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Get making at home or in your community


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Hey! Clay! 2019. Image by Iona Wolff

Making is a powerful tool - it builds communities, boosts wellbeing and can empower people to refashion their lives. Working with materials can help people in difficult circumstances grow in confidence and rediscover a sense of agency.

Our participation work takes this as a starting point and creates a range of opportunities for people to get making - from community groups who come together to craft to more targeted interventions that aim to make a particular change.

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Explore our resources to help you get making at home or find out how you can bring people together through craft.

Get making with some help from the Crafts Council

Make:Shift:Do

Make:Shift:Do works with makerspaces to offer communities, families, children, and young people hands-on experiences of emerging craft technologies, new materials and digital making.

We’re interested in exploring how innovative craft practices can generate opportunities for communities, artists and organisations to co-create work. When projects are led by the passions, interests, and concerns of the communities involved, exciting applications for new craft technologies emerge.

In 2018/19 we worked with three makerspace partners to deliver co-creation projects and then share their process.

Case studies of projects at The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Little Sandbox, Liverpool, and Fablab Barnstaple are available to read via these downloads:

Case Study: Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library

Harris Museum co-created activities with Caritas Care’s Futures Xpress (FX) project, a day service offering personalised, individual care and support for individuals with a profound learning or physical disability.

Case Study: Little Sandbox

Community makerspace Little Sandbox co-created an activity group with adult members of the community.

Case Study: Barnstaple Fablab

Library-based FabLab Barnstaple began working more collaboratively with young people with the aim of embedding a youth-led approach.


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