Makeshift & Middleground
Makeshift – Craft, Design & Make

Makeshift casts an expansive net, encompassing design, making and craft. The breadth of the net includes the social and fabricating, the disappearing world of crafts tradition and the future of virtual and embodied maker experience. 

Middleground – features on all sorts of interesting subjects in the middle of the magazine. Middleground pieces are short, sharp (and sometimes longer) mini-features found in the middle of the magazine.

Materialise is a new strand to Makeshift focused on materials, materiality and the cultures of making.

Design & Make/Middleground/Makeshift
Middleground/Makeshift I - Paper, Clay, Seaweed
I - Paper, Clay, Seaweed

Paper - the Paper Folding Art of Katherine Rose – by Jonathan Rose
Clay – Karak’s raku tiles craft - by Oliver Lowenstein
Seaweed - Julia Lohmann – Seaweed’s Biodesign Mer-queen - by Oliver Lowenstein
Middleground/Materialise II: Seaweed, Clay, Paper

Clay - Ranti Bam’s video clay play: Complete piece available
Paper - Paperback’s Story: Complete piece available
Paper – W/here are you a local? – Emma Lambert’s book art without borders: Complete piece available
Middleground

Brighton’s Elms – surviving and thriving by Alister Peters
Crafting a philosophy of the Jug – by Daniela Zimmermann
Earth & Utopia: Hassan Fathy - Earth builder
Building with Fire – ceramicist Ray Meeker’s fired buildings
De War, Holland, home of the first grassroots Fab Lab
Rebooting the Woodland - Dartington’s Woodland Presents and Woodlab makerspace project’s – by Al Tempest
Unstructured 8 extra – Way Out West - Supertraditional – an interview with Norway’s pre-eminent traditional wood boat-builder, Jon Godal by Martin Beverfjord (2018)
Unstructured 8 extra – Way Out West Trondheim’s vernacular waterfront warehouse tradition - by Eileen Garmann Johnsen (2018)
East/West - Japanese architecture, craft & design – A mini-themed section.

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Making buildings making books Takero Shimazaki on his Craft in Context summer schools

An East West feature
The Fine art of Japanese Fibre Art by Tochimichi Kuwayama


An East West feature
Ruthin Craft Centre
Japan-ness in Wales - Ruthin Craft Centre's Sustaining Design exhibition by Michael Nixon
An East West feature
Electronic and ancient living Cambodian mixed-media musics- by David Gunn


Ross Lovegrove's Solar Trees
Another Kate Dodd
Lovely recipe
Makeshift

Wood Studio
Wood Studio - Helsinki's Cool Wood School by Pekka Heikkinen             

A Blue to Dye for - Indigo clothing and textiles exhibition
Steppe – A magazine dedicated to the near-east Stan countries
0's and 1's - Matt Lumby's Binary Books
Kate Dodd's lovely recipe - Carrot Soup with North African spices
Middleground

Bernhard Wulff on the Mongolian steppe Roaring Hooves Festival

Jay Griffiths writing on time and the river
Makeshift

Darwin on the Beach – George Dyson's space-age baidarka boats
Skinboat School for Baidarka boat building
Through the SurfaceLesley Miller on her most ambitious cross-cultural fibre-art showcase
Machiko Agano the Japanese fibre-artist featured in the Transition and Influence exhibitions
Anniken Amundsen the Norwegian textile artist highlighted in Through the Surface
The sWordsmanship CD Rom calligraphy of Denis Brown explored
Middleground

Toward an Ecology of Clothing by Kate Fletcher
It's no Yoke – Yoke Magazine
Manna from Heaven café's Honey and Olive oil cake recipe
Freeze FRIA Ursula Tischner's refridgerators with a difference
Gardening by Ages – the Museum of Garden History
Makeshift

Hybrid Haystack MIT Media Lab and Haystack Centre for craft crossover symposium conversation by Chris Rose
Love Tokens Harold Lowenstein on an almost lost crafts-skill
Sonic Furniture of Kaffe Matthews
Middleground

Orange Cake Bake recipe from Heidi Watts
Sense of Scale - Adam Niemann's Scale Explorer
Related in Unstructured 3



Soundtrack: Jony Easterby's sound installation in Ashbourne cycle path tunnel, Derbyshire.
A Sound Design piece
Makeshift



Khadi papers founder Nigel Macfarlane on the Sussex/Rajasthan Gandhian paper
The Space of TexturesLesley Millar on the cross-cultural exhibition Textural Space, exploring Japanese and British fibre-art
Impossible furniture - Fred Baier in conversation with Chris Rose
A Kitchen Ritual Miche Fabre Lewin Lovely recipe's part IV
Middleground

Adriaan Beukers the promise of Lightness in design
John Thackera and the Doors of Perception design conferences
Related

Of Programmatalogy John Cayley's algorithmic haiku – interviewed by John Welch
Anne Karin Rynander's Oslo Airport Sound-Showers

A Fourth Door Sound Design feature
Makeshift

Clay and Computers, Katie Bunnell's Re: Presenting Making CD Rom
Making traditional Portuguese toys by Simon Watts

Complete article available
Lovely recipe's Curry Pancake


Complete article available
Polite gardening Permaculture hints by Patrick Whitefield

Complete article available  
Middleground

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Siberian cultures of clothing Spirit of Siberia by Rick Riewe and Jill Oakes
Placing the hand at the heart of our evolutionary make-up - The Hand by Frank Wilson and Abstracting Craft: the digital practiced hand by Malcolm McCullogh
Future Sound of London – Between Silence and the Sound of the Hyperglade   
Helena Hietanen's fibre-optic technolace: Angel hairs in the ambient   
Brian Eno  Ambient lightworks
Sculpting the luminous - the radical holography of Dieter Jung
Makeshift

Growing Need wild vegetables Patrick Whitefield
Marimba Making by Knock On Wood's Andy Wilson
Art Kites  Pictures for the Sky

Complete article available
Middleground

Leaving the 20th century health food store Infinity Foods
Related

Sound Gallery the Copenhagen Square wired for sound-sculpting
Ethnic and world clothing World Dress by Frances Kennett.
Makeshift

Marion Brandis Clay and Ceramics
Lovely recipe's Mushroom and nut roast
Middleground

The Weald & Downland's vernacular data base Singleton Open Air Museum