Craft, textiles, and circular design community meeting!

make-a-thek lands in Barcelona with a community meet-up on craft, textiles, and circular design!

On Tuesday, July 2nd, if you’re based in Barcelona, join us in the beautiful garden of La Clandestina for a relaxed afternoon of sharing ideas and snacks.

We’ll host a co-design session to explore how we can create a circular maker and craft space at Camp de l’Arpa Library, who is interested, what it could become, and what kinds of local activities we could develop together.

Over the next three years, make-a-thek will bring together public libraries, local makers, craft and fashion communities, and experts in circular design and entrepreneurship.
Together, we’ll explore and test hands-on, locally rooted business models that support a circular economy – all inspired by the values of the New European Bauhaus.

If you’re in Barcelona, let us know you’re coming by signing up here

What’s make-a-thek?

make-a-thek envisions public libraries as a place for circular economy experience and co-creation focused on fashion and crafts.

In a disconnected world of fast fashion and throw-away things, make-a-thek brings back

creativity, craftship and community. By partnering with selected libraries in Europe and beyond, make-a-thek gives a place for innovation, learning and sharing, promoting a more circular, local economy.

It brings together the great work that is already happening; strengthens public libraries as community hubs, and offers an international platform for the community circular movement.

We encourage people to move away from the consumerism model of design, use and waste to consciously thinking about what they buy, make, and use in fashion and crafts. We also inspire new circular business models by co-creating the needed infrastructure for local production, care, repair and reuse or recycling. This allows for locally meaningful circular products and services to be trialled in a real-life setting.

make-a-thek is funded by the European Union through its Horizon Europe program for research and innovation. make-a-thek will run until January 2028.