Blog entry

• We tend to use digital tools → which we think of as functional
• Often we don’t think about how those tools affect the output
• We can end up with very similar aesthetics → everyone’s making the same stuff because they are using the same tools
• Thinking through making: become more attitude to how the processes and materials we use affect the output

A Potter’s Book

• How the Japaneese kneads their clay → explained why they do it differently to English students
• As manual making becomes the donkey work, the opposite of industrialisation → what is really going on whilst the hands are kneading and we’re making something?
  • When is it shaping with intent, and when is it just going through the motions?
• By using 3D-printing we miss the first process of kneading the clay → by loosing this part we loose a crucial part of connecting with the material and the output
• Supposed to teach you how to make pots, but it actually doesn’t tell you how to do that, but rather how to knead and work with the material of clay
• Is kneading now donkey work or is it an important part of the process?
• How making is just as important as the output

Karen Barad & Donna harraway

• Donna Harraway is easier to read
• Matter Feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers
  • How matter talks back to you when using clay
  • Be aware of how the processes you use shape the outcome → allowing things like mistakes to happen, and working with processes you wouldn’t expect

<aside> 💡 Perhaps I don’t need to know where my project is going right now? Rather respond to the research, not necessarily as final outcomes → how can the Aboriginal research be used to make?

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• We know because we are of the world
  • We are connected to material and processes, and that’s how knowledge is made