Making Futures: The Crafts as Change-Maker in Sustainably Aware Cultures is a craft-based conference organised by Plymouth Art College, which will be held on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September 2011 at Dartington Hall, Devon, UK.
The conference explores how the contemporary crafts are practiced in relation to developing global environmental and sustainability agendas, and the idea that these emerging agendas interrupt and restage the possibilities of craft in fundamental ways that are important to makers, their audiences, and to society more generally; that they present opportunities to redefine and reconstitute the crafts as less marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society, through new formulations and/or re-articulations of practices, identities, positions and markets.
The conference will include a special research workshop entitled Regeneration in Glass: A Sustainable and Financially Viable Future, discussing the difficulties faced by the Studio Glass Movement, and how current research has the potential to support the development of new micro-business start-ups in this area. The organisers invite papers and presentations from practitioners and scholars in this field, including those with an expert knowledge of the history of UK and international Studio Glass, who might want to contribute to this special research workshop. Note that a third and final call for papers associated with Making Futures has just been released, with a closing date of 1st May 2011. However, it is likely that an extension of the closing date by a few weeks will be announced to take account of the inclusion of this new session on glass and its possible futures.
For more information and to make your application to be part of the conference, visit:
W: http:makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk
E: conference@plymouthart.ac.uk
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