I'm really interested in the idea of collaborating; with industry, museums, science.... This was a really great opportunity to hear about makers doing exactly that:
Matt Duran's collaboration with medical research at the Royal Free hospital in London, to create glass moulds for growing a polymer in, which provides the scaffolding for new noses. More here
Designer / Maker Lizete Druka; project designer, Advanced Colour & Materials at Jaguar.
Sara Robertson and Sarah Taylor showed us their incredible innovative cloth that incorporates light;
made from black Holland Linen printed with a newly developed, white-scattering liquid crystal thermochromic dye, polymer optical fibres and heat sinks. More information here
I was so inspired by Dr Sarat Babu's passion for creating new materials through new manufacturing processes. Below are samples of architectured materials developed through selective laser sintering. More here
Finally, I missed her talk, but am a huge fan of what Fi Scott of Make Works has achieved; an online comprehensive directory of Scottish makers, manufacturers, material suppliers and factories. When can we have one for England!
MATERIAL LAB's Jim Biddulph writes a great blog report from the conference:
http://www.material-lab.co.uk/blog/post/makeshift-2014/
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