Craftspace Collective
with Nousheen Lelia Saboonpaz
A workshop from August 2011 in Pigeon Park, Birmingham.
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Craftspace Collective
Project Summary
See photos from Clothes Show Live 2011!
The
Craftspace Collective alongside professional artists and new graduates
and in partnership with VSM (UK)
Ltd., and their Husqvarna Viking sewing machines helped visitors to
the Clothes Show Live at Birmingham’s NEC create a giant art
intervention responding to the theme of
‘consumers being socially responsible’.
See the flickr link below for some great images...
Follow us on twitter @welovecraft
Chat about the project and find out about meetings and events on the Craftspace Collective facebook page.
For more info about the Collective and guerilla craft/ DIY and Craftivism visit the blog craftspacecollective.wordpress.com.
More images from our projects and events are on our flickr group
www.flickr.com/groups/craftspacecollective/
If you are interested in joining the group then join our facebook group and email craftspacecollective@craftspace.co.uk
Want to know more about the group?
If you are 16-25 and interested in joining there is more information on the 'Get Involved!' blog page.
Craftspace Collective: Project Outline
This project is aimed at diverse young people aged 16 – 25 from inner city Birmingham (some of whom are not in education, employment and training, NEETS) but who have some interest/ability in the arts. The project focuses on ideas of Guerrilla craft, DIY Craft and Craftivism.
The group has grown during 2011, working with professional designer makers and Craftspace to plan and deliver interventions, events and workshops in and around Birmingham. 2012 will also see them publishing their own guerilla craft kit book.
We want young people to develop a shared interest in making, to have a voice/express opinions and to explore theirs’ and other’s creativity. Through the development of the collective they might want to explore:
· Thinking through craft
· The relationship between craft and youth culture
· The relationship between craft and current social, political and economic conditions (credit crunch/global economic crises)
We are also interested in identifying concrete things that young people can get out of the project (e.g. arts award/mentoring opportunities/signposting as appropriate).
We have worked in collaboration with the Colmore Business District in Birmingham, Husqvarna Viking sewing machines a the Clothes Show Live.
Photographs © : Craftspace
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