A talk about making, and how the objects we make (or manufacture) can be used to tell stories. Given to participants in the Sandberg @ Media Fund masterclass at Lighthouse in January 2015

1. Hello

2. Story Making
Andrew Sleigh
Sandberg @ Media Fonds
10 January 2015

12. Making is important

13. Can we tell stories by
making objects?

14. Brands

17. Mediation

19. Edward Burtynsky
Manufactured Landscapes

20. Curtis James
Makers at Work
www.thisisbeyondwork.com

21. Nostalgia

22. The Lamp of Life
"Hand-work might always be
known from machine-work"
John Ruskin 1849
The 7 Lamps of Making
Dean Brown
www.7lamps.info

23. Primate communication → Language
Oral lore → Writing/mathematical notation
Scripts → Printing
Book knowledge → Scientific method
Artisan production → Mass production
Industrial culture → Ubiquitous global communication
– Kevin Kelly
What Technology Wants

24. Personalisation

26. Play

27. Makies
makies.com

30. Story-telling industry

32. SuperFanArt
Shapeways & Hasbro
www.shapeways.com/superfanart/mylittlepony

33. Art

35. Bumper
Tobias Revell

37. Communication

39. Stickers on Boxes
Stuart Bannocks
www.stickersonboxes.com

41. Validation

47. Make!