Make Works Best Practices Guides
Supporting individuals, organisations and communities in taking a local approach to the regeneration of their economy through distributed design practices.
Make Works Best Practice Guides supports individuals, organisations and communities passionate about manufacturing with their local approach to the regeneration of their economy, embedding sustainability, preservation of cultural heritage and skills through distributed design practices. The three Guides are written via the lens of the Make Works platform and those who produce our Make Works regions.
Each of the Guides are for:
1) Designers, Artists and Makers
2) Industry Partners and Micro-Manufacturers
3) Policy Makers
What is Makes Works
Make Works’ mission is to make local manufacturing openly accessible.
It is a global network of regions and a global library for local manufacturing, connecting people who want to make with people who do. Make Works aims for free and accessible fabrication for designers, artists and makers. An open resource made by dedicated factory finding geeks, it is a place to discover skilled manufacturers, tools and materials to make work within a local area. Make Works consists of regions each led by community champions in collaboration with local partners. Make Works believes in distributed teams, collaborative governance and mutual activation and benefit, operating in 18 regions, and it is growing.
Who is involved
Make Works is headquartered at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Fab City Research Lab Barcelona, and sits within Fab City’s Distributed Design Platform, funded by Creative Europe.
Make Works partners with individuals and organisations globally who want to run their own open-access directory of manufacturing for their region, as they define it. Our partners are fellow factory finding geeks and community champions who are passionate about local manufacturing from perspectives including creativity, sustainability, economy, heritage and skills.
If you want to start your own Make Works region, go to the HandBook.
Explore the Make Works Best Practices Guides
If you are a creative looking to fabricate, go to the Make Works Best Practice Guide for Designers, Artists and Makers here.
If you are a factory, manufacturer, studio, fabricator, workspace provider, material supplier offering services, go to the Make Works Best Practice Guide for Industry Partners and Micro-Manufacturers here.
If you want to champion and support your creative community in their making, manufacturing, production, go to the Make Works Best Practice Guide for Policy Makers here.
