities to innovate been catalyzed without subscription to knowledge hierarchies and monopolies? These culturally dexterous movers who possess movement capital, advanced with every migration, have translated ancient maker and craft skills into transforming modern technology, science, design, architecture, and the arts. Generous, inclusive, and deeply collaborative, they are at the heart of open source sharing for collective intelligence, the common good, and the maker movement. They invigorate the economies they reside in greatly enhancing creative capacities and reach. Bhachu, herself a multiple-migrant maker, offers us a model for a hopeful way forward, bringing her unique ethnographic insights to illuminate what can be learnt about thriving in worlds of flux.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Maker origins and migrant creativity
2. Kuljit Bhamra: artisanal music maker and democratizer of musical knowledge
3. Bhajan Hunjan: architectural artist - expansive collaboration and material daring
4. Amarjit Kalsi: lyrical architect and virtuoso draughtsman
5. Jasleen Kaur: jugaadhan and artist-designer of border-crossing dialogue
6. Rishi Rich, fearless sound shaper, and Jay Sean, path-breaking singer-songwriter
7. The Singh Twins: multi-faceted makers and defiant disruptors of the artistic status quo
8. Suneet Singh Tuli: technologist seeking the maximum good – computing power for the billions
9. Jatinder Verma: cartographer of spectacular, inclusive theater
10. Professor Sir Tejinder Virdee: extreme engineering and the quest for the 'god particle'
Conclusion. The immigrant imperative - sharing and contributing for the common good
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