Make do and Mend Workshop with designer Lou Rota

V&A Museum of Childhood

View our current exhibiton, Make do and Mend and join a drop-in craft workshop using recycled and salvaged materials.

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Exhibition
Make Do and Mend
13 June - 8 November 2009
FREE
How can a broken shopping trolley be transformed into a stylish piece of furniture? Anti-waste wartime tips on cutting excessive consumption have an obvious resonance in today’s economic climate. The campaign to salvage, recycle, and reduce your carbon footprint, is impacting on design. This exhibition combines the work of contemporary designers and local schoolchildren. Jon Male, Lou Rota and Max McMurdo rework salvaged domestic and industrial waste to create stylish, quirky new products. Local schoolchildren working with artists have also produced their own whimsical versions of re-created domestic objects.

Supported by the Wates Foundation

Special Event
Thursday 24 September 2009
18.00-20.00
Craft workshop with designer Lou Rota
FREE
Lou Rota's work focuses primarily on the transformation of existing products. Enjoy a chance to look around the exhibition with a glass of wine, and take part in this drop-in workshop using recycled and salvaged materials such as tin cans, magazines, seed catalogues and other scraps. Lou will be demonstrating decoupage techniques along with tips on how to make something out of nothing. Visitors are invited to come along and make a newspaper and bug pen pot, floral storage box, table mat or similar to take home.

Suitable for adults, and children 8+ with an accompanying adult.

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