There are still spots available in my Old World Games class at North House Folk School if you are in the mood to spend a few days making ancient board games out of wood, leather,a
⭐⭐⭐
"... as though evolution were suggesting, "if there's not enough of what you want, then want something else." This specialization to avoid scarcity has led to a dazzling array of biodiversity, each species avoiding competition by being different." - Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry (2024)
Folkification (noun) A process in which a product, narrative, recipe, machine, or other object is made more accessible and less centralized.
Claire Saffitz folkifies candy, snack, and junk food recipes on her 2017-2020 show Gourmet Makes. Through sheer perseverance and creative genius, Claire decodes the arcane manufacture of industrially-produced foods and creates her own versions using accessible ingredients. The final moments of every video include a full recipe with ingredient measurements and individual steps. This is a folkification of centralized, opaque food manufacturing processes.
John Deere tractor software can be extremely restrictive. Farmers can find themselves locked out of essential systems, unable to repair their own machines. People have been jailbreaking these systems for many years, refolkifying the technology of a tractor. Everyone has a Right to Repair their own machinery.
Fan fiction is a folkification of narrative intellectual property of massive media companies. Stories belong to everyone: this is a truth asserted by fan fiction authors. Walt Disney took folktales and commercialized them. Now, we can do the same, by taking corporate-copyrighted narratives and folkifying them. (My favorite example of this is the Star Wars retelling inside the post-draconic-apocalypse world of Reign of Fire.)
⭐⭐⭐
"Writing is not what follows research, learning, or studying, it is the medium of all this work." - Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
🌱 find more of me at my website 🌱
🕊️ leave me a note 🕊️