The book will be published in spring 2011. It's nearly finished now! (July 2010).
New video about the book [see right] (Jan 2010).
New interview with David Gauntlett, from the book Mashup Cultures, which discusses the 'Making is Connecting' project (Nov 2009).

New extract, on how studies of happiness show the importance of social connections, and working on projects.
At Reboot Britain in London, 6 July 2009, we invited people to build their ideas for a better Britain, in Lego. See the photo gallery or video of their diverse constructions.
And some new links added below.
Other good sites and pages related to this topic (in some way) include:

Creative Communities, a brilliant inspiring booklet produced by the Sustainable Everyday Project
Social Spaces, a new project for building community networks

The Craftsman, summary/extract of the book by Richard Sennett, as published in The Guardian
Ravelry, interesting social network for the knitting community
Make magazine and Craft magazine
Charles Leadbeater, author of We-Think
We Media, free online book by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis
Urban Artist Collective pool on Flickr
Collaboratively produced by its users, Wikipedia is perhaps the single best example of Web 2.0 at work. Some Wikipedia articles which relate to 'Making is Connecting' include:
Ivan Illich, radical philosopher who said that people need tools to make the world their own
Arts and crafts and also the Arts and Crafts Movement
Web 2.0, making and sharing online
Creativity, in its many forms
Happiness, which comes from engagement with the world
And this is an article I wrote about Wikipedia itself:
Wikipedia explained
New! My new 9-minute video (Jan 2010) links everyday creativity and Web 2.0 with William Morris, Ivan Illich, craft and guerrilla gardening:
Some initial 'Making is connecting' ideas were presented in Denmark in March 2009. This is a 9-minute edited video of that talk:
These themes are also considered in 'Participation Culture, Creativity, and Social Change,' from 2008:
We have, in fact, got a number of other relevant videos. These include:
Lego landscape of ideas at Reboot Britain, July 2009
Building models of learning in Lego
Representing Identities (Part 1), about the Lego identities project method
Representing Identities (Part 2), about the Lego identities project findings
RSA workshop using creative methods, thinking about a network by making in metaphors
Blogging is an obvious online example of people making something and connecting with people within the same process. Some relevant blogs include:
NESTA Connect, always interesting ideas from the Connect team
Thriving Too, community blog on social innovation, creativity, education, and community and network development
Social Spaces, a project on community networks
GeekDad, self-explanatory sort-of parenting blog for geeks, from Wired
Mixtape, crafty zine and blog
My own blog posts are on the Westminster Media Comment blog. (It's good to be part of a community). You can see a full list of them. Relevant posts include:
Knitting and politics
YouTube as documentary
Building the future of Parliament... in Lego

I'm finishing writing the book now (summer 2010) then will put new, proper extracts on this site. Here are two older ones. They are fine but, for example, the introduction will change a lot - I'm scrapping quite a bit of this I think!:
Extract from introduction, a draft part of the introductory explanations and basic principles.
(This third revision posted 23 June 2009).
Extract from chapter 3: 'The Power of Connecting', on how studies of happiness show the importance of social connections, and working on projects.
(First posted 23 June 2009).
Some links by and about the author include:
David Gauntlett, main page about interests, projects, books, and other stuff
Theory.org.uk, the media and identities website

ArtLab site on new creative methods
Particular projects include:
Lego Serious Play projects, research on building in metaphors

Young people's mediaworlds, current research project
A Drawing A Day, now with over 700 drawings
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