Making leaders/curating maker cultures

Abstract

This workshop addressed two parallel or interrelated strands. Firstly, we set out to explore the underexploited potential of craft makers as leaders and the value of creative maker practices in developing qualities that contribute to good leadership, not just within the contemporary craft world, but in wider work and social contexts. Closely allied to this aim we looked at an area where leadership in relation to craft, manifests itself clearly, in contemporary developments in maker ecologies – networks, clusters and communities of makers and the evolving phenomena of ‘maker spaces’.