Reflections on Hands-On - Web Page

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Introduction - Reflections on Hands-on Teaching and Learning

Why engage in Hands-on activities? Our philosophy and skills Videos Lectures, links to our reflections on hands-on teaching List of articles (from M&K website)

RSA 2020: panels - (presented in virtual RSA 2021) we may be able to use these as they are - 4 panels of papers

Gather publications, lectures, or other products produced by the project - include them here

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Add the following to reflections page (only this lecture, not others): “Science and Art in a Sixteenth-Century Workshop: Hands-On History in the Making and Knowing Project,” Elizabeth McNab Lecture, McGill University, 22 March, 2021 (online), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ9awV-L0pM Interview and article on Making and Knowing, Could Doing Things The Old-Fashioned Way Make Us Better Modern Scientists? Popular Science, Spring 2020

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Add Tianna lecture??: Recipes for Failure: Experimenting, Repairing, and Quitting in Renaissance Toulouse, Tianna Uchacz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, November 2020 PHS has reached out to THU

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Add Weaving Knowledge website and Lan's Weaving videos to the site (vimeo and linked here: https://www.makingandknowing.org/collaborators/) Add Sian Lewis video to Reflections.

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Add The Recipes Project, “A Recipe for Recipe Research: The Making and Knowing Project,” February 2016. See also “Making ‘Powder for Hourglasses’ in the Early Modern Household.” From Postdocs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YQXLGiKb-mKSLs4qyF7tWcSSns7ryHT6vtTmP6VUIaU/edit

Taape, Tillmann. ‘Orphelins du savoir-faire: la recette en édition numérique et au laboratoire Making and Knowing’. In Entre l’atelier et la cour: la recette du XIIe au XVIIe siècle, edited by Bruno Laurioux and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, 461–92. SISMEL, 2023.

Sophie Pitman, ‘A Dyeing Art: Reconstructing Rosetti's Plictho’ in ed. Maria Hayward, Giorgio Riello, Ulinka Rublack, A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400-1800 (Bloomsbury), forthcoming 2024 (NB: this is about the importance of hands-on reconstruction of early modern recipes)

A panel discussion between scholars, curators, and creators including Deborah Krohn (Bard Graduate Center), Johnathan Tavares (Art Institute, Chicago), and Tracy Drier, Distinguished Master Glassblower (UW Madison) about how reconstructed objects and remaking methods can be used in innovative museum exhibitions and classroom teaching. Chaired by Sophie Pitman, curator of Remaking the Renaissance. There will soon be a recording of this panel discussion available online - I will share when it is uploaded: https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/remaking-objects-in-the-classroom-and-the-museum-a-panel-discussion/

‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition, Science History Institute Online Exhibition (hosted by Google Arts and Culture), 2021

(NB: Features a Video about Refashioning the Renaissance / Making and Knowing Collaboration to highlight the importance of hands-on engagement with materials)

Sophie Pitman, Interview about the importance of working across art/science boundaries (or living/non living boundaries), Outre: Encounters with Non/living Things exhibition (2021).Interview with Refashioning the Renaissance Team | Aalto University and https://www.aalto.fi/en/research-art/refashioning-the-renaissance-team-imitation-amber-imitation-leopard-fur

“Knowing by Making” Episode of the Refashioning Podcast with Sophie Pitman and Pamela Smith, https://soundcloud.com/user-265326599/2-making-by-knowing-with-pamela-smith?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Have done most of this, but still an open issue whether to add literature citations to M&K articles. Also, still need to add PHS lecture, Christina Neilson, Sofia Gans, Vera Keller lectures to Reflections page.

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Reflections on Hands-On page is complete except for Bibliography - working here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YHJz84mDATWFa4VQ0KqJhFnBzw0lWZgxTm-LDrvyEKU/edit#heading=h.815oo2xuc86r Also will add Vera Keller's video when it's finished.