Workshop presentation considering the importance, value and role of storytelling for the future of the creative sector, particularly those creating and producing craft.

1. Crafting Future Practice:
Adventures in design, digital and creative networks
Gillian Easson
@gillianeasson

2. Digital channel to promote and develop a strong, active creative
network

3. Creative clusters - real life events and opportunities to connect
and showcase new and established talent
www.pechakucha.org

4. Designing new ways to engage with the city - crowd sourced
downloadable guide

5. Digital place making - enabling pride in place and co-curation

6. 57,943 views
95 countries
974 cities
3,000 posts

8. Creative city making

9. Future talk...

10. Innovation doesn’t have
to mean ‘new’.
http://bit.ly/15917AX

11. The DIY maker revolution
won’t do us all out of a job...

12. You don’t need to try and
hang out everywhere...

13. Biomaterials aren’t just
about printed meats mushrooms matter too.
mushroompackaging.com

14. Future now: Design, innovation and creative
thinking and its role in storytelling

15. Many forms of innovation
and design processes...

16. ... everyone has their own
individual story to tell.
STEFANO ROSSI
http://bit.ly/15POMyF

17. Arlene Birt
www.backgroundstories.com

19. Makers are ace at
visual communication!
http://neomam.com

20. Over to you...
What’s your story?
How can you tell it to the world? e.g. to
customers, buyers, policy makers...

21. Over to you...
What’s Scotland’s craft sector story?
How can we celebrate our strengths in
design, innovation and creative thinking
- and share this with the world?

22. Collective action - physical and digital networks

23. Carefully selected to curate and amplify

24. Over to you...
Why would you want to engage with
digital channels and physical
communities in future?
e.g. to reach markets, connect,
collaborate, sell work
Who do you want to reach?

25. Over to you...
What communities - physical and digital do we need to better connect and share
our collective stories and collaborative
action with the world?
What do they look like?

26. Thanks and please do keep in touch!
Gillian Easson
@gillianeasson
gillian@creativedundee.com