A Species of Spaces
The Social Turn
Museum Site and Display
Political Philosophy
We have all the choice in the world in terms of products, but very little choice in terms of the kind of economy within which those things are made, accessed and used
Whose Economy Reframing the Debate After Neoliberalism Doreen Massey
Other 'material interventions' and the revaluation of making through strategies of repair and maintenance
Making Ecological Politics
A world teeming with impulsive movements, deviations and many other lively (capacious) materialities Influences that pervade, enable, and disrupt us
Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett
Makers work in a world that does not stand still
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Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of the task as it unfolds, mixing the potential for blending or combining matter that already exists into new combinations
Tim Ingold 2010
Making is central to who we are as individuals, what we make as part of everyday practice forms our identities and place in the world
The mundane experience of making, and thus of labour, is resolutely political, a geographical imperative, and a critical means of operating a meaningful relationship with this material life The Quarry as Sculpture : The Place of Making
D A Paton 2013
The making of a building does not stop when the building work is (temporarily) finished. But only really begins upon occupation, when the work commences of maintaining the buildings integrity against an onslaught of willfully destructive elements, insects, rodents, fungal infestations, corrosion, damp, harsh sun, water, wind
Evocative Thoughts on Building, Alvaro Siza
The social life of making
Making good is about maintaining continuity with the past, in the face of efforts to rupture that continuity.
The need for repair is a remorseless and necessary process that keeps society ticking over.
Posted by Russell Moreton on 29 May 2022
