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MAKING FUTURES
CRAFTING A SUSTAINABLE MODERNITY - TOWARDS A MAKER
AESTHETICS OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Making Futures will be held on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd September 2017 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon, UK.
FINAL CALL REMINDER: CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ALL ABSTRACTS THE 9TH JUNE 2017.
The call is open to 4 Research Workshops and 6 Indicative Themes that more generally underpin the Making Futures series:
Research Workshops:
Crafting in Industry.
The Well Maker Space.
Making Leaders (Innovation & Change)
Curating Maker Cultures.
Indicative Thematic Sessions:
Craft in Modernity - Critical Perspectives on Producers and Consumers.
Lifecycles of Material Worlds - Sustainability in Practice.
Procedures of Making - Materials & Processes in Transformation.
Translations Across (Post-Colonial) Local-Global Divides.
Craft in an Expanded Field.
Making Thinking – Crafting Education.
Making Futures seeks a diverse range of responses from artists, craftspeople, designer-makers, Fab Lab and maker-movement enthusiasts, campaigners and activists, curators, historians and theorists. We invite practice-led presentations and case studies, historical and theoretical papers, as well as innovative presentation formats that might include performance, objects and other media and materials.
CONFERENCE BURSARIES:
A bursary scheme is open to independents (artists, makers and designer-makers) see website for information on applying.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
In addition to Glenn Adamson, Angela McRobbie and Ares Kalandides, we are also pleased to announce:
Sarah Mann, Director of Architecture Design Fashion, at the British Council.
Drawing upon the work of the British Council in relation to this edition’s overall theme of Crafting a sustainable Modernity, Sarah will remind us that there are other Modernity’s being forged outside the blueprint of the ‘typical’ Western experience, in which craft and small scale artisanal production also have important roles to play. She will also explore the critical social position of women in these societies, and their particular association with many craft-based practices; and, therefore, to the roles they might play as leaders of innovation and change.
KANGHYO LEE – IN PERFORMANCE:
Making Futures will also feature this internationally known contemporary Korean ceramicist who will produce one of his large-scale slip-decorated vessels on site.
FOR FULL DETAILS PLEASE VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/ We would be grateful if colleagues could forward this announcement to interested persons through appropriate peer networks, notice boards and associates.
