Skills & Factory 4.0 - Roundtable Discussion

In association with Crafts Council and Lancashire Skills Hub.

Modeated by Hannah Stewart

We start the main symposium day of the conference programme with an intimate conversation about creating and making skills in education and training. We will explore the skills implications of factory 4.0 and the impact of automisation and other technologies in manufacturing.

Further context is provided by Crafts Council's Our Future is in the Making: An Education Manifesto for Craft and Making

In recent years the number of higher education craft courses have fallen. This comes when elsewhere around the globe investment in creative education and making is rising.

The report supports he case that an education in craft develops creativity, inventiveness, problem-solving and practical intelligence. It also produces the makers of the future.

Download the report

This session is for a specially invited audience of creative industry practitioners, educational representatives and key local business and industry partners. Limited tickets are available via Eventbrite for people interested in being involved in the discussion.

About Hannah Stewart
Hannah Stewart does curiosity driven research and making to explore what futures are possible or probable; using artefacts, speculative design and action research projects. Hannah is currently a Researcher at the Royal College of Art. Managing and producing research for the EPSRC funded Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing Network and also the AHRC funded 'Ethics into practice, practice into products’ associated with Hello Shenzhen. She was commissioned to produce the UK Makespaces Open Dataset for NESTA with Andrew Sleigh and really should hurry up and submit her PhD thesis from the Creative Exchange which focuses on the values and practices of the maker space and open data communities in relation to the principles of the commons.

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Creative Lancashire are proud partners of National Festival of Making. In the days surrounding the weekend celebration on 12 and 13 May, Creative Lancashire will present the National Festival of Making Conference Programme, in association with Crafts Council and GF Smith, to name a few.

Join us for a series of presentations, panels, and discussions to be held in Blackburn and Preston from 10 May onwards. We will be exploring the relationship between making, skills, and new or emerging technologies, through a variety of events aimed at creative practitioners, professional makers, manufacturing businesses, and those working in related fields.

For more information please visit the dedicated National Festival of Making Conference Website: Click here