Making Things and Beyond

Making Things and Beyond broadly aims at articulating “making” as a new attitude for looking at active and productive human engagements with the world. In this project “making” is provisionally construed as a shift of attention from abstract thought to embodied action, and from the intentions of individual human actors to dynamic contexts of action, entangled with material, social, and cultural forces. Drawing from diverse fields such as philosophy, material culture studies, and design anthropology this project aspires to identify and assemble theoretical commitments that this new attitude entails and position them in dialogue with intellectual traditions in design theory and design research.