Exploring a Region's Potential

Make Works builds small scale networks of production and manufacturing to help develop environmentally sustainable systems for the future. From distributed production, reducing carbon emissions released in transportation and shipping; to supporting local, resilient economies; to providing communities with access to tools and skills needed to repair existing things.

On a practical level 👉 Make Works sources local manufacturers, craftspeople, workshops and material suppliers. 👉 Creates accessible information about manufacturers to inspire people to make, create, prototype, build and repair things in the world. 👉 Gives citizens access to information about manufacturing meaning they can make more conscious decisions about their consumption habits.

👉 Improves the quality and integrity of what can be designed and made by understanding the materials and production processes used.

👉 Allows businesses to take more responsibility for the working conditions and the environment that any manufacturing they commission locally affects.