<b>ReCreative: Learn from the past influence the future</b>

<p dir="ltr"><b>ReCreative: Learn from the past influence the future</b> discusses the use of re-creative practices across various disciplines and how it is used to generate new knowledge. In the area of fine art it is closely aligned to fields such as experimental anthropology where it offers the potential of a haptic and embodied engagement with historic artifacts through re-making and re-imagining. </p><p dir="ltr">Objects in museum collections sacrifice a haptic engagement for the sake of preservation. Through re-creative practice we can understand how artifacts were made but more importantly what they felt like to make, to hold, to use. The is not an attempt to create facsimiles but to give an insight into the use experience of artifacts.</p>