Crafting the Future

“Crafting the Future” will showcase inspirational speakers, hear from panels of experts, instigate the right questions and advance potential solutions, as well as providing opportunities for everyone from young professionals to absolute beginners to explore making, mending and the craft of caring for our clothes.

Let’s explore sustainability in fashion, innovation and sustainable materials under a critical thinking lens, the role of technology for a transparent supply chain, design solutions to environmental challenges and in particular, the role of crafts within this complex panorama.

Through international collaboration, Crafting Futures creates new networks and opportunities for shared learning between the UK and other countries around the globe. The programme supports research and education in craft, ensuring our projects are relevant and the quality of creative practice is preserved and continues to develop.  Crafting Futures offers designers and artisans access to knowledge and expertise, new markets and new audiences, ensuring the value of craft is appreciated more broadly and knowledge can continue to be shared within the sector.

We work with a consortium of partners in the UK and match them with overseas partners. We are supported by Regional Advisory Groups of local craft, design, technology and social enterprise experts. The programme is currently active in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Latin America