What Makes Us Human: Making as searching
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Sakamoto talks with physics professor Hideo Mabuchi about craft and the creative cycle.
The Grind What Makes Us Human: Making as searching Hideo Mabuchi is a professor of applied physics and a ceramicist. (Courtesy of David Kelly Crow) By Emi Sakamoto May 12, 2026, 10:29 p.m. “What Makes Us Human?” is a biweekly column in which Emi Sakamoto ’28 investigates the interdisciplinary criteria whereby we might better respond to this metaphysically contested question. Amid our rapidly evolving technological landscape, it is incumbent upon us to do so. When associate communications professor Angèle Christin referred me to Hideo Mabuchi, professor of applied physics, I expected our conver
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