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Malcolm Garrett is Creative Director at the design consultancy Images&Co, with offices in London and Manchester. Images&Co is a creative partnership with Kasper de Graaf that was first established in 1981, when together they produced the ground-breaking, style magazine ‘New Sounds New Styles’. Malcolm is widely regarded as a key influence on the development of…
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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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Catarina King cofounded Society 1, a co-working space in Preston, with Brendan King and Christopher Ruppert. Their collective backgrounds range from catering to travel and hospitality. Their varied careers span the UK, France, Germany and Australia. They are a dynamic team and passionate about bringing co-working to Lancashire. They took the family restaurant building, the Alpenhof…
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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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