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Under the concept of critical digital making, we have collected examples of social art practice, educational case study research, and analytical works using critical theories to recast how we may use digital making for creative and pedagogical ←13 | 14→practice. At the heart of the collection is negotiating what it means to critically reflect on the uses of digital technology, but it is an extended meditation on how this impacts our conceptions of our own identities, our collective work, and the forms our communities may take. The collective author’s voices are concerned with the complexities of pedagogy, but this concern is forged within a range of actors sculpting our learning. Images, web portals, maps, and people teach us, and the framework of critical digital making is intended to invigorate our engagement with these digital innovations as we co-construct agency and our participation with digital media.

Reflecting on the spectrum of collected international authors, it is apparent that technology and learning are intertwined and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Taking inspiration from art practices perceiving pedagogy as a complex interaction of sociocultural factors may support the value of creative thinking in educational settings to manifest new perspectives in unexpected ways. Critical digital making is one way to extend the project of critical pedagogy, not only as an evaluative measure of representation and identity politics, but as an ideological political project, entangled in material and community that is, and will continue to be, digital.