Fantasies of Making, investigates how we come to understand industrially produced materials.  It investigates the manufacturing process of Float Glass, a material with no visible trace of its making process; a material which is unblemished, flawless and highly transparent.   The paper proposes that the apparent ‘emptiness’ of the material creates a gap that prompts speculation and fantasy  - a situation where information not related to Float’s making process (such as the use of glass in magic tricks) contribute to our understanding.

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The paper was presented at Hospitality: Transmission, Sheffield Hallam University, July 2010

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http://extra.shu.ac.uk/transmission/transconf.html

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