It has been said that what we make in turn makes us. If so, does it matter how we go about making? This talk considers calls for the failed meta-narrative of progress to be countered with the carefulness and authenticity of craft and explores how an outdated romantic notion of craft might itself be ‘remade’.
I will propose three lenses for remaking craft - the idea of proximity as a form of relationality, the notion of relational depth in therapeutic practice, and concepts of co-becoming in new materialism.
Through these I hope to illustrate how craft can offer an alternative attitude to design and progress, at a time when we increasingly understand the environment to no longer be apart from us, but to be a very part of our being.