A Love Letter to Ironing: Learning and Unlearning

Lynne Heller

About this exposition

What does ironing have in common with learning to build a digital world? This exposition explores the nature of learning and unlearning through the juxtaposition of skills, specifically ironing, a competency acquired for the most part through unconscious absorption, versus creating in a digital medium where our learning was much more self-conscious. In learning to build and program in Unreal Engine (UE5), a game engine capable of enabling a virtual reality (VR) experience, we learned, once again, what it means to learn. The exposition is written as a lyric essay to encompass both the prosaic and poetic ways that we engaged with a project titled, Craft and the Digital Turn. By using VR as a means of data visualization we sought to bring our craft backgrounds together with future trends in digitalization and communication. Through personal narratives and histories, melded with theory and analysis we hope to record a process that was deeply engaging and extremely challenging for us as practitioners.

type	research exposition
keywords	craft, pedagogy, learning, unlearning, digitality
date	08/09/2022
published	24/02/2024
last modified	24/02/2024
status	published
share status	public
affiliation	OCAD University
copyright	Tricia Crivellaro, Lynne Heller, Shiemara Hogarth, Dorie Millerson, Pablo Montenegro, Kathleen Morris
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	Canadian English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1729745/1729746
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1729745
published in	Research Catalogue
external link	https://craftandthedigitalturn.com

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