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A Love Letter to Ironing: Learning and Unlearning

What does ironing have in common with learning to build a digital world? This photo essay explores the nature of learning and unlearning through the juxtaposition of skills, specifically ironing, a competency acquired for the most part through unconscious absorption, vs. creating in a digital medium where our learning was much more self-conscious. In learning to build and programme 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 photo essay is written in a lyrical style to encompass both the prosaic and poetic ways that we engaged with a project titled, Craft & The Digital Turn (CDT). 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.

Published in the academic journal Virtual Creativity, see journal abstract.

Photo Essay: Tricia Crivellaro, Lynne Heller, Kathleen Morris

Ironing Stories: Tricia Crivellaro, Lynne Heller, Shiemara Hogarth, Dorie Millerson, Pablo Montenegro, Kathleen Morris

Text Edit: Ivana Dizdar