Recent Books:
Embodied learning and teaching using the 4E approach
This book is a result of a collaboration with the Em-Learning network that consists of educational researchers from various school subjects that all have an interest in embodied cognition and learning.
Abstract for the book:
This book operationalises the new field—EmLearning—that integrates embodiment and grounded cognition perspectives with education using the 4E approach as a guiding principle, which suggests that cognition is embodied, embedded, enacted, or extended.
Chapters highlight empirical data, providing readers with research-based insight into the theoretical foundations of embodied cognition in learning, illustrated by practical examples. Ultimately, the volume contributes a radical understanding of embodied cognition, demonstrating the importance of the field to the educational system more broadly and suggesting a fundamental change to the way learning, education, and curriculum design are viewed and considered. Based on contemporary scientific findings, the book addresses the educational area with a focus on opening the embodied approach to a wider audience that will circulate the new knowledge and support their educational practices.
Written with the purpose of contributing to a broad spectrum of academic educational fields, this book will be of use to postgraduates, researchers, and academics in the fields of higher education, educational psychology, teacher education, and teaching methodology and practice. Teachers and school politicians should also benefit from this volume more broadly.
Craft and design practice from an embodied perspective
This book is the result of a collaboration between me and Nithikul Nimkulrat at the OCAD University in Canada. Our mutual interest in experiential knowledge has led to the collection of chapter’s that investigate craft and design practice from an embodied perspective
Abstract for the book:
This book brings together contributors from multiple disciplines, such as crafts, design, art education, cognitive philosophy, and sociology, to discuss craft and design practice from an embodied perspective.
Through theoretical overviews of embodied cognition and research-based cases that involve the researchers’ making experiences, different phenomena of human‑material interaction are presented, analysed, and discussed. The practical cases exemplify ways in which embodied notions show up in action. Contributors examine topics such as the embodied basis of craft activities and material manipulation, experiential knowledge and skill learning, reflection in and on action, and material dialogues. Several chapters specifically discuss the hybrid forms of analogue and digital crafting that increasingly takes place in the field of crafts and design, and the changed notions of material engagement that this entails.
The book will appeal to scholars of crafts, design, art education, anthropology, and sociology.
Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts; Crafting-with the Environment
Edited by Biljana C. Fredriksen & Camilla Groth
In this collaboration Biljana and me joined forces to explore material dialogues with humans and nonhumans, as the call for papers generated more than 40 proposals, we divided them into two books. The other chapters were edited by Biljana and Per Ingvar Haukeland see the book here
Abstract for this book:
This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness. It discusses the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretical entry points and reflects on the implementation of such theoretical perspectives in education. The practical examples of crafting-with the environment, the material practices and reflections posed in the book, provide insights into possible ways of levelling out human and material hierarchies.
The chapters of this book give examples of artists’ and crafts people’s processes of thinking through materials and with materials, but also their reflections on how more-than-humans (animals and plants) craft from available materials, and how the environment and landscapes re-craft themselves through tedious processes of transformation. These case examples are founded on theauthors’ own experiences with phenomena they are trying to understand and critically explore.
This book is of interest to professional creative practitioners, art and craft educators, art teacher educators or researchers in the field of creative practices. It has power to inspire rethinking of present educational practices, to ignite critical reflections about materials and more-than humans, and, hopefully, motivate transformations toward more ecologically sustainable ways of life.
Chapters “Crafting in Dialogue with the Material Environment” and “Soil Laboratory: Crafting Experiments in an Exhibition Setting” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.se via link.springer.com.
