> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Stephanie Bunn et call > Reference:: https://ruthincraftcentre.org.uk/exhibitions/forces-in-translation > Date:: 2021 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Scientific value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft enhances creativity]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Basket weaving enhances spatial and geometric understanding. ### Highlights Forces in Translation works at the interface between basketry, mathematics and anthropology. The group explores how the bodily knowledge in basket-weaving enhances spatial and geometric understanding through the gestural moves we make and bodily skills we use. The making process, from material to artefact, from plant to basket, further reveals important links with innovative and design thinking, from planning and problem-solving, to dexterity, attention focus and creating narratives. This has relevance for education, spatial awareness, geometric understanding, and creativity. >Making things provides an active bridge to understanding space, geometry and environmental forces, and is an important tool in learning mathematical concepts, design and engineering. This is a collaboration between anthropologist Stephanie Bunn, mathematician Ricardo Nemirovsky, technological anthropologist Cathrine Hasse and basketmakers Geraldine Jones, Hilary Burns and Mary Crabb. It is a Royal Society/Apex funded project.