Research By Making

When does making become research?

‘Making isn’t limited to to the production of material artefacts, but can also refer to temporal and ephemeral forms, to language and writing, and to social and embodied practice’ p6

===_thoughts: making can teaching… making can be pedagogical

‘Making becomes research when it is part of an articulated and shared process’ p6

class slides summary:

Making as research can allow you to

• help others to relate to an issue differently (visual / narrative prompts to stimulate imagination and speculation?)
• gain insight into the (im)possibilities of a given form, its aesthetics and effects (LLM experiments)

making-strategies
material-research
process-of-iteration

Useful Q’s
What steps did you take and why?
What happened and what did you learn?

===thought: in terms of my phd, my making is the design-interventions but also my teaching… anything else??