Making Things and Teaching the Creative Arts in the Post-Digital Era

<p>This interdisciplinary book critically studies the processes of making art and creative arts education in the post-digital era.</p><p>Drawing from fields such as Philosophy and Pedagogy it demarcates a meaningful understanding of what it is to make art and things and to teach artmaking in this contemporary landscape. The book develops and articulates a phenomenology of aesthetic practices within the post-digital era and covers themes such as the aesthetic practices of making and the experience of an aesthetic act through a digital interface. Chapters also suggest new didactic approaches to understanding and creating form as an integral part of creative arts education in the post-digital era and analyses creative arts pedagogy research in this light. The experience of materials and space both real and virtual are presented for theoretical reflection throughout the book.</p><p>This book will be of interest to scholars working in aesthetics art design public art/public space art education digital culture and human-computer interaction studies.</p>