Get Hooked

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