“One of the greatest strengths of the digital humanities has been its emergent community practices and values: welcoming an unusual degree of experimentation in methods, communication formats, and community design to achieve our scholarship is the core of some of the best DH.”
Visconti, Amanda , et al. “#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse.” Korean Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 1, no. 1, May. 2024, pp. 74, https://doi.org/10.23287/KJDH.2024.1.1.5
This quote stuck with me because it highlights how diverse digital humanities really is. It emphasizes the importance of diversity in methods which is at the core of digital humanities. I am a firm believer that having diversity of thought is crucial to allow creativity to really flourish and produce strong final products, and it feels like there is a sort of flexibility within the field of digital humanities that allows that to happen. This concept seems to be prevalent in many other fields as well where there is a great strength in diversity not only in thoughts and ideas but also in practice and methods.
In the paper “#DHmakes: Baking Craft into DH Discourse,” the authors dedicate a segment where they highlight craft-centered making in digital humanities, a change of pace from the emphasis on making things with computers. Various handmade crafts were displayed in order to claim that physical objects can also be considered to be part of digital humanities. Seeing the wide range of things that were created made me more interested in learning how to make my own objects with the help of technology.
I’m eager to learn about the creation of pieces through 3D modeling as well as learning all the strategies when producing them. I’ve always enjoyed making things in art classes, but I’ve never really been good at it, and I feel that the technological tools that are widely available will make the process more enjoyable. I’m also curious to learn about any other areas of digital humanities that don’t place a heavy emphasis on creating with technology and their purpose.
