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Get Hooked
Join the circular making revolution and make your own homewares from reused V&A exhibition waste in this simple woodworking workshop for the Great Exhibition Road Festival
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Past Event
This is your chance to learn how to make an essential household object - coat hooks - using timber from a reclaimed art shipping crate. You’ll be taught by the Re:Works cooperative team to make accurate measurements, markings and saw cuts. You’ll be working with circular design principles - including an interlocking form that minimises waste - and learn about how this innovative making co-op was formed. You’ll leave with your own unique creation, the satisfaction of making something useful and insight into fairer ways of making and living.
Re:Works is a collaboration between the V&A, Participatory City and the residents of Barking and Dagenham to reuse exhibition waste and enable creative livelihoods.
About Participatory City:
Participatory City Foundation (PCF) was established in 2017 to deliver Every One Every Day, a five year research and development project into the feasibility, practical implementation, potential impact and sustainability of participation systems at the heart of a London Borough.
Great Exhibition Road Festival: One World
Can art and science help inspire a greener future for the planet we share? Join us at the Great Exhibition Road Festival for a celebration of our remarkable world to explore how together we can protect its future against the imminent threat of climate change.
Part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival at V&A
Our thanks to Constantine Ltd for donating art shipping crates to Re:Works
Header image: GERF Re:Works workshop