Craft sciences
Edited by Tina Westerlund, Camilla Groth & Gunnar Almevik
Abstract for the book:
The field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research conducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This anthology aims to expose the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and results that reside in this field, and to explore what unites the research in such diverse contexts as, for example, the arts, conservation, or vocational craft education. The common thread between each of the chapters in the present book is the augmented attention given to methods—the craft research methods—and to the relationship between the field of inquiry and the field of practice. A common feature is that practice plays an instrumental role in the research found within the chapters, and that the researchers in this publication are also practitioners. The authors are researchers but they are also potters, waiters, carpenters, gardeners, textile artists, boat builders, smiths, building conservators, painting restorers, furniture designers, illustrators, and media designers. The researchers contribute from different research fields, like craft education, meal sciences, and conservation crafts, and from particular craft subjects, like boat-building and weaving. The main contribution of this book is that it collects together a number of related case studies and presents a reflection on concepts, perspectives, and methods in the general fields of craft research from the point of view of craft practitioners. It adds to the existing academic discussion of crafts through its wider acknowledgement of craftsmanship and extends its borders and its discourse outside the arts and crafts context. This book provides a platform from which to develop context-appropriate research strategies and to associate with the Craft Sciences beyond the borders of faculties and disciplines.
PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Doctoral Thesis
Groth, C. (2017) Making sense through hands: Design and craft practice analysed as embodied cognition. Doctoral dissertation, Aalto ARTS Books, Helsinki. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-7130-5
Edited peer reviewed books
Nimkulrat, N. & Groth, C. (2024) Eds. Craft and Design Practice seen from an Embodied Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328018
Schilhab, T. & Groth, C. (2024) Eds. Embodied Learning and Teaching using the 4E Cognition Approach: Exploring Perspectives in Teaching Practices, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604
Fredriksen, C. B. & Groth, C. (Eds.) (2022). Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education through the Arts: Crafting-with the environment. Singapore, Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-4855-8
Westerlund, T., Groth, C. & Almevik, G. (Eds.) (2022), Craft sciences, Gothenburg Studies in Conservation. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. https://www.kriterium.se/site/books/e/10.21524/kriterium.40/
Edited special issues and journal editorials
Groth, C., Townsend, K., Westerlund, T. & Almevik, G. Eds. (2022). Craft is Ubiquitous. Editorial. Craft Research, Special issue on Craft sciences, 13 (2). 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1386/crre_00076_2
Nimkulrat, N. & Groth, C. (2022). Editorial: Embodiment and experiential knowledge. pp. 43-45. In eds: Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., and Lloyd, P. (eds.) (2022) DRS2022: Bilbao, 25th June – 1st July, Bilbao, Spain, Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.cv001
Berg, A., Groth, C., Medola, F., & Sellen, K. (2021). Track 05: Co-creation of Interdisciplinary Design Educations. In E. Bohemia, L. M. Nielsen, L. Pan, N. A. G. Z. Börekçi, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the DRS Learn X Design 2021: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers (Vol. 2, pp. 476–478). Design Research Society. doi:10.21606/drs_lxd2021.00.312
Groth, C. Westerlund, T. & Almevik, G. 2021. Conference proceedings of the Biennial International Conference for the Craft sciences BICCS; Craft in Action, May 4-6, 2021, Mariestad, Sweden. Formakademisk Journal, 14 (2). Editorial, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.4361
Groth, C., Riis, K. & Gulliksen, M. (2020). Editorial: Special issue on Embodied making and learning, Formakademisk Journal, 13 (3). Art 1, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.3934
Nimkulrat, N. Groth, C. & Valle-Noronha J. & Tomico, O. (2020). Editorial: Knowing together – experiential knowledge and collaboration. Co-Design: Special issue: Experiential knowledge and collaboration, 16 (4). 267-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2020.1823995
