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Journal Article
Research-Creation for the Community: Pedagogy, Feminist Maker Cultures, and the Critical Work of Making Face Masks in the Time of Covid-19
2018
Overview
Some common themes of the class were: unequal access to resources depending on economic or socio-cultural backgrounds; issues with short-term problem-solving for climate crisis, natural resources, and natural/human/non-human ecologies; and a lack of transparency about processes of the capital circuit (production, distribution, consumption). In March 2020, my class and I noticed several news stories about essential objects in the pandemic, as well as various Canadian responses to these objects: i) a lack of Personal Protective Equipment (ppe) for frontline workers, especially items such as face masks, gowns, hair caps, and visors; ii) technological companies as small as start-ups and as large as gm helping to make ppe with industrial machines that usually construct things like car parts. [...]if reimagined as research-creation, the usually invisible forms of making that occur in socially \"private\" and feminized spaces of labour- such as sewing rooms, kitchens, and offices-must also be understood through the language that is more commonly applied to innovative tech companies: performing critical and creative thinking in production and applying material skills to produce new objects. [...]questions about stages of the capital circuit were combined with theoretical readings to ground class projects in critical thinking and design-or, to create what my colleague Marcel O'Gorman calls \"objects to think with\" One student, Oriana Confente, turned an unwanted keyboard matrix into a handbag, in response to planned obsolescence and unethical e-waste \"recycling\" Another student, Chelsea La Vecchia, patched up an old pair of jeans using a decades-old, \"obsolete\" sewing machine, such that the labour of sewing served to advocate for the right to repair and to retaliate against trends in fast fashion.
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Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English,ESC: English Studies in Canada
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