Latest posts tagged with #ThinkingThroughMaking on Bluesky
I don’t design buildings — I make them, because making is about listening, not control.
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In my courses, students not only handle historical texts and objects — they create them. They turn wooden soup bowls, then lacquer them; they build ceramic tea bowls, then use them to brew tea. They compose seasonal poems and construct scale gardens.
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The act of making becomes a heuristic: a way of asking sharper questions, developing closer attention and forging connections between theory and experience.
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The value of such work reaffirms that universities are not only places of abstraction and argument, but sites where knowledge meets skill.
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This is not a new proposal. For much of the 20th century, to be an educated person did not mean being purely cerebral.
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As the historian Dorothy Hartley documented in her indispensable Made in England, knowledge of craft, repair, and fabrication was not the opposite of intellectual life — it was part of it.
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Universities once reflected this ethos. Land-grant institutions in the US were founded to connect the life of the mind with the work of the hands. British polytechnics offered rigorous technical and cultural education side by side.
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Bringing making back into universities, including in the humanities, is an invitation to rethink what literacy means in an era of digital automation.
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This is not about turning literature departments into fabrication labs but considering an interdisciplinary way of teaching.
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Of course, these pedagogies come with challenges. They can be difficult to scale, assess, and fund. But change is already underway.
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We do not need to choose between critique and creativity, elite knowledge and public trust. But we do need to reimagine how these values meet in the classroom.
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Interesting call for papers from the fabulous Art of Fiction project, on stories inspired by and woven through (literal and metaphorical) fabric: artfiction.exeter.ac.uk/events/call-... Closing date 22nd Jan.
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