As part of our work supporting the reignition of Make Works across its regions, we are really excited to announce that we’ve become a Distributed Design Partner. Distributed Design acts as an exchange and networking hub for the European Maker Movement. Distributed Design sits within Fab Lab Barcelona and IAAC, and their projects closely overlap the Fab City Network, working towards a system of Data-in Data-out urban model as opposed to the current city models of Product-In Trash-Out.
We join 18 other organisations all promoting local and sustainable making and manufacturing in their regions; from Fab City Store Paris, Danish Design Center, Open Dot Lab Milan, Ars Longa, and Other Today to name a few.
Our work will primarily be around supporting the integration of Make Works as a tool for the Distributed Design community to use in their work to map manufacturing in their local areas. We’re really lucky to be working with the inimitable Helen Voce to bring this project to life, and pick up on some of the work of brilliant creatives Fi Scott, Neil McGuire, Jamie Sterling, Roy Shearer and too many others to name.
We have huge plans for the next year including a complete update of the Make Works website, events to support its re-launch in Scotland, and we’ll also be mentoring 2 Distributed Design Awards Winners.
Watch this space…
Distributed Design is supported by Creative Europe.