> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Helle Severinsen > Reference::https://formkraft.dk/en/sustainable-future-through-sensory-revolution/ > Date:: 2024 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Environmental value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft encourages greater care of the environment]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > The material basis of craft serves a need for connection with matter. ### Highlights handmade ceramics, which ooze time, craftsmanship and are created in an easily decodable material, have found their way into many homes in recent years. Jane Bennett’s book Vibrant Matter: > Why advocate the vitality of matter? Because my hunch is that the image of dead or thoroughly instrumentalized matter feeds human hubris and our earth-destroying fantasies of conquest and consumption. It does so by preventing us from detecting (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling) a fuller range of the nonhuman powers circulating around and within human bodies.