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Nearly 25,000 crocheters (“reefers”) have created a worldwide archipelago of more than 50 reefs that make up the Crochet Coral Reef, a long-running project sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt.
The Crochet Coral Reel, a craft-science collaborative artwork by Christine Wertheim and her twin... See more
instagram.comThe Computer Pays Its Debt tells the missing stories of women’s creative contributions to early computing while scrutinizing how corporations leveraged metaphors of craftwork and domesticity for commercial gain.
Center For Craft • The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 | Center for Craft
Craft is contemporary because it is progressive, because creating things by hand yourself proposes an alternative microeconomic of local making, a system of exchange more akin to bartering with its emphasis on trade and tactile connections to supply-and-demand. It is environmentally conscious and respectful of the earth's diminishing resources.
... See moreJulia Bryan-Wilson • Eleven propositions to the question: What is contemporary about craft?
I evoke the term 'handmade web' to suggest slowness and smallness as forms of resistance. In today's highly commercialised web of multinational corporations, proprietary applications, read-only devices, search algorithms, Content Management Systems, WYSIWYG editors, and digital publishers it becomes an increasingly radical act to hand-code and... See more
J. R. Carpenter • J. R. CARPENTER || a Handmade Web
tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question:
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What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the public spaces are actively shaped by us to not only use but live in?
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How do we facilitate serendipitous intimacy on the internet?... See more
How do we make people aware that they are co-inhabiting a space
Patricia Mou • [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.34
