• See Me Make,
  • Make me See

Publication
2025


Editors
Assistant editors


Design
Illustrations
Photos

Authors
  • Åsa Dybwad Norman & Ben Lignel
  • Sofie Alm Nordsveen (HDK-Valand), 
  • Carla Rotenberg (Aalto), 
  • Iliana Papadimitriou (KHiO)
  • Ben Lignel
  • Fanny Schwarz
  • Ben Lignel, Abrakadabra, Sebastian Kok 
  • & Vihar Kotecha
  • Sara Clugage, Åsa Dybwad Norman, 
  • Evelina Hedin, Ben Lignel, 
  • Martine Aadne Gulliksen, 
  • Elena Aldrighetti, Sofie Alm Nordsveen, 
  • Esther Dullinger, Juliana Gómez, 
  • Dan Grönlund, Anja Hallek, 
  • Jenny Hamrell, Sara Marie Hødnebø, 
  • Samira Khoshbakht, Karolina Konarska, 
  • Maike Panz, Iliana Papadimitriou, 
  • Hana Rehorčíková, Ann-Maj Risgaard, 
  • Zoë Robertson, Sorrell Van Allen, 
  • Hailey Robinson, Carla Rotenberg, 
  • Anna-Maria Saar, Fanny Schwarz, 

  • Daniel Schiechl, Tove Starfelt, 
  • Shiyao Sun & Seo Young Lee.


What do we see when watching people make? What words can do justice to haptic and tacit knowledge and skills deployed by schooled and self-taught makers, at home, in the street, or in dedicated making environments? These questions informed “durational observation” workshops and a writing assignment in 2024-2025 at HDK-Valand, KHiO and Aalto university, in a transnational effort to develop a toolbox for looking at, and talking about, making. The essays and descriptions gathered in this publication pay tribute to craft students’ fine-tuned knowledge, and to the precision of their observation.



This project has been generously funded by Norwegian Crafts, Nordisk Kulturfond, Nordisk Kulturkontakt, Göteborgs Slöjdförening, Estrid Ericssons Stiftelse and ArtMonitor.




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