Posted by On March 7, 2022, I gave a talk titled, “Craft and Computation: Grounding our field in the social world” at the Media Arts & Technology (MAT) Seminar Series at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Abstract
Craft practices, knowledges, and communities are disappearing. These practices carry with them histories and cultures of people, knowledges, and social ties to communities. Some reasons for their disappearance include dying practitioners, lacking pedagogy, changing practices, and technocentric developments. How might we employ computation in the restoration, remediation, and reconfiguration of these practices, knowledges, and communities? Additionally, how might knowledges and innovations in these crafts, repair problems and improve research, practice, and pedagogy in computational design? This presentation will share my research into craft and computation such that our field touches the ground, communities, and critically considers access.