Making Futures - Conference

<h2>BEYOND OBJECTS / / MATERIALITY AT THE EDGE OF MAKING <br />17, 18, 19 OCTOBER 2024</h2> <p>Making Futures 2024 will explore craft encounters with current material innovations where artists, artisans, designers and others work across disciplines and communities toward a more equitable, sustainable and resilient world.<br /><br />The conference looks at how these encounters begin to alter both the formal and conceptual expectations of craft, opening traditional techniques to the behavioural, biological and environmental dimensions of physical matter beyond object-making, to take a more holistic view of how materiality shapes and influences human experience.</p> <p>As with all forms of creative practice, the boundary of what is considered ‘craft’ is fugitive—adapting and transforming as we look with urgency at how the deep, historical knowledge and artisan traditions associated with craft might provide contemporary society with an alternative to our current habits of consumption and enable us to live more respectfully with each other, the natural world and our planet.</p> <p><em>*Please note that the conference schedule is subject to change as we finalise participants and events.</em></p>