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Pictured: the winner clock carving by Marko Zivkovic

Marko says his woodworking started about five years ago, and dovetailed neatly into his previous scholarly interests in craft, technology and science as well as embodied foundations of knowledge. The way workshop skills transfer to thinking skills has now become central to his larger project on the Modalities of Flexible Inquiry: Elastic Rigour Across Arts and Sciences.

 “I have developed these ideas through a series of papers starting from “Butchers, Carvers, and Other Artisans as Embodiments of Ethnographer’s Craft” at the 2023 AAA/CASCA in Toronto, through "The Whispering hand-plane: unifying senses in a woodworking workshop” at the the Uncommon Senses V Conference in Montreal, May 8, 2025. I am also using my woodworking experience in teaching my recently developed class: Body, Craft and Technology that I taught in 2022 and that I am teaching again this semester.”

This was a competition organized by the  in August, and Marko tied for first place. They ended up giving two instead of one prize (a $500 gift certificate for their store). He was making a clock for a friend anyway, so decided to enter. The design was based on the logo of the    by the Belgrade artist and designer, Ivana Kalina. 

He is also using his woodworking experience as an experiential basis for his research into the "Modalities of Flexible Inquiry" as well as for teaching the Body, Craft and Technology class.