Skip to content
Blogs

Festival of Making – July 2023

Sep 4, 2023 blog
hiCraft’s Festival of Making workshop in Blackburn explored IoT through physical making: Crafting connections: imagining and making your Internet of Things with hiCraft. Held in July, the Festival of Making provided an opportunity for people to imagine and think about

Read More »

Sean Kingsley – hiCraft Reflections – Part 5

Aug 30, 2022 blog
This is a brief overview of some of the explorations in hiCraft.There are independent projects emerging, captured by sketchbook, camera conversations and reflections. “How does it feel to be made” This still has legs… “Anstruther clay” “Ladies curling rink” As the clay dries out, thought

Read More »

Rachael Colley Blog 2: What can design do?

Jul 25, 2022 blog
The Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition asked, ‘What can design do?’, presenting a broad range of designs which aim to be sustainable, following circular design principles as opposed to the current ‘take, make, waste’ model of consumption. Designers of IoT are encouraged to

Read More »

Jayne Blog 2: Everything Has a Voice

Jun 13, 2022 blog
Through the Ongoingness project concepts of dialogicality have been extremely useful and they feel relevant, albeit for a different reason/context, in our hiCraft project. The ideas of dialogicality come from lliterary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin’s work – a great book in

Read More »

Nicola Naismith Blog 3: Loops

Jun 6, 2022 blog
There are loops and then there are loops The Arduino session was certainly an exploration into tech that was completely new to me. Working with components and coding for the first time was daunting, and I stumbled somewhat with the first

Read More »

Rachael Colley – Thoughts from the hiCraft launch event

May 6, 2022 blog
As stated during Justin’s introduction to the hiCraft research project, “craft practices often draw on concepts of subjectivity, personalisation/bespokeness, localism, embodiment, provenance, authenticity, and care”. Several of these key aspects were explored through the craft commission I created for Craftspace’s national touring exhibition We Are

Read More »