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Janet Abrams reviews Radical Craft, the second Art Center design conference. Here's a taste:

Here, and in Danny Hillis' and Jonathan Ive's talks, we got closest to the essence of craft, as a very delicate, tentative, and maybe even private activity, involving preparedness to fail, and try again, and experiment, and tolerate not knowing what the outcome of this process may be "useful" for. A stage of provisional knowledge, refined through repetition, of finding-out-in-the-making, leading to skills that can be consciously applied.

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