Editor's Introduction: People, Place, Meaning: Crafting Social Worlds & Social Making

Abstract

Community is at the heart of the Making Futures agenda, and this 2019 edition, ‘People, Place, Meaning: Crafting Social Worlds & Social Making’, curated by Malcolm Ferris, is no exception. As a collection of essays from makers, scholars, organisers and educators from across the globe, it appreciates the value of makers as singular creative agents producing material objects, as well as the social dimensions of these maker practices positively contribute to the construction and regeneration of communities.

Of particular interest within this issue is how individual practices develop and promote socially and environmentally responsible making practices, but also how these singular enterprises can cluster into ‘place-based’ creative maker-ecologies capable of producing value through the enhancement of community life in ways that encourage more progressive circuits of engagement, production and consumption.

This issue of the Making Futures Journal consists papers selected from presenters at our 2019 Making Futures biennial conference held at Plymouth College of Art in Plymouth, UK in September 2019 and peer-reviewed by our Editorial Committee.

—Stephanie Owens and Judith Noble, Making Futures Journal Co-editors.