Makers, Crafters, Educators - Working for Cultural Change

Makers, Crafters, Educators brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, and examines the politics of cultural change that undergird them. Addressing making and crafting in relation to community and schooling practices, culture, and place, this edited collection positions making as an agent of change in education. In the volume's five sections-Play and Hacking, Access and Equity, Interdependence and Interdisciplinarity, Cultural and Environmental Sustainability, and Labor and Leisure-authors from around the world present a collage of issues and practices connecting object making, participatory culture, and socio-cultural transformation. Offering gateways into cultural practices from six continents, this volume explores the participatory culture of maker and crafter spaces in education and reveals how community sites hold the promise of such socio-cultural transformation.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change Section One: Play and Hacking 2. The Joy of Tinkering 3. The Sewing Rebellion 4. Tinkering with Change: A Makerspace at a University Art Museum 5. Material Inquiry: Digital Materials, People, and the Relationships Between Them 6. Pedagogy of the Hack: El Rancho Electrónico and the Culture of Surveillance 7. Makerspaces in a University Art and Design Context: Resourcing the Adult Imagination 8. DIY in Art Education and Art Teacher Training in Turkey 9. Maker Ed: Shifting Vision, Culture, and Systems 10. Empty Bowls, Full Minds: Connecting Classroom Learning to Empirical Experiences 11. Jugaad in Innovative Making and Crafting in India: Examining the Work of Sanjeev Shankar 12. What Spinning Teaches Me Section Two: Access and Equity 13. Do-It-Yourself Movement: A Perspective from a Brazilian Craft Context 14. Does Outreach Equal Equity? Thoughts on the Impact and Challenges of Off-site Community Programs and the Struggle to Use the Arts in Achieving Social Justice 15. Contradiction and Answering Back: Trickster in the Makerspace for People with Disabilities 16. Beyond the Manifestos: Equity and Learning in Makerspaces 17. ArtMakerSpace as Tactical Pedagogy: Meaningful Making in a Studio Art Context 18. Future Fiber Feminism and Change Through Craft 19. Cave of Secrets 20. Thinking in Water: The Process of Collaborative Craft as Social Practice 21. Two Queer Academics Walk Into a Makerspace: Hacking Patriarchy and Knowledge 22. Xerocraft: Makerspaces, Democracy, Anarchism, and Education Section Three: Interdependence and Interdisciplinarity 23. DouglaPrieta: Sewing Together the Borderlands, Sowing Interdependence 24. Patterns of Repair: Sewing with Court-Involved Teens 25. Embroidered Narratives: Threads of the Selfie 26. The Innovation Institute: Making Progress 27. The Crafts in Interdisciplinary Curriculum in School 28. A Letter to My Son 29. Mongolian Artists and Craft 30. Queering Craft: Nick Cave 31. Mawadisidiwag miinawaa Wiidanokiindiwag // They Visit and Work Together 32. Feminist Visual Tactics 33. Maker Culture in Nepal: Making vs. making Section Four: Cultural and Environmental Sustainability 34. Sacred Makers 35. The (Re)Making of Culture: Annotations of Practices in Secondary School Art in Singapore 36. Local Roots: Bridging Southern Craft and Museum Audiences through Materials and Engagement 37. Peruvian Artists-Crafters-Makers 38. Crafts as Sanctuary for Korean Immigrants 39. Crafting Content for Innovative Learning in Design Education 40. Sustainable Craft Practices and Space-making in Tech Design Contexts 41. From a Lost Paradise to an Elusive Utopia: Crafts and Sustainability 42. If Fab Lab Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Maker Culture as a Method for a Sustainable Future 43. The Walls Tell the Story: Making as Collective Force in the Evolution of an Earth Home Community Section Five: Labor and Leisure 44. Principles of Sustainable Creativity: How to Make a Lifelong Creative Practice (That You Actually Enjoy) 45. Engaging with Grassroots Artisans 46. Creating a Wood Carving Tradition in Malawi 47. Taxi Fabric: We the Living 48. Creating and Managing a Community Education Space for Arts and Crafts in Oaxaca, Mexico 49. Developing a Collective Learning Arts Space: Implications for Art Educators in Diverse Settings 50. Spotlight on Creative Scotland and Dundee Visual Arts and Craft Makers Award Scheme 51. Social Utopia: Craft and Progress 52. Skilled Knowledge and Craft Education 53. Error Against the Machine: The Human Case for Leisurely Imperfection 54. On Being Inconsequential: Making, Craft, and Liquid Leisure

About the author

Elizabeth Garber is Professor Emeritx of Art at the University of Arizona, USA.
Lisa Hochtritt is Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), USA.
Manisha Sharma is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arizona, USA.

Summary

Bringing the do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos of maker and crafter movements into educational environments, authors from around the world offer gateways into cultural practices, explore the participatory culture of maker and crafter spaces in education, and reveal how community sites hold the promise of socio-cultural transformation.

Additional text

"Through stories of contemporary makers throughout the world, art teachers and community artist educators will be inspired to develop their own uniquely situated spaces of making—individually and collaboratively—in the interstices between current practices. Eschewing dichotomies and filled with unexpected juxtapositions of histories, theories, and philosophies with new and ancient making practices, the book provides seemingly endless possible combinations of spinning and shaping new, deeply engaging discourses of thought and hand."
—Olivia Gude, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
"This book offers a delightful array of research, ideas, and tools for thinking about creative practice around the world. Across diverse chapters, with a commendable emphasis on equity and inclusion, the authors show how the integration of making, crafting and learning is vital for building a better world."
—David Gauntlett, Ryerson University, Canada

"Makers, Crafters, and Educators is an insightful, diverse collection of essays highlighting the cultural and artistic practices of making. This book represents a truly diverse group of contexts that effectively showcase how making creates and is created by social, cultural, and historical communities. Written primarily as firsthand accounts, these essays take the reader into the world of craft practices and makerspaces like no other volume on this topic."
—Erica Halverson, University of Wisconsin, USA

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth (University of Arizona Garber
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Garber (Editor), Garber Elizabeth (Editor), Lisa Hochtritt (Editor), Manisha Sharma (Editor), Sharma Manisha (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138896222
• ISBN: 978-1-138-89622-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Art & design, Educational: Arts, general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities