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Making Civic Crafts

Making Civic Crafts

Von Busch, Otto
Hansson, Helena
Hallberg, Karl

Paperback

Series: Craft for Social Change

General Art InstructionGeneral Political Science

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 30, 2026

ISBN10: 1956313508
ISBN13: 9781956313505
Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 150
Language: English

In a time of growing loneliness, polarization, and civic disengagement, Making Civic Crafts offers a powerful and hopeful alternative: build things together. Drawing on workshops, teaching experiments, and collaborative construction projects, Otto von Busch, Karl Hallberg, and Helena Hansson show how shared making can cultivate agency, care, responsibility, and democratic participation. From snow forts and coffee carts to benches and communal tools, the book reveals how even modest acts of collective craft can create belonging, strengthen communities, and bring people into meaningful public life. Blending craft theory, political thought, and hands-on pedagogy, Making Civic Crafts reimagines craft as more than a creative practice--it is a tool for civic renewal. Engaging, accessible, and deeply relevant, this book invites readers to see civics not as an abstract system, but as something we make together. Here, craft is so much more than a do-it-yourself activity. It is a superpower for building community, one project, one relationship, and one shared endeavor at a time.

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