The Personal Interview

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Reason and authority : the thought of William Chillingworth

Recent HCI research has highlighted the potential afforded by maker technologies for supporting new forms of DIY Assistive Technology (DIY-AT) for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the popular discourse surrounding both the maker movement and disability is one of democratisation and empowerment. Despite this, critics argue that maker movement membership lacks diversity and that within DIY-AT, it is seldom the people with disabilities who are creating such designs. We conducted a qualitative study that explored how people with disabilities experience the empowering potential of making. We analysed online videos by makers with disabilities and conducted fieldwork at two makerspaces. These informed the design of DIY-Abilities, a series of workshops for people with disabilities in which participants could learn different maker technologies and complete their own maker project. Through analysis of participants' narratives we contribute a new perspective on the specific social and material capacities of accessible maker initiatives.

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Do-It-Yourself Empowerment as Experienced by Novice Makers with Disabilities

Makerspaces public workshops where makers can share tools and knowledge are a growing resource for amateurs and professionals alike. While the role of makerspaces in innovation and peer learning is widely discussed, we attempt to look at the wider roles that makerspaces play in public life. Through site visits and interviews at makerspaces and similar facilities across the UK, we have identified additional roles that these spaces play: as social spaces, in supporting wellbeing, by serving the needs of the communities they are located in and by reaching out to excluded groups. Based on these findings, we suggest implications and future directions for both makerspace organisers and community researchers.

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Making Community: The Wider Role of Makerspaces in Public Life

Comprising a novel and complementary discourses, this thesis blurs the traditional distinctions between critical theory and creative practice, and contributes new insights into the practice, craft, and theory of the contemporary novel. It stages a praxical enquiry in which the creative texts perform a triple function: as original literature, as documents of process, and as critical enquiry. In so doing the texts add to our understanding of how life history and gender influence literary production, and delineate the nexus of fiction/biography/autobiography, both in terms of the individual writer negotiating the matrix of self and other, and in terms of the author in a wider social and historical context. The main apparatus for this investigation is a work of prose fiction that exploits the ability of the novel to sustain a critical exploration while simultaneously delivering a satisfying narrative. It is a composite text that, I will argue, works as historiographic metafiction to dramatise key events in the apparently disparate lives of three women who are separated by historical and social context. The relationship between the three women becomes visible as the narratives gradually reveal their connections. Via this structure, layers of resonance accrue as the themes outlined above are worked through in this fictional space. 
	Alongside the novel, complementary discourses present the poetics that have been developed in its production. They examine the critical and historical context of my work, articulating insights gained into the novelist’s craft, the nature and purpose of the writer's tool kit, and its relationship with the author's life history. The complementary discourses conclude by offering responses to questions about the interactions between gender, genre and creative processes, before proposing future lines of enquiry into the nature and possibilities of the novel.

Truths and their telling : a novel with complementary discourses

This ground-breaking research defines a new approach for engaging low income and
disenfranchised communities in the creative economy. The authors propose that
demystifying creativity and reframing it as an adaptive productive process can lead to a
flourishing of aspiration and potential among target communities. Through research in
a low income community and among disabled people in Northern England, the authors
found that focusing on rubrics of exploration, play and 'purposeful meandering' tackled
anxieties around creative production and a lack of confidence and self-belief. This
emphasis on all people as cultural producers however needs to connect with clearer
pathways into the creative industries.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17510694.2018.1453770

Strategies for connecting low income communities to the creative economy through play: two case studies in Northern England

Frieder Nake describes the process of digital fabrication as “the embodiment of pure thought” (80). An idea, expressed virtually within a computer drawing program, can be made concrete through the ...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08989575.2018.1445509

“The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography

This essay examines how readers interpret and interact with miniature fiction by completing the narratives in these extremely short stories. This is not to suggest that more traditional short stories have always provided complete narratives, but what we have found with miniature fiction is that the reader is more often required to complete the narrative in order for the story to make sense. At the same time, this inferencing process makes readers respond to these stories as they would to texts belonging to other genres. 
Specifically, we will consider the following pieces of writing: an untitled 6-word story by Graham Swift, ‘The Kids Are Alright’ (148 words) by David Gaffney, ‘Water’ (186 words) by Fred Leebron, and ‘Sparkles’ (175 words) by Louise Yeiser. We have chosen these texts because in our opinion each provides a striking illustration of what ‘short shorts’ require of the reader in order for them to make sense. It could be argued that each text demands more of its readers than the previous; hence the order of our discussion is incremental in terms of the complexity of the texts in question. Common to all four texts are the following: 
•	Inferences made to comprehend the narrative
•	Inferences employed from known social narratives 
•	Inferences of the types used in reading texts from other genres. 
Within this general examination of inferences, factors specific to each text will also be analysed.

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Less is more : completing narratives in miniature fiction

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