For the reading, I mostly heard a call to “backsourcing”—making a few of our own everyday things—not as nostalgia, but as a way to rebuild attention, pride, and small-scale community. That landed for me in a measured way. I think the idea that knowing how something is made changes how you value it is interesting, and I felt that with the grass rope makings and other small craftings. At the same time, I’m mindful that global supply chains also keep people connected to culture. I’m leaning toward a hybrid: keep the reach of global goods, but deliberately fold in some local making so students get the feel of process, not just the product.
This week’s session made the ideas concrete. The color-matching task flipped “I see green” into “which green, exactly?”—active noticing. Twisting corn husks into rope was better than I expected: thickness drifted, tension exposed weak spots, and the material itself set the pace. I found myself iterating without being told—sense the strand, pick the next husk, adjust, which is basically a hands-on feedback loop. I can imagine using short, focused slices of this as a warm-up or side quest that makes formal ideas a bit more fun and novel.
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