Thread 01
What survives in a gesture when its original setting has changed?
Open Inquiry
How do hands carry knowledge across time?
A question about learning, memory, material and historical continuity.
This inquiry considers demonstrations, corrections, tools, touch, diagrams, stories and repeated attempts as possible paths by which knowledge may travel. It asks about multiple forms of transmission without romanticising continuity or assuming it is unbroken.
Thread 02
How do teaching and practice make knowledge visible, hidden or selective?
Thread 03
What does a material remember, and what must be documented in words or images?
Research boundary
What this page will not assume.
Continuity is a research question, not a decorative claim. Accounts of communities, transmission and loss need traceable evidence.