Getting Making, Challenge #3

Getting Making, Challenge #2

Getting Making: Session 1

The first session was a real success, with lots of great objects, ideas and discussion. We talked about things as diverse as Orlan, plywood, rubix cubes and sweets!

Getting Making, Challenge #1

Getting Making, the brief

THE RULES

No computers, ipads etc, only actual physical objects

As we each present our work, the presenter will not speak but the viewers will. 

Spend 2 hours or more on this project per week

EXPLANATION

Each week a new challenge will be set.  We will work on these challenges individually, making objects in response to them.

Through this we will explore making through 3d objects and materials, we will think with and through materials and see how our objects visually and physically communicate our ideas. 

The made objects do not need to be very finished, they should be explorations of what you can do, and why you are doing it, samples of your ideas and aesthetic.

We will share the results of our explorations weekly, meeting for an hour in the MADM studio after the Wednesday lectures.

This will involve all of us putting our objects out on display for each other to see and having a small discussion around them.  

The next challenge will be explained at the end of the discussion.

We will post about our made objects on our blogs so we can revisit each others work

Each week we will try to find new artists, makers, designers, buildings, architects, objects, whatever or whoever that relate to our objects and post these on our blogs too

·      the objects can be big or small, whatever suits you

·      they can be made from whatever suits you

·      they do not have to be finished products, or polished in anyway, it doesn’t matter what the objects look like

·      they should speak of your ideas without you having to explain them

·      challenge yourself - think about trying new ideas and materials 

·      work with materials, ideas and shape/form

Getting Making

JMB Collective are starting a new project with the full time students on the MA Designer Maker at Camberwell.  We will set a new challenge each week to help us all think about our making, and through and about objects.

The first challenge will be given tomorrow afternoon to the group and we will post it here too.

People's Pots workshop

Today we ran our People's Pots workshop, inviting people to come along and learn how to crochet a basic vessel. We'd made up lots of balls of yarn from disused materials: plastic bags, old fabric and sheets. We started participants off with balls of regular yarn, inviting them to graduate to the challenges of the uneven recycled yarns once they'd got the hang of it. There were some great results, and all very different.

Come and join us for our next workshop in a few weeks time!

Mend*rs Symposium

JMB ran the first DIY Store at Mend*rs symposium, Cumbria. Hosted graciously at Bill Lloyd's Slough Farm in the beautiful Cumbria countryside, this was the first ever large-scale mending gathering in the UK. We were really pleased to be a part of it, and to meet so many amazing people.



Our DIY Store was housed in the cow shed...

That we shared with a nest of fledging swallows....

We had lots of materials and things to spark ideas

We'd brought a range of things that needed fixing, but also asked other attendees to bring things that they had that need fixing. 

Bridget's fixed a bird house

Meghan's jug, rescued from outside a house near Peckham Rye station, was given a new handle. 

Tom gave Jonnet's shoes a new lease of life.

Take Me Make Me workshop

Last Saturday JMB were at Camberwell Open House.  We were giving out Take Me Make Me boxes - a kit of stuff to make with and asking people to have a go at making something from the ingredients in the kit.  Some of the results are pictured here!  Each kit had a different set of familiar objects in it, we hoped it would inspire people to look differently at the objects surrounding them at home, and what their potential could be.
We had a lot of interest and gave out 60 kits (thank you if you were one of those who took part) and got some great feedback from our visitors. 

Kit preparation

Got any broken stuff?

The D.I.Y Store - Mend*rs symposium

We're planning for our forthcoming workshop at Mend*rs symposium at the end of the month. We've just had a little logo designed for it. We're planning to use it on a hand-painted sign and stamp. More updates over the coming weeks.