TY - JOUR TI - On the design of the humanities AU - Mak, Bonnie AU - Pollack, Julia T2 - interactions AB - In order to recover the “uneventful” activities of the humanities, Mak and Pollak constructed a large wooden cabinet that was exhibited at a local art gallery to an audience of academics, professionals, and community members. Measuring 8 feet wide and 6 feet tall, the cabinet helped visualize and explain the intersecting modalities of research, scholarship, and argument. Mak and Pollack devised physical analogies for the non-palpable activities of the humanities that include reading, reflection, examination, interpretation, and critical analysis. Now embodied with material form, the scholarly practices of the humanities could be picked up, held, and scrutinized by the audience. The creative arts thus offered an unusual and arresting language that permitted us to stage and share how the humanistic argument is itself design. DA - 2016/// PY - 2016 DO - 10.1145/2945291 VL - 23 IS - 4 SP - 76 EP - 79 LA - en SN - 10725520 UR - http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2016/on-the-design-of-the-humanities Y2 - 2019/02/09/00:00:00 KW - Humanities KW - Humanities and higher education KW - Humanities as research activity ER -