A short presentation about Make Works and its roots - a not for profit organisation that facilitates and celebrates the making and manufacture of work in Scotland. Currently creating a digital directory of makers, manufacturers, material suppliers and facilities in Scotland as a resource for the creative industries. Contact: @thisismakeworks, thisismakeworks@gmail.com

1. WE CAN
Make
Works
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4. ARTISTS MAKERS
DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS
ARCHITECTS SUPPLIERS
CRAFT PROCESSES
VISUAL ARTS FACILITIES
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5. ARTISTS MAKERS
DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS
ARCHITECTS SUPPLIERS
CRAFT PROCESSES
VISUAL ARTS FACILITIES
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6. Make
Events
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7. “We are always
looking to hire people
who can sew, but they
are hard to find.”
Yvonne and Marion, Directors at Bespoke Atelier
“I’m a seamstress
with a workshop in
the city centre.” Street
Freelance Seamstress working, Ingram
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8. “When I first started
making light fittings,
it took months before
I found a reliable
metalworker.”at Foldability
Kyla McCallum, Design Director
“We are working at
half capacity at the
moment -there just
isn’t enough Kilbride work.”
Retail Display Systems, East
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11. “intimate connection between
head and hand...where a dialouge
is conducted between concrete
practices and thinking”
Richard Sennett in The Craftsman
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12. “the chance to work with real makers, which is Britain is
like working with an extinct species”Jonathan Anderson, SunSpel via Selectism
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15. “many young designers have lost
the ability to understand, or
perhaps are not taught, why
things are the way things are. In
a way it’s a loss of language ”
Sam Hecht, Industrial Facility in RSA debate 09/10
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19. “Where do the products that fill
our lives come from? ‘China’ is,
of course, the standard answer to
this question”
David Crowley, in Foreword to TheToaster Project, RCA 2012
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20. ARTISTS MAKERS
DESIGNERS MANUFACTURERS
ARCHITECTS SUPPLIERS
CRAFT PROCESSES
VISUAL ARTS FACILITIES
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21. WE CAN Fi Scott // Make Works
Make www.makeworks.co.uk
Works @thisismakeworks
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