### more\/modern craftsmanship Works examining the fundamentals of craft that have influenced **the between** include: The sociologist Richard Sennett and his thorough description of craft in seemingly disparate areas like musicians, Japanese autoworkers, scientists, mothering, and the Linux community. He examines its role in cognition, social capital, and ethics, and, most interestingly, pays much attention to the dangers of its power and their mitigation. The cultural historian Christopher Frayling, who specifically calls for craft to generate a new Bauhaus. As former rector of the Royal College of Art, he sees a natural role for another round of unifying art, craft, and technology to stimulate industry, education, and professional practitioners. Like the original Bauhaus, in Frayling science remains in its cloister, perhaps to serve as inspiration. We differ on this, particularly because science has answers on the issue of function that he puts his finger on. The neuroscientist Kuniyoshi Sakai, a neuroscientist who comes to craft by breaking down what students need to know to become scientists. What happens, say, when a scientist gives a seminar? He finds that the explanations amount to the values and practices of a shokunin, the master craftsman in a lineage of others, who aspires to always improve themselves and their work through dedication and repetition, offers what they have to the community, and who respects—and through practice can hear the voice of —nature. The psychologist Carol Gilligan and her work on the ethics of care. Her research on the know/care binary upended a consensus that only a few decades ago considered boys (who know) more moral than girls (who care). While not directly referencing craft, her work parallels and complements Sennett's, especially on how the pleasure intrinsic to care and to craft made them suspect. - [R. Sennett, The Craftsman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craftsman_\(book\)) - [C. Frayling, On Craftsmanship: Towards a New Bauhaus](https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-craftsmanship-9781786820853/) - K. Sakai, The Job of a Scientist: How Does Originality Come About? - [C. Gilligan, In a Human Voice](https://www.wiley.com/en-us/in+a+Human+Voice-p-9781509556809)