Make/Share is a free monthly event, bringing people together to gain a behind the scenes insight into creative processes. This month, the talks will be held during Dundee Design Festival in WRKSHP – a practical work base for designers and creatives to work from and share their practice with other creative practitioners and festival visitors, which is run by Creative Dundee and temporally installed in Gallery 1, West Ward Works, Guthrie Street, Dundee, DD1 5BR. Read more about this space here.

Join us on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th afternoon and hear short talks by local creative talents about the processes behind turning their idea, project or product into reality and how they engage with the city’s communities. The talks will happen every hour, on the hour from noon. Full line-up below.

Speakers explore how their project or product has evolved, progressed, changed and transformed, how they experiment, what their biggest challenges have been and how they overcame them. After the talks we have a short opportunity for any questions and discussion, and we also invite you to stay after the talks to network with others.

You don’t need to sign up, just come along!

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Speakers this time include:

Thu 25th May – 12pm – Marsali Miller
Thu 25th May – 1pm – Kerry Kidd
Thu 25th May – 2pm – Stephanie Liddle
Thu 25th May – 3pm – Sara Robertson
Thu 25th May – 4pm – Ryan McLeod & Lyall Bruce

Fri 26th May – 12pm – Louise Kirby
Fri 26th May – 1pm – Malath Abbas
Fri 26th May – 2pm – Joanna Helfer
Fri 26th May – 3pm – Laura Geyer
Fri 26th May – 4pm – McGinlay Bell

Marsali Miller

Marsali is a designer based in Dundee. She graduated from DJCAD studying Interior & Environmental Design in 2016 and has since been involved with Creative Dundee, Dundee Global Service Jam and Dundee Design Festival. Marsali has been working with Creative Dundee to design WRKSHP, a creative co-working and workshop space in Dundee Design Festival. She will introduce the space and talk about her design process behind the project. Website: marsalimiller.co.uk

Kerry Kidd

Kerry is a Raspberry pi enthusiast who loves to program and educate others about the raspberry pi and what they can do with them. She also enjoys tinkering with electronics and integrating them into things like robots. She is an active member of Dundee MakerSpace which is a social workspace for all people interested in making anything from electronics to art to furniture to software. Her talk will be about setting up Dream Digital, an educational space in unit 6 which she helped set up along with NEoN and Helm Training to teach a beginners game development course. Website: raspikidd.com | Twitter: @KiddKerry

Stephanie Liddle

Steph is a designer and maker working predominantly in ceramics. With an eye for colour and pattern, and focusing on minimal shapes, combined with bold patterns and a limited colour palette, she creates pieces which are easy to wear and live with. Working from her studio in Dundee, she makes each piece by hand before using underglaze to introduce pattern and illustration motif. Steph will talk about her recent research as she developed a new collection of work, which she’ll be launching next month at the Fruitmarket Design Market in Edinburgh. She’s been exploring new production methods and clay bodies – moving from making predominantly slab-built work in stoneware clay to slip-casting using Parian porcelain clay. Website: homebodymakes.bigcartel.com | Instagram: homebodymakes

Sara Robertson

Sara is the Programme Director for Textile Design at DJCAD, School of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Her role involves, teaching, managing the course, and research, it’s an exciting and rewarding job. Her research focuses on the development of smart textiles, which involves the integration of electronics, smart materials or functional materials within a textile structure or as part of the surface. Sara will talk about a research project that she’s been working on with MYB Textiles in Ayrshire and Sarah Taylor, Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University in which they are exploring the feasibility of manufacturing smart textiles within MYB’s Lace Mill. Twitter: @PopUpWorkshop

Ryan McLeod & Lyall Bruce

Ryan and Lyall work at Fleet Collective which houses a variety of different creative disciplines that sometimes collaborate on larger scale projects and designed the identity and website for this years Dundee Design Festival. Ryan runs a design studio called Slurpp making things that generally involve the internet, clever thinking and a sense of humour – driven by an overwhelming desire to ‘never be beige’. Lyall is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Animator who sometimes works under the name Sooper Double D. Lyall’s work explores the boundaries of typography, character design and technology to achieve unique results. They are going to talk about evolving the identity of the design festival from last year, making it open-source and developing a unique website that looks to use the information generated during the festival in interesting new ways. Website: madebyslurpp.com | sooperdoubled.com | fleetcollective.com | Twitter: @madebyslurpp | @sooperdd | @FleetCollective