Makers, crafters, educators : working for cultural change / edited by Elizabeth Graber, Lisa Hochtritt, and Manisha Sharma.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: makers, crafters, educators: working for cultural change -- Section I. Play and hacking -- The joy of tinkering -- The sewing rebellion -- Tinkering with change: a makerspace at a university art museum -- Material inquiry: digital materials, people, and the relationships between them -- Pedagogy of the hack: El rancho electrónico and the culture of surveillance -- Makerspaces in a university art and design context: resourcing the adult imagination -- DIY in art education and art teacher training in Turkey -- Maker ed: shifting vision, culture, and systems -- Empty bowls, full minds: connecting classroom learning to empirical experiences -- Jugaad in innovative making and crafting in India: examining the work of Sajeev Shankar -- What spinning teaches me -- Section II. Access and equity -- Do-it-yourself movement: a perspective from a Brazilian craft context -- Does outreach equal equity? Thoughts on the impact and challenges of off-site community programs and the struggle to use the arts in achieving social justice -- Contradiction and answering back: trickster in the makerspace for people with disabilities -- Beyond the manifestos: equity and learning in makerspaces -- ArtMakerSpace as tactical pedagogy: meaningful making in a studio art context -- Future fiber feminism and change through craft -- Cave of secrets -- Thinking in water: the process of collaborative craft as social practice -- Two queer academics walk into a makerspace: hacking patriarchy and knowledge -- Xerocraft: makerspaces, democracy, anarchism, and education -- Section III. Interdependence and interdisciplinarity -- DouglaPrieta: sewing together the borderlands, sowing interdependence -- Patterns of repair: sewing with court-involved teens -- Embroidered narratives: threads of the selfie -- The innovation institute: making progress -- The crafts in interdisciplinary curriculum in school -- A letter to my son -- Mongolian artists and craft -- Queering craft: nick cave -- Mawadisidiwag miinwaa wiidanokiindiwag // they visit and work together -- Feminist visual tactics -- Maker culture in Nepal: making vs. making -- Section IV. Cultural and environmental sustainability -- Sacred makers -- The (re)making of culture: annotations of practices in secondary school art in Singapore -- Local roots: bridging southern craft and museum audiences through materials and engagement -- Peruvian artists-crafters-makers -- Crafts as sanctuary for Korean immigrants -- Crafting content for innovative learning in design education -- Sustainable craft practices and space-making in tech design contexts -- From a lost paradise to an elusive utopia: crafts and sustainability -- If fab lab in the answer, what is the question? Maker culture as a method for a sustainable future -- The walls tell the story : making as collective force in the evolution of an earth home community -- Section V. Labor and leisure -- Principles of sustainable creativity: how to make a lifelong creative practice (that you actually enjoy) -- Engaging with grassroots artisans -- Creating a wood carving tradition in Malawi -- Taxi fabric: we the living -- Creating and managing a community education space for arts and crafts in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Developing a collective learning arts space: implications for art educators in diverse settings -- Spotlight on creative Scotland and Dundee visual arts and craft makers award scheme -- Social utopia: craft and progress -- Skilled knowledge and craft education -- Error against the machine: the human case for leisurely imperfection -- On being inconsequential: making, craft, and liquid leisure.