Nimkulrat, N., Kuusk, K., Valle, J., Groth, C., & Tomico, O. (2019) Editorial introduction of the Proceedings of the International Conference 2019 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Tallinn, Estonia, 23-24 September. p. 237-250. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://eksig.org/PDF/EKSIG2019Proceedings.pdf
Nimkulrat, N., & Groth, C. (2018). Editorial: Experiential Knowledge in Collaborative Interdisciplinary Design Research. In C. Storni, K. Leahy, M. McMahon, P. Lloyd, & E. Bohemia (eds.), Proceedings of 2018 Design Research Society Conference (DRS2018) Vol. 4 (pp. 1548–1550). 25–28 June, Limerick, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.21606/ drs.2018.012
Groth, C. Mäkelä, M. Laakso, H. & Helke, S. (2018). Introduction. Special issue: Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations. Synnyt/Origins Journal of Finnish Studies in Art Education, vol 3. https://journal.fi/rae/article/view/118855
Gulliksen, M., Groth, C., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Mäkelä, M (2016) Introduction: Embodied making and learning. In: P. Lloyd & E. Bohemia, eds., Proceedings of Design Research Society Conference 2016, Brighton, Volume 7, pp 2889-2893, https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2016.605
Journal articles
Høibo, I.H., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Groth, C. (2024). Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces. International Journal of Technology and Design Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-024-09919-0
Groth, C., Høgseth, H. B., Melin, K.-M., & Leijonhufvud, F. (2024). T-shaped craft researchers’ contribution in transdisciplinary research projects. Journal of Material Culture, 29(2), 177-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835241248341
Kimmel, M & Groth, C. (2023). An “in vivo” analysis of crafts practices and creativity—Why affordances provide a productive lens. Frontiers in Psychology. 14:1127684. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1127684
Kimmel, M & Groth, C. (2023). What affords being creative? Opportunities for novelty in light of perception, embodied activity, and imaginative skill. Adaptive Behaviour, 0(0). doi:10.1177/10597123231179488
Groth, C., Jousmäki, V., Saarinen, V-M. & Hari, R. (2022), ‘Craft sciences meet neuroscience’, Craft Research, 13:2, pp. 261–83, https://doi.org/10.1386/crre_00079_1
Rankanen, M., Leinikka, M., Groth, C., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Mäkelä, M., Huotilainen, M., (2022). Physiological Measurements and Emotional Experiences of Drawing and Clay Forming. The arts in psychotherapy, 79, July 2021, 101899 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2022.101899
Riis, K. & Groth, C. (2020) Navigating methodological perspectives in Doctoral research through creative practice: Two examples of research in crafts. Formakademisk Journal, 13 (3). Art. 9, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.3704
Groth, C., Pevere, M., Niinimäki, K. & Kääriäinen, P. (2020). Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in research across the sciences and creative practice. Co-Design, 16 (4). 328-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2020.1821713
Lahtinen, R., Groth, C. & Palmer, R. (2018). Sound Descriptions of Haptic Experiences of Art Work by Deafblind Cochlear Implant Users. Multimodal Technologies & Interaction. 2, Article: 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2020024
Lahtinen, R., Groth, C. & Palmer, R. (2018). Haptic Art Experiences, Described as Vocals, Sounds and Written Words by Deafblind. Special issue: Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations. Synnyt/Origins Journal of Finnish Studies in Art Education, vol 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.118864
Niinimäki, K., Kääriäinen, P. & Groth, C. (2018). NEW SILK: Studying experimental touchpoints between material science, synthetic biology, design and art. Temes de Disseny Journal, 34. https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD34.2018.34-43
Huotilainen, M., Rankanen, M., Groth, C., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. & Mäkelä, M. (2018) Why our brains love arts and crafts: Implications of creative practices on psychophysical well-being. FORMakademisk Journal, 11 (2). Article 1, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.1908
Groth, C., Mäkelä, M. (2016) The knowing body in material exploration. Studies in Material Thinking, 14, article 02. https://materialthinking.aut.ac.nz/papers/220.html
Groth, C. (2016) Design- and craft thinking analysed as embodied cognition. FORMakademisk, 9 (1) Article 4, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.1481
Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Huotilainen, M., Mäkelä, M., Groth, C. & Hakkarainen, K. (2016) How can neuroscience help to understand design and craft activity? The promise of cognitive neuroscience in design studies. FORMakademisk, 9 (1) Article 3, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.1478
