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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790547603321

Titolo

The art of critical making : Rhode Island School of Design on creative practice / / edited by Roseanne Somerson and Mara L. Hermano ; foreword byJohn Maeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & sons, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-76403-X

1-118-76395-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HermanoMara

SomersonRoseanne

Disciplina

779.2

Soggetti

Art - Study and teaching - Rhode Island - Providence

Creative ability

Design - Study and teaching - Rhode Island - Providence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Art of Critical Making: Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Notes; The Art of Critical Making: An Introduction; Groundwork; Lesson #1: Begin by looking at options, which is different from acting at random; Lesson #2: learn to see by thinking more complexly about visibility; Lesson #3: Use everything that you know and record everything; Lesson #4: Don't try to get to the end without taking all the steps necessary to get there; Lesson #5: Understand that what you are learning is not the same thing as what is being taught; Notes

Text and Context: Outward in All DirectionsNotes; Conversation: Drawing; Notes; Thingking; Notes; Object Lessons; Notes; Conversation: Materials; Anais Missakian, Professor and Department Head, Textiles; Jocelyne Prince, Assistant Professor, Glass; Eric Anderson, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture; Mark Pompelia, Visual + Material Resource Librarian, Fleet Library at RISD; Notes; Graphic Design, Storytelling, and the Making of Meaning; Notes; The Nature Imperative; Hands-on Learning and Personal Taxonomies; Biological Guides: Inspiration and Innovation



Scientific Methods: Microscopy and Mental ImagingThe Human-Nature Connection and Our Future; Notes; Conversation: Critique; Christina Bertoni, Professor, Foundation Studies; Elliott Romano, BFA 2013 Photography; Norm Paris, Assistant Professor, Foundation Studies; Ian Stell, MFA 2012 Furniture Design; Daniel Hewett, Critic, Landscape Architecture; Eva Sutton, Professor, Photography; Acting into the Unknown; 1. Beware generalization; 2. Attention coexists with intention; 3. Guessing is a valid form of logic; 4. Expect uncertainty; 5. Communicate toward joint action

6. Practice, practice, practice7. Don't be afraid to fail /be afraid to fail; Notes; Afterword; Notes; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Describes the world''s leading approach to art and design taught at Rhode Island School of Design  At Rhode Island School of Design students are immersed in a culture where making questions, ideas, and objects, using and inventing materials, and activating experience all serve to define a form of critical thinking-albeit with one''s hands-i.e. ""critical making."" The Art of Critical Making, by RISD faculty and staff, describes fundamental aspects of RISD''s approach to ""critical making"" and how this can lead to innovation. The process of making taught at RISD is deeply introspective, passi