Ingold -- Thinking through Making

Thinking through Making.
Professor Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Ever since Aristotle, it has been customary in the western tradition to think of making
as a bringing together of a preconceived, ideal form, in the mind of the maker, with an
initially formless mass of raw material. In this view, all the thinking has been done
before the making begins. And for those who encounter the finished object, the thought
can only be recovered by reading back from the work to an idea in the mind of the maker.
Here I present an alternative account of making, as an inherently mindful activity in
which the forms of things are ever-emergent from the correspondence of sensory awareness
and material flows in a process of life. Artefacts and thoughts are the more or less
ephemeral cast-offs of this process, strewn along the way. Rather than imposing form on
matter, the maker -- operating within a field of forces that cut across any divisions
between body and environment -- is caught between the anticipatory reach of the
imagination and the frictional drag of materials.

[@aaronphilipdelacruz2931]

the 'knots' and 'threads' he talked about remind me of Haraway's concept of the cat's cradle in Staying With the Trouble

[@manolitosanchez]

I thought of Tim Morton when mentioning The Mesh... Good bunch of thinkers!

[@nemonemo9407]

its deleuze and guattari. Lines of flight and refrains.

[@0dinseye]

You guys should Zooooooom!

[@jgrzinich]

Next time, please take the audio directly from the podium microphone!!!

[@roseharrison5223]

Mute and use subtitles

[@0dinseye]

💯

[@MrMatchboxman]

I keep expecting Micheal Palin to jump on the stage with a sward, point to Ingold and shout out "There can be only one!".

[@daniel3231995]

he's in nk

[@simonpenny2564]

chatting audience are annoying but its really the fault of the videographer who did not mike the speaker. Hence the echo.

[@FabioLoKi]

totally agree, friend Luneborg lol

[@jonahschild9161]

He simultaneously states that in a meshwork the lines have no beginning or end, and that they have loose ends which are their value which we must follow... Slightly incoherent there, however the majority is powerful ideas, how we move through this world and join cognition to doing. Thinking through making is an antidote to inertia! Let us be constructive and hold the vision of a regenerative future with nourishing food and creativity, actions, for all.

[@MartinDellaVecchia]

Take the audio from the Mic please!

[@snurredingdong]

This is a good example why one should be silent during a lecture! Fucking disrespectfull.

[@teamcrumb]

maybe not disrespectful. maybe disinterested and in the worst room for it.

[@teamcrumb]

noisy prats

[@MargaretHillsdeZ]

What a pity about the audience!!

[@evar1822]

I start disliking PowerPoint

[@petermatthews2180]

So annoying listening to the noisy audience

[@alexc.7103]

The person speaking at the same time than Tim Ingold is really annoying.

[@hazelloveridge9556]

it is probably an interpreter

[@laurenmuller200]

Irritating! Bad audio.