Our network

Make Works partners with individuals and organisations across the UK and beyond who want to run their own open-access directory of manufacturing for their local area.

Our partners aren't just people using our platform - they are fellow manufacturing geeks who are passionate about local manufacturing. They are spending their days finding the best suppliers, fabricators and workshops to make work in, alongside developing their own distinctive projects and events to help people access production in their area.

The first of these new Make Works in the UK started in Birmingham and is run by Ruth Claxton and Sean O'Keefe of Workshop Birmingham. To find out more about Make Works Birmingham take a look here. The first European Make Works started in Sweden with partners Nordiska Textilakademin. To find out more about Make Works Sweden take a look here. And, the first international Make Works launched in the UAE in November 2017 with the team at Tashkeel based in Dubai. To find out ore about Make Works UAE take a look here. You can also find out more about Derby & Derbyshire and our partnership with Laura and team at Derby Museums here.

More recently, in 2019, Make Works has been transferred to the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), Fab City Research Lab Barcelona, and sits within Fab City’s Distributed Design platform, funded by Creative Europe.

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