To tie in with the Think Plastic: Materials and Making exhibition, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Applied Arts Scotland are running a workshop for makers interested in crafting a more environmentally sustainable practice. This afternoon workshop will help you explore your own approaches to materials and making, identify good practice and stimulate a exchange of ideas.

As RBGE is temporarily closed, we see this as an exciting opportunity to practice environmentally conscious ways of working so this will be a digital workshop instead of face to face. We are currently testing the technology and converting the workshop content, and will provide full details of this new format in the next couple of days.

The workshop will give practical insights and structures for rethinking your current processes including your use of energy and materials. You will have the chance to review your ways of working and identify positive changes you can make to the environmental impact of your business and lifecycle of your products and services. Makers and exhibitors Carol Sinclair and Lorna Fraser will share how they are making changes to their practice.

Places are limited and must be booked in advance.

A professional development event brought to you by Applied Arts Scotland in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Think Plastic: Materials and Making is part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s 350th anniversary programme. The project has been supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, players of People’s Postcode Lottery, The City of Edinburgh Council, Friends of RBGE, Interface, and Professor Michael Shaver’s Green Materials Laboratory at both the University of Edinburgh and the University of Manchester.