Booking required via events links below | Please note there are a limited number of tickets available for the full symposium as well as tickets for each talk

1.00-2.00pm: Crafting Impact: Visionary Initiatives Reshaping the Value of Craft

What futures are created by sharing a passion for craft through a visionary initiative? This panel offers a rare opportunity to hear from the leaders behind the most impactful craft-led initiatives of today, and tomorrow.

Chair: Dr James Fox, author of Craftland and Creative Director, Hugo Burge Foundation

Panelists:
Crispin Kelly, Founder of Clay1A and CEO of Baylight Properties
Kate Malone, Founder of FiredUp4 and award winning ceramic artist
Celine Vogt, Events and Programmes Director, Michelangelo Foundation

2.15-3.15pm: Crafting Places: Cultural Expression in the Built Environment

This panel will explore how craft practices across times and places could contribute to rejuvenated, dynamic and critical places and spaces in our built environment. Through materiality, technique, and equitable exchange, craft can inscribe and re-inscribe memories and meaning reflecting hybrid and diverse heritages and identities.

Chair: Dr Neal Shasore – Founder, The School of Building CIC and the City Craft programme

Panelists:
Ben Bolgar MVO, Executive Director, The King’s Foundation
Daniel Robbins, Senior Curator, Leighton House
Debika Ray, Journalist and Editor
Dr Lois Rowe, Principal, City & Guilds of London Art School

3.30-4.30pm: Objects and Us: Dr Gus Casely-Hayford in conversation with TF Chan

Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A East, joins TF Chan, Director of Collect, to explore how we relate to and connect with the objects in our lives, and the role museum collections can play in shaping contemporary culture.