Groth, C., Mäkelä, M. & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. (2015) Tactile augmentation: A multimethod for capturing experiential knowledge. Craft Research Journal, 6, (1), 57-81. https://doi.org/10.1386/crre.6.1.57_1
Groth, C. (2015) Emotions in risk-assessment and decision-making processes during craft practice. Journal of Research Practice, 11, (2) article M5. http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/502/424
Groth, C., Mäkelä, M. & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P. (2013) Making Sense – what can we learn from experts of tactile knowledge? FORMakademisk Journal, 6, (2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.656
Book Chapters:
Schilhab, T. & Groth, C. (2024) Introduction to the anthology. In: (Eds). Schilhab, T. & Groth, C. Embodied Learning and Teaching using the 4E Cognition Approach: Exploring Perspectives in Teaching Practices, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604-2
Groth, C. & Schilhab, T. (2024) Conclusions. In: (Eds). Schilhab, T. & Groth, C. Embodied Learning and Teaching using the 4E Cognition Approach: Exploring Perspectives in Teaching Practices, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604-25
Groth, C. (2024). Apprenticeship as a model for teaching and learning in formal education. In: (Eds.) Schilhab, T. & Groth, C. Embodied Learning and Teaching using the 4E Cognition Approach: Exploring Perspectives in Teaching Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604-15
Groth, C. & Gulliksen, M. (2024). Thinking through hands in education. In: (Eds.) Schilhab, T. & Groth, C. Embodied Learning and Teaching using the 4E Cognition Approach: Exploring Perspectives in Teaching Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341604-13
Groth C. & Kimmel, M. (2024) Dynamic affordances in human-material dialogues. In: (Eds) Nimkulrat, N. & Groth, C. Craft and Design Practice seen from an Embodied Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328018-1
Groth C. & Nimkulrat, N. (2024) Introduction: Making as reflecting through interaction with the material environment. In: (Eds) Nimkulrat, N. & Groth, C. Eds. Craft and Design Practice seen from an Embodied Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328018-1
Gulliksen, M. & Groth C. (2024). Scaffolding visualization and mental rotation in designing and crafting. In: (Eds) Nimkulrat, N. & Groth, C. Eds. Craft and Design Practice seen from an Embodied Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328018-18
Groth, C. & Fredriksen, B. C. (2022). Towards a Changed View on Crafts and Materiality: An Introduction. In: (Eds.) Fredriksen, B. C. & Groth, C. (2022). Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education through the Arts: Crafting-with the environment. Singapore, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4855-8_1
Almevik, G, Groth, C & Westerlund (2022) Explotations in craft sciences. In: Westerlund, T., Groth, C. & Almevik, G. (Eds.) (2022), Craft sciences, Gothenburg Studies in Conservation. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2-18. https://doi.org/10.21524/kriterium.40.a
Nordström, B. & Groth, C. (2022). The role of weaving in the encounter with life and death. In: Westerlund, T., Groth, C. & Almevik, G. (Eds.) (2022), Craft sciences, Gothenburg Studies in Conservation. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 292-314. https://doi.org/10.21524/kriterium.40.n
Groth, C. (2022) Video as a tool for knowing and telling in craft research. In: Westerlund, T., Groth, C. & Almevik, G. (Eds.) (2022), Craft sciences, Gothenburg Studies in Conservation. Gothenburg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 48-66. https://doi.org/10.21524/kriterium.40.c
Aktaş, B. & Groth, C. (2021). Studying material interactions to facilitate behavioral change. In (Eds.): Rognoli, V., Pedgley, O & Karana, E. Materials experience vol.2. Expanding Territories of Materials and Design. Butterworth-Heinemann.
Groth, C. (2020). Making as a way of interacting with the environment. In, (Eds.): Grov Berger, R. & Kjellevold, T. Earth, Wind, Fire, Water. Nordic Contemporary Crafts – A Critical Craft Anthology.Pp 52-64. Arnoldsche Art Publishers (2020). ISBN 978-3-89790-603-7. https://norwegiancrafts.no/publications/earth-wind-fire-water
Invited Keynotes:
Hands in clay: Craft sciences meet neuroscience. Keynote at Biennial International Conference of the craft sciences, 4-6 May, 2021, Mariestad, Sweden. Together with Riitta Hari, Veikko Jousmäki and Veli-Matti Saarinen. On-line Conference.
Knowing through hands in the field of arts and crafts. Keynote at Bodily Learning, 22-23 April, 2021, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. On-line Conference.
