Maker Movement: creating knowledge through basic intention
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2017-12
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en
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12
129–141
129–141
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Techne Series: Research in Sloyd Education and Crafts Science, Volume 24, issue 2
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Maker movement is often celebrated as a rekindled interest in making by hand, as well as a promise for new forms of manufacturing and economic growth. In contrast to this popularized image, the theoretical background in the maker movement remains ambivalent. This article takes a look at the theoretical foundation of the maker movement and proposes a phenomenological approach to making by hand as a framework for maker movement. A particular focus is on the knowledge making process in the maker movement following Finnish craft researcher Kojonkoski-Rännäli's account of making by hand. Basing her theory on Martin Heidegger’s philosophical analysis, Kojonkoski-Rännäli sees making by hand an essential way of existing in the world: making by hand develops not only maker’s handicraft skills but also her/his knowledge, responsibility and caring for the world as it appears to her/him through the act of making. In this paper, I explore maker movements’ relation to Kojonkoski-Rännäli’s philosophy of making by hand. Moreover, I focus on how the maker movements approach to digital and digitalization relate to making by hand.Description
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Maker movement, code literacy, craft education, philosophy, making by hand
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Dufva, T 2017, ' Maker Movement : creating knowledge through basic intention ', Techne Series: Research in Sloyd Education and Crafts Science, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 129–141 . < https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/techneA/article/view/1910 >