What would happen if we got over our love affair with creators? What would happen if we collapsed the distinction between maker and taker, consumer and producer, not by \u201cmoving people from consumption to production\u201d, but by eliminating the distinction? What if we saw careful curation of material as better than unconsidered personal expression? Which linked to this:<\/p>\n You see critiquing isn\u2019t a review where you let fly with your opinion, no the purpose of the critique is to make the work stronger, better, and more fitting.<\/strong> Then:<\/p>\n Walk through a museum. Look around a city. Almost all the artifacts that we value as a society were made by or at the the order of men. But behind every one is an invisible infrastructure of labour\u2014primarily caregiving, in its various aspects\u2014that is mostly performed by women. And:<\/p>\n A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: \u201cWe\u2019ve begun to raise daughters more like sons\u2026 but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.\u201d Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the traditionally male domain of making, has focused on the first. But its success means that it further devalues the traditionally female domain of caregiving, by continuing to enforce the idea that only making things is valuable. Rather, I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others\u2014above all, the caregivers\u2014whose work isn\u2019t about something you can put in a box and sell. Finally:<\/p>\n I\u2019m always fascinated to see how my work in ed-tech is deemed \u201cemotional\u201d or dismissed as merely \u201ccultural analysis\u201d \u2013 gendered descriptions of what I do (subtly, overtly) perhaps. I\u2019ve not come to any conclusions here but it makes<\/em> me think.<\/p>\n I got up this morning and didn\u2019t make the bed, made some breakfast and just caught the earlier train. This let me make the walk from Waverley down to work rather than catch a bus.<\/p>\n Watching the scaffolders run scaffolding up a new building, helping complete the Architect\u2019s vision, hoping to get to work in time for the barista to make me some coffee before the first meeting.<\/p>\n As I walked I am making this list; Wondering if a found poem is made, our national poet<\/a> is called the Scots Makar; If I write a poem from the names of boats in a harbour<\/a> am I a maker or curator; Artists, it seems to me, depend on other artists, critics, curators and caregivers for their making.<\/p>\n Finally I am thinking about DS106 Art on the couch<\/a> my friend Mariana’s thoughts about learning thro critique.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cUsers\u201d | Hapgood<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nCritique & Creation | Heart | Soul | Machine<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMetafoundry 15: Scribbled Leatherjackets<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why I Am Not a Maker – Atlantic Mobile<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nRe-Building the Blog<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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