Craft School: Material World - Creative Mending with Maiko Tsutsumi
Channel: CraftsCouncil
Date: 2024-02-13

Our annual nationwide challenge Craft School is taking place in classrooms across the UK.  The programme invites children, young people, their teachers and craft educators to engage with the power of craft thinking and making.

This year, we've teamed up with Cornwall's global garden and education charity - The Eden Project - to bring you Craft School: Material World. Together, we invite learners to explore the natural and human-made materials around them and how they relate to their own heritage, community or the place where they live.  

Material World, runs from September 2023 - June 2024, and September 2024 - June 2025. 

KS1 to KS4 learners are invited to make 3D works in response to three themes:

1.   Renewable Materials
Making using found materials to explore local habitats and nature
2.    Creative Mending
Explore ways to mend and combine materials to give them a new life
3.   Reclaim and Reuse
Save materials that would otherwise become waste to tackle sustainability, climate justice and making practices from around the world

Crafts Council is commissioning short films with different makers, each film explores one of the themes above. 

This film features Maiko Tsutsumi, an artist and curator trained in woodwork and Japanese lacquer. Join Maiko in exploring the importance of creative mending through the lens of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing.