The art of critical making
Subtitle: Rhode Island School of Design on creative practice
By: edited by Rosanne Somerson and Mara L. Hermano ; foreword by John Maeda
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781118517864
Subjects: Art; Creative teaching; Study and teaching (Higher); Design; Creative thinking; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Rhode Island School of Design
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John Maeda; title: Preface / Frank R. Wilson; title: The art of critical making: an introduction / Rosanne Somerson; title: Groundwork / Leslie Hirst; title: Text and context: outward in all directions / Daniel Cavicchi; title: Conversation: drawing / Patricia C. Phillips; title: Thingking / John Dunnigan; title: Object lessons / Sarah Ganz Blythe; title: Conversation: materials / Kelly Dobson; title: Graphic design, storytelling, and the making of meaning / Lucinda Hitchcock; title: The nature imperative / Neal Overstrom; title: Conversation: critique / Eva Sutton; title: Acting into the unknown / Pradeep Sharma; title: Afterword / Mara L. Hermano.