Arts and Crafts
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Arts and Crafts is a catch-all sub-category of knowledge creation that covers all the ways that humans direcly engage the ecosystem through metaphor and material use. Arts and crafts have been de-emphasized through industrialization of production, but for thousands of years has been a mechanism through which humans directly engaged ecosystems, and generated Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Science. It engages different mechanisms for observation, synthesis, and storage than other forms of Knowledge Creation. It is strongly referenced by Bioregionalism. Its is largely absent in Funding and Regulation systems, and not represented in the Academic systems that inform Research and much of our Education and its current emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Some Advocacy efforts still use direct engagement with ecosystems to develop a personal experience of belonging and relationship with ecosystems.
