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Crafts issue 284: The Change Makers


28 August 2020

Our September/October 2020 issue celebrates the transformative power of craft


28 August 2020


    • For our cover feature, we visited pioneering designer Fernando Laposse's studio in rural Mexico. Photo: Pepe Molina

    For its September/October 2020 issue, Crafts magazine has been refreshed and re-energised for a new era. To mark its transformation, it is celebrating those it calls ‘change makers’: the artists, designers, thinkers and organisations using craft skills and processes to make a positive impact, whether socially, ecologically or politically.

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    Discover the people cleaning up ceramics

    In this issue, we meet designer Fernando Laposse at his radical design experiment in rural Mexico, the makers who have reshaped their practices in lockdown, the innovators turning ceramics green and the people campaigning for museums to return objects acquired during colonisation. At a time of global upheaval, these stories show how the act of making can bring us together.


    Artist Alia Ali's extraordinary textile portraits

    Elsewhere, Chicago-based textile artist Aram Han Sifuentes explores making as a form of resistance, and our new columnist Gus Casely-Hayford discusses the threads that bind us. At a time of global upheaval, these stories show how the act of making can bring us together.

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    Upcoming talk: 8 October, 2020
    How can ceramics clean up their act?

    Digging deeper into a topic featured in this issue, Crafts is bringing together pioneering ceramicists and designers in a panel discussion to help envisage a cleaner future for clay.

    As part of London Craft Week, Crafts' assistant editor Isabella Smith will be hosting an online conversation between Lewis Jones of Granby Workshop, Purva Chawla of MaterialDriven, and Kevin Rouff of Studio ThusThat.

    From greener kiln firings through to glazes made from food waste and industrial debris – and even human urine – the panel will explore the latest innovations and the challenges that lie ahead.

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