Conference proceedings
Aktaş, B. & Groth, C. (2021). Using Creative Practice in Interdisciplinary Education. In E. Bohemia, L. M. Nielsen, L. Pan, N. A. G. Z. Börekçi, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the DRS Learn X Design 2021: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers (Vol. 2, pp. 553-567). Design Research Society. doi:10.21606/drs_lxd2021.07.233
Aktaş, B. M., & Groth, C. (2020). Studying material interactions to facilitate a sense of being with the world. In (eds.): Boess, S., Cheung, M. & Cain, R. (2020) Proceedings of the DRS2020, Brisbane, August 11-14, 2020, vol. 4. p. 1659-1676. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.229
Groth, C., Pevere, M., Niinimäki, K. & Kääriäinen, P. (2019) When art meets science: Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in interdisciplinary research on new materials. Proceedings of the International Conference 2019 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Tallinn, Estonia, 23-24 September. p. 237-250. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://eksig.org/PDF/EKSIG2019Proceedings.pdf
Ilén, E., Groth, C., Ahola, M. and Niinimäki, K. (2019) Empathy in a technology driven design process: Designing for user without a voice of their own. Proceedings of the NORDES conference “Who Cares?”, Helsinki, Finland, 2-4/6 2019. https://archive.nordes.org/index.php/n13/article/view/492
Groth, C., and Berg, A. (2018) Co-creation in Professional Craft Practice, in Storni, C., Leahy, K., McMahon, M., Lloyd, P. and Bohemia, E. (eds.), Design as a catalyst for change – DRS International Conference 2018, 25-28 June, Limerick, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2018.256
Mäkelä, M & Groth, C (2017) In dialogue with the material environment: Creativity, materiality and skill. SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, April 28-29, 2017, Helsinki Finland.
Groth, C. (2016) The role of sensory experiences and emotions in craft practice. In: P. Lloyd & E. Bohemia, eds., Proceedings of Design Research Society Conference 2016, Brighton, Volume 7, pp 2895-2910, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.337
Leinikka, M., Huotilainen, M., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., Groth, C., Rankanen, M., Mäkelä, M. (2016) Physiological measurements of drawing and forming activities. In: P. Lloyd & E. Bohemia, eds., Proceedings of Design Research Society Conference 2016, Brighton, Volume 7, pp 2941-2957, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.335
Groth, C. & Mäkelä, M. (2014) The knowing body in material exploration. Proceedings of The Art of Research V: Experience, Materiality, Articulation. International Conference 26-27 November 2014, Helsinki, Finland
Groth, C., Mäkelä, M., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., and Kosonen, K. (2014) Tactile augmentation: Reaching for tacit knowledge, in Lim, Y., Niedderer, K., Redstrom, J., Stolterman, E. and Valtonen, A. (eds.), Design’s Big Debates – DRS International Conference 2014, 16-19 June, Umea, Sweden. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2014/researchpapers/87
Groth, C., Mäkelä, M., Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., and Kosonen, K. (2014) Tactile augmentation: Reaching for tacit knowledge, in Lim, Y., Niedderer, K., Redstrom, J., Stolterman, E. and Valtonen, A. (eds.), Design’s Big Debates – DRS International Conference 2014, 16-19 June, Umea, Sweden. https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2014/researchpapers/87
Other publications
Groth, C., Ikävalko, L. & Jokinen, E. (2022) Pot Viapori; Paikka saarella. Helsinki, Pot Viapori Ry. ISBN 978-952-94-6660-3
Di, S. & Groth, C. (2019) Shiwan Ceramics: Looking Backward to Move Forward. Ceramics Art+Perception magazine, #113. https://www.mansfieldceramics.com/clay-gulgong/shop/magazine/ceramics-art-perception-113/
Niinimäki, K., Groth, C. & Kääriäinen, P. (2019). New Silk: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials. Clot magazine, March 23. https://www.clotmag.com/oped/new-silk-exploring-design-science-collaboration-for-new-materials-kirsi-niinimaki-camilla-groth-pirjo-kaariainen
Groth, C. (2001) Fluid Solids. Ceramic Review, March/April, Appendix. Issue 188, pp. 12-13.