Sharing Insights: Developing Circular Practices in Makespaces

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Clare Brass / Ashley Hall / Grit Hartung / Sharon Prendeville / Erica Purvis

Sharing Insights: Developing Circular Practices in

Makespaces se. …”

Context

What we’ve done

What we’ve learnt

What’s next

James Tooze, Hannah Steward, Sharon Baurley

Context

Makespaces

Various forms of Makespaces

/ Peter Troxler, “Open Design Now’, 2011/ Nesta: Open dataset of UK Makespaces, 2015

Focused area of Makespaces & selected

/ Peter Troxler, “Open Design Now’, 2011/ Nesta: Open dataset of UK Makespaces, 2015

Risk of adopting the old linear model in a distributed form – ‘crapjects’

What we’ve done

/ thegreatrecovery.org

What we’ve done

. . . . . . . . . #Circular#Stories

What we’ve done

#History #Context #Connections #Batch-manufacture

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What we’ve done

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/ Nesta Open Dataset User Guide – April 2015

What we’ve done

What we’ve done

What we’ve learnt 1Lack of considerations in sustainability

The concept of sustainability varies and Makespaces are quite far behind a basic levels

What we’ve learnt 2

Choices, such as the selection of materials and equipment, are guided by bureaucracy and the need to streamline

What we’ve learnt 3

Lack of eco-champions or people to drive and encourage ‘circular practise’

What we’ve learnt 4

Invisibility of issues around resource use and circularity

What we’ve learnt 5

People need easy and quick examples - at all stages of their process

What we’ve learnt 6

#signage #best-machine-practise

People need easy and accessible examples - at all stages of their process

What we’ve learnt 6

The idea and language of ‘Crapject’ resonates with people running the Makespaces

What we’ve learnt 7

Underlying ethos of openness and collaboration, more so informallyon exisiting platforms

What we’ve learnt 8

COMPLEX

SIMPLE

What’s next

“Eventually, everything connects – people, ideas, objects.

The quality of the connections is the key to quality per

…”se. …”Eames

Thanks you.

#circularmakespaces@sustainRCA@FMs_RdM

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