Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts: Crafting-with the Environment
240Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts: Crafting-with the Environment
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Overview
The chapters of this book give examples of artists' and crafts people's processes of thinking through materials and with materials, but also their reflections on how more-than-humans (animals and plants) craft from available materials, and how the environment and landscapes re-craft themselves through tedious processes of transformation. These case examples are founded on theauthors' own experiences with phenomena they are trying to understand and critically explore.
This book is of interest to professional creative practitioners, art and craft educators, art teacher educators or researchers in the field of creative practices. It has power to inspire rethinking of present educational practices, to ignite critical reflections about materials and more-than humans, and, hopefully, motivate transformations toward more ecologically sustainable ways of life.
Chapters "Crafting in Dialogue with the Material Environment" and "Soil Laboratory: Crafting Experiments in an Exhibition Setting" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.se via link.springer.com.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789811948572 |
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Publisher: | Springer Nature Singapore |
Publication date: | 11/27/2022 |
Series: | Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education , #33 |
Edition description: | 1st ed. 2022 |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Camilla Groth is a craft practitioner, researcher and teacher with a Master from Royal College of Art, London and a Doctor of Arts degree from Aalto University, Helsinki. She has a background in ceramic crafts and many years’ experience of studying, teaching and working in the field of art, design and craft, in Europe and Japan. Her creative work has been exhibited in Tokyo, London, Paris, New York and Helsinki and has been acquired by the Finnish state art commission. Her research interests concern experiential knowledge and materiality. Groth has studied embodied making and learning in craft practice and in her recent work also in interdisciplinary collaboration. She has developed an interdisciplinary educational platform for material thinking and learning that encourages reflection on the student’s relationship with materials. In her role as associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Groth is leading the research group Embodied Making and Learning, in which the aim is to develop knowledge related to embodied making practices, its role for both individuals and the society and the learning that goes on in these human-material interactions.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Human Crafting.-Chapter 1. Introduction (Camilla Groth et al.).- Chapter 2. Eco/multi-centric Approaches to Aesthetic Learning Processes (Helene Illeris et al.).- Chapter 3. Kinship Assemblages: Human and Nonhuman Dialogues through Materiality (Miranda Smitheram et al.).-Chapter 4. Slow Spun: Deep Learning and Teaching with Wool (Lorrie Miller et al.).- Chapter 5. Entangling with Materials: Crafting as a Way of Relating to the World (Bilge Merve Aktaş).- Chapter 6. Crafting in Dialogue with Soil (Maarit Mäkelä).-Chapter 7. Crafting in Dialogue with the Material Environment.- Part 2: More-than-human crafting.- Chapter 8. Three Contemporary Artists’ Collaborative Crafting-with Non-human Living Organisms (Jing Yang et al.).- Chapter 9. Managing Conflicting Desires in a Garden Plant: Crafting-with a Variegated Daylily (Tina Westerlund et al.). Chapter 10. Birds’ Building Masters (Venke Aure etal.).- Chapter 11. Insectography: A Choreographic Crafting of Insects and us (Tone Pernille Østern et al.).- Chapter 12. Desire Lines as Artographic Crafting: Learning-with Wildlife in Rural Canadian Landscapes (Anita Sinner).- Chapter 13. Locating the Hunter: A Tale of Toys, Tigers and Trophies (Koumudi Patil). Part 3: Crafting with environment.- Chapter 14. Soil Laboratory: Crafting Experiments in an Exhibition Setting.- Chapter 15. The Many Lives of a Tree: Speculative Fiction on Environmental Reshaping Processes and its Discursive Symptoms (Ana Sarvanovic et al.).- Chapter 16. Listening to a Magmatic rock: Volatility of More-than-human Agency when Crafting-with Larvikite (Biljana C. Fredriksen et al.).- Chapter 17. Wind as a Crafting Agent? (Alison Clark).- Chapter 18. Landless Like the Wind (Elly Yazdanpanah).- Chapter 19. Soil Matters: Merging Field, Laboratory and Gallery to Explore the Materiality of Soil (Riikka Latva-Somppi).-Chapter 20. Nurture-by-Nature in Affordance-Need Context (Jun Hu).What People are Saying About This
“This is a fascinating account of an emerging philosophy of art, in which all artists are seen to be interacting with some aspect of nature. In the interaction the two change each other. The artist learns about changes already occurring in the environment and how they can be researched and used in her/his practice. The many fascinating examples will be of interest to any artist and especially to art and craft teachers and their students, whether in schools or elsewhere, as well as to researchers in art education.
The book is likely to appeal to both environmentalists and artists, and to researchers and students of both. Some of the many aspects of nature discussed are shearing sheep and alpaca to card and spin their wool, keeping bees, following animal trails, making pottery from various local soils, exploring an abandoned gravel pit. I highly recommend its use by artists, researchers and teachers of art and craft everywhere.” — Professor Michael Parsons, the University of Illinois, Champaign