9/17/2009 9:00:00 AM to 9/18/2009 5:00:00 PM

Mount Edgcumbe House, Plymouth

Plymouth College of Art

The purpose of ‘Making Futures' is to improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are practiced in relation to significant and new emerging agendas relating to global environmental and sustainability issues.

The objectives include trying to understand whether these ‘agendas’ offer opportunities for the crafts to redefine and reconstitute themselves as less marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society, through new formulations and/or re-articulations of practices, identities, positions and markets, in ways that might engage more closely with contemporary social and cultural needs.

Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Richard Sennett (USA)

For further information please visit the conference website at http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/