Craft and Design Practice From an Embodied Perspective

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.

List of contents

Preface Introduction SECTION I: CRAFT AS EMBODIED MAKING AND LEARNING 1. Dynamic affordances in human-material "dialogues" 2. Craft Thinking: A relational approach to making and design 3. Becoming with glass: Medium and materiality in embodied knowledge 4. Feeling how: MET and embodied cognition in the learning of pottery skills 5. Embodied craft practices: Mindful flow, creativity, and collaboration as drivers for wellbeing SECTION II: MATERIALITY OF MATERIALS AND NON-MATERIALS IN CRAFT 6. Embodied knowledge integrated into robotic wire cutting of clay 7. Making, playing, crafting - Connecting embodied practices in play, game design, and hybrid making 8. Hand thought: Hybrid practices and a digital craft ethos 9. Grasping materiality - Digitalization in light of educational arts and crafts practice SECTION III: ARTEFACTS AS MATERIAL EXTENSIONS OF CRAFT EXPERIENCE 10. Traces of craft experience in artefacts 11. Scaffolding visualization and mental rotation in designing and crafting 12. Making bumps and jumping hurdles: Understanding resistance in the processes of raising aluminium from a novice's perspective 13. Making sense with things in participatory design 14. Interactive connected smart (ICS) materials experience: Collaborative embodied knowledge through material tinkering Afterword

About the author

Nithikul Nimkulrat is Associate Professor at OCAD University, Canada.
Camilla Groth is Associate Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Nithikul (Ocad University Nimkulrat
• Assisted by: Camilla Groth (Editor), Nithikul Nimkulrat (Editor), Nimkulrat Nithikul (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032356815
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235681-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, The arts: general issues, DESIGN / General, ART / History / General, Anthropology, DESIGN / History & Criticism, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Industrial / commercial art & design, Art forms, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, The Arts: art forms, The arts: general topics