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Making Lewes

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Making Lewes is a cultural and community initiative crystallised by Fourth Door in Lewes, Sussex, Southern England.

Originally a Fourth Door project, Making Lewes has evolved since its inception in October 2013 and with a core group of co-catalysers, has become a community events and workshop organisation focused on Lewes and environs. Like Fourth Door it works across disciplines while focused on making and maker culture, craft, sustainability and larger scale making - building and self-build – element of architecture.

Since 2014 Making Lewes has hosted three Make Lewes Festivals, four seasonal talks series, child, family and general public maker workshops, alongside films and other related projects. A number of these have been in association with Fourth Door.

Alongside introducing some of the best-known figures in the UK and European sustainable architecture and the built environment and maker and craft culture to the town community, Making Lewes has sought to highlight, profile and act as a platform for the Lewes based community of makers and crafts people.  

To help nurture the town’s diverse maker and craft culture Making Lewes developed a community bid in 2017 to turn a well known Lewes building, the Turkish Baths, into a 21st century green maker space. The application was unsuccessful and Making Lewes is currently working on other ways to set up the maker space.

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Its last major project was Collaborative Kaleidoscope, a series of evening events which highlighted makers, craftspeople, architects and hands on educators over the six Friday evenings in autumn 2017, including guest speakers from Iceland and Denmark. The evening events happened in the new Lewes cultural venue, Fitzroy House.

A number of Making Lewes related projects have been carried out under the aegis of Fourth Door. These include the following:

            Re-Envisioning Phoenix – Broadening the Conversation - August 2013 (pdf 2MB)

            Re-Envisioning Phoenix 2.0 - October 2014 (pdf 9MB)

            A Maker-Space for 21st Century – February 2017 (pdf 6MB)

 

Check out Making Lewes’s website here www.makinglewes.org

         

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