#336: Object Trajectories: What Happens to the Things Students Make

What happens to student-made artifacts once making ends? We have rich accounts of fabrication, but rarely follow objects out the door. We introduce object trajectories as a lens for tracing the social and epistemic lives of artifacts after creation. Drawing on constructionism, material culture, and critical theories of visibility, we develop three dimensions: perceptual seeding, recognition, and visibility, and argue that following objects reveals forms of learning that stopping at the moment of making cannot reach.