Making Futures

Kelly, J. (Invited speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

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Making Futures 2024 explored craft encounters with current material innovations where artists, artisans, designers and others work across disciplines and communities toward a more equitable, sustainable and resilient world. The conference looked at how these encounters begin to alter both the formal and conceptual expectations of craft, opening traditional techniques to the behavioural, biological and environmental dimensions of physical matter beyond object-making, to take a more holistic view of how materiality shapes and influences human experience.

Period	17 Oct 2024 → 19 Oct 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Plymouth, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

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making
craft
craft practices
craft processes
material innovations
sustainability

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First convened in 2009, the conference is focused on the transformative potential of material and fabrication practices, whose tacit and traditional ways of making contribute to new, progressive futures where people and the planet live together more harmoniously. Making Futures® seeks to situate material cultures and material knowledge at the centre of the many critical issues facing global consumer society, including how we might move beyond mass consumption towards an inclusive, regenerative economy capable of supporting social well-being and enabling more resilient communities. As a platform for challenging the material status quo and inviting speculation on how traditional approaches to material production might inform emerging technologies and economies, Making Futures advocates for the importance of our shared human heritage, social making, and the significance of place in the value of creative form.

Making Futures

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Shifting horizons: Exploring the intersection of landscape and human experience in the evolving realm of sustainable glassmaking.