The Making and Knowing Project, founded in 2014 by Pamela H. Smith and involving hundreds of collaborators, is a research and pedagogical initiative in the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. The Project explores the intersections between historical craft making and scientific knowing. Drawing on techniques from both laboratory and archival research as well as studio practice and the digital humanities, the Making and Knowing Project aims to cross the science/humanities divide.
Field Notes are records of the hands-on reconstructions of making processes by Making and Knowing Project collaborators, namely student participants of the Project's Laboratory Seminars. More information about the Project's teaching and research methods is detailed in the Research and Teaching Companion. See also Introduction to Field Notes.
The Field Notes are organized by semester and then by student or researcher.