Sennett’s book The Craftsman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) provided significant inspiration for the MAK exhibitionhandiCRAFT: Traditional Skills in the Digital Age, 14.12.2016–9.4.2017.
The American Richard Sennett, one of the most outstanding sociologists and cultural philosophers of the modern age, talks
in his presentation about his deep-rooted interest in the complex topic of handicraft. For Sennett, handicraft and craft skills
involve much more than mere manual dexterity; they encompass a fundamental human impulse—the urge to carry out a task as well
as possible for its own sake. Whether goldsmith, cobbler, politician, pianist, app developer or educator—to practice a craft
is to “know one’s job.”
