Quality and Craftsmanship

Roles: craftsperson, workpiece, standard, tolerance, finish, judgment, risk, certainty

The domain of what makes work good, durable, and fit for purpose. As a target domain, quality and craftsmanship receives metaphors from every making tradition — carpentry, cooking, metalwork, software. Structurally productive because it encodes the tension between measurable standards (tolerances, specs, tests) and the irreducible role of skilled judgment that no specification can fully capture. The domain forces a reckoning with the question of whether quality is a property of the object or a relationship between object, maker, and context.

As Source Frame (1)

• Character Is a Wax Seal → psychology

Applied To This Frame (7)

• carpentry → Green Wood
• carpentry → Nail It
• carpentry → Plane It Smooth
• carpentry → Polished
• carpentry → Rough Around the Edges
• carpentry → Shokunin
• carpentry → Workmanship of Certainty