Workshop Documentation

New Ways of Making 10 -21 February 2020

Participants: 32 students from Year 2 and 3, Srishti

Faculty: Naga Nandini, Kartick Ghosh

What is new in New ways of making?

• Push possibilities of processes to experiment and innovate with material

• Making can also be a way of thinking - a way to be reflective and critical

• Making as a reflective activity, as a conversation with the material

• Making to connect to larger issues

The first question – what are you going to make? A blueprint usually

precedes making. But what if we made and then the blue print followed?

Allowing making to inform design, might allow for a different kind of learning, a different kind of thinking. Reflective tools like ‘what, so what, what next’ regularly will help to build the making.

Critical Making

Being a maker basically gets people to look around them, to look around their world, and say, “OK, somebody made this.” This thing, this object didn’t just fall from heaven; somebody made this, they made decisions about it, they made choices about it and those choices are impacting me. And then the next step is recognize those choices as political, as benefiting some people over others.

And the final step is for people to find some agency in regards to this political nature of the built environment. That for me is the ultimate goal of making.

- Matt Ratto

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