Ignite Craft Boston 1: Sarah Kuhn "Thinking With Your Hands"

This talk advocates "craft across the curriculum" in universities. Craft--and I focus particularly on the fiber arts--has a lot to teach us about what is missing from college classrooms, and how we could improve teaching and learning for all students, in all disciplines. Drawing on my own 20 years of experience as a professor, and on my status as a fiber arts dilettante, I will talk about the deep & delightful connections between theory, learning, engagement, and service learning. Craft, in its rightful place, will move from the periphery to the core of our scholarly concerns and professional practice in the university.

Sarah Kuhn learned to sew from her mother, who figured her daughter would never be able to buy clothes off the rack. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, creator of the UML Faculty Learning Community ""Thinking With Things,"" and an associate at the UML Center for Women and Work. During a sabbatical at Olin College of Engineering she created the co-curricular classes ""Sewing for Engineers"" and ""Fiber Arts for Engineers."" Her current research is on thinking with things in higher education.

http://sarah-kuhn.wiki.uml.edu/

Ignite Craft Boston was organized and hosted by the Common Cod Fiber Guild (http://www.commoncod.com/) A Boston area fiber guild with a goal to create a fun and supportive environment for learning and participating in fiber activities.

The first Ignite Craft Boston took place at MIT on Jan 14, 2011.

Ignite Craft: Boston was an Ignite event with a crafty crowd. If you had five minutes on stage to talk about craft in Boston, what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world folks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
http://igniteshow.com/

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