Green Maker Initiative Online Event | Thursday 26 May 2022 | 10:30am - 11:30am
GMI Online Event: Sustainable Craft in Practice, a Discussion | Zoom, Thursday 26 May 2022, 10:30am - 11:30am
Register HERE.
We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a 1-hour online talk, via Zoom, on Thursday 26 May. This online session will be a round table discussion between a panel of 3 makers - that are already striving to make their own craft practice more sustainable - facilitated by the lovely, Melody Vaughan.
When you register for the event you will be given the chance to pose your own question to the panel, which will hopefully be addressed during the session. And, if time allows, we will open it up to a live Q&A at the end.
Too busy to interact? Swamped at work? Tied up with childcare? Not a problem! There is no pressure to give us your undivided attention, or to have your video on, so pop this on in the background for a listen while you’re in your studio/car/kitchen/garden.
If you can’t make the session, it’s worth knowing that it will be recorded and made available on our GMI resources page the week after.
The session will include a brief introduction about the Green Maker Initiative by Hannah Mills-Brown (MAKE Southwest). The round table discussion will be facilitated by Melody Vaughan, who will be keeping the conversation on track and reading out your questions (provided at registration) to the panel. The discussion panel is comprised of 3 brilliant makers/collectives (see below) who are passionate about craft and the industry’s environmental impact.
Melody Vaughan
Melody Vaughan is a curator and writer who facilitates encounters between people, objects and craft makers. Through acts of gathering people together she creates spaces for sharing experiences of making and questioning contemporary craft practices, with a focus on sustainable/ethical making practices.
melodyvaughan.com
@melody_vaughan
image credit: Yeshen Venema
Woodlab
Woodlab is the unruly offspring and much beloved project of The Woodland Presents CIC.
Broadly speaking the organisation is trying to do right by British woods and support the people that work with trees and timber. They have a huge belief in the power of woodhubs to help restore woodland culture, and Woodlab is our little woodhub offering to the world.
image credit: Woodlab
Georgia Bosson
Georgia Bosson is the founder and creative director of Georgia Bosson Studio and Makers House.
Her practice spans projects across commercial and domestic interiors, with a dedicated studio product range made solely in the UK complimented by commissioned work for architects and private clients.
With a passion for UK manufacture that is both environmentally and socially viable, we work with social enterprises to produce the studio product range whilst working exclusively with European linen and organic cotton.
georgiabosson.co.uk
@georgiabosson
image credit: Georgia Bosson
Kate Lyons-Miller
Kate returned to ceramics, her first love, after a career as a scenic artist, working in theatres all around Britain. Three dimensional design could be said to be in her DNA. Having gained a BA Hons. in Ceramics at Plymouth College of Art she went on to achieve an MA in Ceramic Design from BSAD, Bath, graduating in 2020.
You might find her out on the moor near her home close to Hound Tor, head down, fossicking for minerals, clays and muds; or high up on the tors with the clouds, drawing, writing and thinking about this amazing, pared back landscape.
katelyonsmiller.com
@kate_lyonsmiller_design
image credit: Kate Lyons-Miller
Weren’t able to make it?
This is a recording of the Green Maker Initiative online session; a round table discussion between a panel of 3 makers who are already striving to make their own craft practice more sustainable.
Hosted by MAKE Southwest.
Facilitated by Melody Vaughan.
Panellists: Georgia Bosson, Kester Hoefkens (Woodlab), Kate Lyons-Miller.
