Craft and design practice from an embodied perspective

Abstract

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Preface / Nithikul Nimkulrat and Camilla Groth -- Introduction / Camilla Groth and Nithikul Nimkulrat -- Dynamic affordances in human-material "dialogues" / Camilla Groth and Michael Kimmel -- Craft thinking : a relational approach to making and design / Ingar Brinck -- Becoming with glass : medium and materiality in embodied knowledge / Erin O'Connor -- Feeling how : MET and embodied cognition in the learning of pottery skills / Catherine O'Brien and Lambros Malafouris -- Embodied craft practices : mindful flow, creativity, and collaboration as drivers for wellbeing / Kristina Niedderer and Katherine Townsend -- Embodied knowledge integrated into robotic wire cutting of clay / Flemming Tvede Hansen -- Making, playing, crafting : connecting embodied practices in play, game design, and hybrid making / Michael Nitsche and Jihan Sherman -- Hand thought : hybrid practices and a digital craft ethos / Justin Marshall -- Grasping materiality : digitalization in light of educational arts and crafts practice / Lovise Søyland -- Traces of craft experience in artefacts / Nithikul Nimkulrat -- Scaffolding visualization and mental rotation in designing and crafting / Marte S. Gulliksen & Camilla Groth -- Making bumps and jumping hurdles : understanding resistance in the processes of raising aluminium from a novice's perspective / Anniken Randers-Pehrson -- Making sense with things in participatory design / Jelle van Dijk -- Interactive connected smart (ICS) materials experience : collaborative embodied knowledge through material tinkering / Stefano Parisi, Venere Ferraro, and Valentina Rognoli -- Afterword / Tim Ingold.