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A think-piece on the value of innovation in the “just do it” age of late capitalism. The author, James Bielo, parses jugaad as frugality, experimentation and creativity, and illustrates his point through a brief description of two historical figures: Brother John’s making of the Ave Maria Grotto in Alabama as well as the carvings of Elijah Pierce, an African-American self-taught artist from Mississippi.
David Morgan offers us a thought-piece on the idea of ‘context’, a concept integral to The Jugaad Project. He notes that artifacts do not carry their meanings within themselves, though they may bear the traces of their contexts, of the settings from which time, history, and events have withdrawn them. The task of scholarly study is to re-situate artifacts within the settings that we find underlie their interpretation.
