Course Description
In this course (INF3108H – Crafting Information), students will examine and interrogate craft and materials-based practices in information studies. Topics might include book and paper arts (both historical and contemporary) and their role in GLAM institutions; critical data materialization and visualization using craft techniques (such as materializations of data using textiles, light, and sound); and the intersecting histories of craft and information practices in a variety of cultural contexts. Students will read a variety of theoretical and methodological readings on craft and will be invited to create crafts-based final projects that intersect with their dissertation research.
This course fulfils the “Design, Applied, and Creative Practice” area of the PhD curriculum.