Maker-Material Creative Embodiments in Collaborative Making

Abstract

Making opens up dialogic learning spaces where makers engage with the material world via embodied enactments. The article aims to contribute to the understanding of embodied sociomaterial entanglements where makers and materials encounter to form collaborative networks. In this study, we follow the encounters between makers and materials in design problem solving scenarios to uncover embodied material experiences leading to creative movements. We specifically look at a making context where novice makers collaboratively work on design problem solving, through the combined theoretical aspects of constructionism and posthumanism. Our findings suggest that the makers’ embodied experiences were entangled with material elements of the situated making contexts and shaped the opportunities for learning. Makers and materials composed the embodied actions through which domain related concepts manifested.