so, i have been con­tem­plat­ing what to do with this site. i mean here is sits and could/should be doing a whole lot more. it is a near trav­esty that it has been nearly 7 months since my pre­vi­ous post. sad…terribly, ter­ri­bly sad.

that said, i think i have finally hit upon what this place needs to be.

i have begun a new research project and need a place to amass my think­ing, mak­ing and find­ing of mate­ri­als. why not here? my topic is based on the need for craft in design think­ing. of course, you can have an amaz­ing idea, but if the exe­cu­tion is not there or done poorly, well then you really will have exe­cuted the idea. all the the­ory and grandil­o­quent think­ing is not going to make an idea any bet­ter than the amount of work­man­ship / crafts­man­ship that goes into its production—its actual phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tion, if the hand and eye are not in accord—the idea is as well as dead upon arrival.

to that end, mak­ing & think­ing from hence­forth will func­tion as an exter­nal brain (for me and any inter­ested) on the inter­sec­tions of crafts­man­ship, design think­ing, design edu­ca­tion, design the­ory, kines­thetic learn­ing and the process of mak­ing and think­ing though the hands and the hap­tic con­nec­tion of mate­ri­al­ity as a means to think­ing and learning.

whew…grandiloquent indeed.

here is to hop­ing i can keep this sus­tained a bit longer than pre­vi­ous efforts.