I feel like these prompts are getting redundant. But anyways, my maker manifesto, or mission statement cant really be defined. Because I don't want to limit myself to a specific category. I mean I could say that my making is of the good. The good being a broad statement that encompasses the good for me or the good for the society, or the good just for being good. Aristotle says that the good is something that is in it of itself, it is the end product. There is good which is useful or in other words the things we do to live, but there is also the good, which is things we do just because we can. So I can do good or the good with my making. I can do good by making something for personal use, so as means to an end. Or I can do the good and make just for the hell of it. Or I could make to better society or our community via ideas or prototypes. I don't feel like making should be tied down to one definition. Because if it is, then that is when we loose all intelligent or creative imagination.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Maker Mission Statement
I feel like these prompts are getting redundant. But anyways, my maker manifesto, or mission statement cant really be defined. Because I don't want to limit myself to a specific category. I mean I could say that my making is of the good. The good being a broad statement that encompasses the good for me or the good for the society, or the good just for being good. Aristotle says that the good is something that is in it of itself, it is the end product. There is good which is useful or in other words the things we do to live, but there is also the good, which is things we do just because we can. So I can do good or the good with my making. I can do good by making something for personal use, so as means to an end. Or I can do the good and make just for the hell of it. Or I could make to better society or our community via ideas or prototypes. I don't feel like making should be tied down to one definition. Because if it is, then that is when we loose all intelligent or creative imagination.
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Hi Ashlyn, Some of the prompts cycle through with the hopes that you will be deepening your responses to the prompts as you go. A maker manifesto is a call to glory of sorts-- how would you be able to base it around the idea that you are not defining a maker, but declaring possibility?
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