The art of critical making : Rhode Island School of Design on creative practice / edited by Rosanne Somerson and Mara L. Hermano ; foreword by John Maeda
Foreword / John Maeda -- Preface / Frank R. Wilson -- The art of critical making: an introduction / Rosanne Somerson -- Groundwork / Leslie Hirst -- Text and context: outward in all directions / Daniel Cavicchi -- Conversation: drawing / Patricia C. Phillips -- Thingking / John Dunnigan -- Object lessons / Sarah Ganz Blythe -- Conversation: materials / Kelly Dobson -- Graphic design, storytelling, and the making of meaning / Lucinda Hitchcock -- The nature imperative / Neal Overstrom -- Conversation: critique / Eva Sutton -- Acting into the unknown / Pradeep Sharma -- Afterword / Mara L. Hermano
Summary:
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.
