10.5.21 Material led
'Contemporary discussions of art and technology continue to work on the assumption that making entails the imposition of form upon the material world, by an agent with a design in mind. Against this hylomorphic model of creation, I argue that the forms of things arise within fields of force and flows of material. It is by intervening in these force-fields and following the lines of flow that practitioners make things. In this view, making is a practice of weaving, in which practitioners bind their own pathways or lines of becoming into the texture of material flows comprising the lifeworld. Rather than reading creativity ‘backwards’, from a finished object to an initial intention in the mind of an agent, this entails reading it forwards, in an ongoing generative movement that is at once itinerant, improvisatory and rhythmic.' (Ingold)
Ingold, T. (2009) 'The textility of making' in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 91–102, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep042, Accessed: 10 May 2021
Ingold, T. (2009) 'The textility of making' in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 34, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 91–102, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bep042, Accessed: 10 May 2021