ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores how making transforms material and social relations, how it produces, makes, repairs and reimagines geographies. It contains as a micropolitical practice that operates through the embodied and material, with micropolitical practices of making operating as ongoing transformational politics. The book describes human and non-human encounters that are mediated, affective, emotive, and sensuous, that are about animation, joy and fear, and both the opening up and closing down of affective capacity. It examines what kinds of transformations occur through making, through what practices, to whom and with what temporalities and spatialities. The book details the role of making in extending and evolving the material lives of objects through practices of restoration and repair. Making practices cultivate care for and within communities that are human and non-human.
