Thursday, May 19, 2011

Craft and Community

I am a regular listener of podcasts and a favourite is Laurie Taylor’s “Thinking Allowed”, from the BBC, where he and his guests discuss current questions relating to sociology
I just listened to an interesting on one on crafts.
Laurie and his two guests,(David Gauntlett and Richard Sennett), discuss various questions

• Does making things really make us happy?
• How does craft contribute to bringing people together?
• How do you create communities?
• What can be considered craft?

You can listen to the show at the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010mrzc

P.S. The second part of the show speaks about fox hunting, so if you have strong views you may want to stop after the craft section.

BTW: There is a Junior Youth craft posting coming soon.

1 comment:

  1. This link on the BBC is fasinating. I really enjoy how it links mondern day craft (making a youtube video) to an older time (making a cathedral.) Thanks for sharing Jim.

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