The Art of Critical Making: Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Notes -- The Art of Critical Making: An Introduction -- Groundwork -- Lesson #1: Begin by looking at options, which is different from acting at random -- Lesson #2: learn to see by thinking more complexly about visibility -- Lesson #3: Use everything that you know and record everything -- Lesson #4: Don't try to get to the end without taking all the steps necessary to get there -- Lesson #5: Understand that what you are learning is not the same thing as what is being taught -- Notes -- Text and Context: Outward in All Directions -- Notes -- Conversation: Drawing -- Notes -- Thingking -- Notes -- Object Lessons -- Notes -- Conversation: Materials -- Anais Missakian, Professor and Department Head, Textiles -- Jocelyne Prince, Assistant Professor, Glass -- Eric Anderson, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture -- Mark Pompelia, Visual + Material Resource Librarian, Fleet Library at RISD -- Notes -- Graphic Design, Storytelling, and the Making of Meaning -- Notes -- The Nature Imperative -- Hands-on Learning and Personal Taxonomies -- Biological Guides: Inspiration and Innovation -- Scientific Methods: Microscopy and Mental Imaging -- The Human-Nature Connection and Our Future -- Notes -- Conversation: Critique -- Christina Bertoni, Professor, Foundation Studies -- Elliott Romano, BFA 2013 Photography -- Norm Paris, Assistant Professor, Foundation Studies -- Ian Stell, MFA 2012 Furniture Design -- Daniel Hewett, Critic, Landscape Architecture -- Eva Sutton, Professor, Photography -- Acting into the Unknown -- 1. Beware generalization -- 2. Attention coexists with intention -- 3. Guessing is a valid form of logic -- 4. Expect uncertainty -- 5. Communicate toward joint action -- 6. Practice, practice, practice.

7. Don't be afraid to fail /be afraid to fail -- Notes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Index.