Core+Concepts+EF


 * MEMO CORE CATEGORIES -** Still feeling these out a bit

__Critical-consciousness__—From Freire’s //Pedagogy of the Oppressed//, the idea of Critical consciousness is to gain an in-depth understanding of the world, and to work from that new understanding to recognize oppressive forces and political/social contradictions. I am curious to bring ideas of critical-consciousness, which is typically used in terms of pedagogy and adult literacy, into the Maker culture and to explore what this might do to change how one thinks about innovation and what is being made. I am currently seeking out more current work on Critical-consciousness and fully ensuring that it fits into framework and where I want to go with my research.

__Material Agency__ – Looking at Pickering's “The Mangle of Practice” while also considering Karen Barad’s work, I wish to expound upon their theories of Material Agency and the role that objects and technology have to play in shaping society and situations. This will definitely come up as I look at the physicality of Making and consider how one might incorporate critical-thinking or possibly critical consciousness into making, thus designing what is considered relevant and helpful to make for particular communities. In terms of material agency, I am interested in how it entangles human agency in what Pickering calls a 'dance of agency' which deals with a dialectic of resistance and accommodation, where both the object and the human actor trade-off roles of resistance and accommodation with one another. I would like to contribute to this literature when thinking of Makerspaces and also how lay-people may interact or shape emerging technologies/innovations and vice-versa.

__Technological Citizenship__ -- This is a conceptual framework takes both aspects of citizenship and technology to create the idea of technological citizenship which involves both rights and obligations when considering technological innovation and use and ther role of lay people and experts within the shpaing and use of said technolgy. I need to look into literature and see if this term has come up more recently or if it has been reconfigured by others. I am reading some foundational texts by Frankenfeld regarding this concept. I may expand this idea for use within Makerspaces and take into consideration where the Maker (somewhere in between lay person and scientist -- lay expert?) lies within the technological citizenry and the rights/obligations that come with technological innovation. Possibly as a bridge toward a full technological citizenship among the people, although I think there would need to be more thinking or critical consciousness for technological rights and obligations to take full effect.

__Critical-making & Participatory Design or my own theory thereof __ -- I am thinking of Carl DiSalvo and Matt Ratto when I talk of these things. Possibly Dewey and constructivist learning...still need to flesh this out.

 ***Just some comments after going through class. I am thinking that material agency also feeds into ideas of implicated actors, which have a large role in my work, particularly in the way that technology surrounding the scientific public engagement has transformed** ** temporally and how this emergence of new technology has transformed the public's engagement, knowledge and access to scientific information. Also, how the public has shaped this technology and change **


 * I may take on "Regimes of 'Making'" as a core category in that Making culture is a large part of the research I will do, considering who thinks of themselves as "Makers" and what this does to a person's feeling of empowerment or view of themselves as a citizen, lay-expert or technological citizen. Also, what does this do in terms of critical-consciousness and whether having critical-consciousness changes how people might think of how and why they engage in "Making," or if it does not even come into play in the hegemonic discourse and current trends in "Making."

***Maybe I need to break down "Technological Citizenship" and talk more about what Citizenship is and what it means in terms of Making, Makerspaces and the place for Critical-making and Citizen science.