A Shared Human Currency: Craft and Conviviality

Abstract

This thesis explores how we can more meaningfully engage with the world by making useful things with our hands out of natural materials. As we do this more and more, it makes plain the adjacency of our abuse of the natural world and our volunteered dissociation from it in consumer culture. In this thesis, a case will be made for the ritualization of the mundane, finding that the remedies to many of our inherited cultural ills are hidden in the every day stuff that already lives in front of us.