Reading:
von Busch, Otto (2015) Collaborative Craft Capabilities: The Bodyhood of Shared Skills
in The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 6, Issue 2
Definition (Cambridge Dictionary):
Collaboration: noun.
Working with; the situation of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing.
Personal reflections:
The act of collaborating brings new knowledge and enriches both the two parts of it.
They teach each other personal skills that were developed over the years of work and are results reached by dealing situations from a different point of view.
Not always it is easy work with other people, but keeping in mind that own limits might be overcome by other methods not taken in consideration before, helps to accept an hand from another person. On the other hand, it can happen that the other person is in harmony with your activities and then create a synergy between the two workers.
What Sennett describes like “dancers around the cutting saw” explains in a clearly way the same understanding of a cooperation in a working-space. Anyone knows what has to do as own job but knows also how to interact with the colleagues around and not hamper them. This makes flowing well the activity of a workshop. Be part of a team is not a component to give for granted: everyone has a different personality and ability that are important and give great advantageous at the group.
Designers are aware of the importance to be able to work in a team, composed of other professionals, each and everyone with own proficiencies.
It is important to build own competence and abilities dealing in first person with tasks during the upbringing and the education at school. Since childhood, a person earns and develops capacities and talents, useful then in a future job.
In conclusion, collaboration between practitioners is a challenge which produces interesting outcome but more important is the share understanding of different “knowledge bases”. Thank to the Internet, tools that help to follow this practice are developed and give support through platform online or guides and suggestions, such as A designer’s guide to collaboration, written as a final thesis for a MA Communication Design. This website provides key elements, theory, plan project and recommendations for a collaboration, plus case studies as examples for a better understanding.
References:
Sennett, Richard. 2012. Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Definition of “Collaboration”. Available at: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/it/dizionario/inglese/collaboration (accessed November 7,2018).
Essi Salonen. A designer’s guide to collaboration. Available at: http://www.designingcollaboration.com (accessed November 7,2018).
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