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John Robb is a many-faceted creature. Bassist and singer for post-punk mainstays The Membranes, author, journalist, DJ, publisher, vegan behemoth and talking head, he’s all these things and more He grew up in Blackpool before punk rock came along and saved his life. Naively believing that you really could do what you wanted he went…
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Hannah Stewart does curiosity driven research and making to explore what futures are possible or probable; using artefacts, speculative design and action research projects. Hannah is currently a Researcher at the Royal College of Art, managing and producing research for the EPSRC funded Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing Network and also the AHRC funded ‘Ethics into…
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Jamie Holman is an artist, writer and lecturer who achieved critical acclaim after exhibiting in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 1996 at Tate Gallery Liverpool and Camden Arts Centre London. Holman worked in moving image and performance before developing a broader multi-disciplinary practice that included photography and sculpture. Holman was a founding member of the music/artist/writers collective…
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CHARLES HADCOCK DL FRBS Holder of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion I am a contemporary sculptor. I have lived in Lancashire for the last 18 years having relocated from London. I specialise in making large scale cast metal sculpture. My work features in collections around the UK and Europe. With a knowledge of manufacturing…
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Business Innovation for Growth (BIG): Skills & Factory 4.0 Roundtable Moderated by Hannah Stewart (RCA) In association with Crafts Council and Lancashire Skills Hub We start the BIG Conference summit with an intimate conversation about creating and making skills in education and training. We will explore the skills implications of factory 4.0 and the impact…
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Dave Kirkwood founded his art and design practice, DaveKirkwoodStudio, in 2007. Alongside their client work they develop experimental working models for generating unique solutions to core brand visual communications problems. Their commercial work is underpinned by a body of self-initiated projects and stimulated by the teaching they undertake. Previous projects include 3hundredand65 – a graphic…
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Andy has worked across a range of economic development functions and locations within local government for over 20 years. Coming from an economic research and analysis background, his career has developed to include specific sectoral work with Aerospace and Automotive sectors in the West Midlands and the Creative and Digital sector in Glasgow and Greater…
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