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The craft sensibility

The craft sensibility. Quality-driven work; the engaged human maker. Getting better, not getting by. The passing down of skills: not genius, not originality…yet there is innovation Impersonality and communal standards Problem solving and problem finding Bedding in and tacit knowledge

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The craft sensibility

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  1. The craft sensibility • Quality-driven work; the engaged human maker. • Getting better, not getting by. • The passing down of skills: not genius, not originality…yet there is innovation • Impersonality and communal standards • Problem solving and problem finding • Bedding in and tacit knowledge • Tacit knowledge and explicit critique

  2. What’s troubling the craft sensibility? (p. 52)

  3. Craft and machines • Background • Homo faber: man as maker • The craft sensibility • Concepts: “mirror-tools”; investing in things we can change • Intellectual history: how consciousness shifts in reaction to “the anxiety of riches”

  4. The Enlightenment • The “age of reason”; human rights; political revolution; scientific progress • Diderot’s encyclopedia: a history of man-as-maker • Papermaking: human limitations and harmonious relations with the machine • Glassmaking: “salutary failure” and imperfect glass as satisfactorily human

  5. The Romantic era and industrialism • Mechanical domination and John Ruskin’s response • Ruskin’s agenda • Ruskin and Diderot in conversation

  6. History of ideas and the expressive individual • The Renaissance and the emergence of the artist • The Enlightenment and affirming human imperfection • The Romantics rage against the machine

  7. Material consciousness in the 21st century? • Etsy and craft resurgence • Digital making as craft? • Creative expression: the commons as “clay”

  8. The workshop • Knowledge transfer • Authority and autonomy • The role of the model: propose, not command • Pages 103, 104, 105-6

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