Reforming Critique: Critical Making as Method and Practice.

This chapter presents the work of four scholar-creators, who were involved in a roundtable on “Revisiting and Renewing Critique” at the 2017 CCLA conference at Ryerson. We discussed how our work at the boundaries of disciplines self-reflexively takes up, problematizes, and extends critical thinking through practice. Critical making, also described as research-creation or research-praxis, is a way of thinking-made-material. Critical makers construct arguments using the forms, materials, and techniques from the domains of carpenters, designers, filmmakers, painters, and digital artists, among many others. These crafted, wellformed arguments feed out of, as well as into, more traditional modes of scholarly inquiry.