In thinking about how we design, build, cultivate and nurture, Tim Manners at Reveries shares a wonderful insight:
In The Craftsman, Richard Sennett "gathers case after case in which we see how the work of the hand can inform the work of the mind," writes Lewis Hyde in a New York Times book review (4/6/08). Richard's assumption is that we all have abilities as "craftsmen" and that pursuing those abilities "enables people to govern themselves and so become good citizens." In so doing, we can learn "how to negotiate between autonomy and authority (as one must in any workshop); how to work not against resistant forces but with them (as did the engineers who first drilled tunnels beneath the Thames); how to complete tasks using 'minimum force' (as do all chefs who must chop vegetables) ... and above all ... how to play, for it is in play that we find 'the origin of the dialogue that the craftsman conducts with materials like clay and glass'."
