MINDING MAKING



Harvard University



MINDING MAKING



Harvard University



MINDING MAKING



Harvard University



MINDING MAKING



Harvard University



The MANEUVER



THE BUILDING BLOCK OF OUR PROJECT

The Minding Making project aims to collapse the hierarchical division between "minding" and "making" that has emerged through centuries of privileging head over hand in modern culture.

We endeavor to do this by examining the history and contemporary practice of various "maneuvers": basic physical operations of making that cut across the fine, decorative, and industrial arts. These maneuvers allow us to connect different types of labor and sites of production, revealing forms of material intelligence that span cultural, economic, and historical contexts.



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Minding Making at Harvard



"Minding Making": THe Seminar





Our project supports a graduate seminar that encourages emerging scholars to think dynamically about materials and process in their own work.



"Minding Making" in the museum





Ethan Lasser offers his own reflections on how making can be brought into the museum through the material of silver.



Misexpertise:
Writing about making





Jennifer Roberts reflects on the gap between art and writing, and how making offers ways to conceptualize a bridge between the two. ​



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minding Making


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