Written by Co-hosted with the European Crafts Alliance (ECA), our upcoming make-a-thek community call explores how craft and maker culture contribute to community building, resilience, and social inclusion. Together, we will look at how creative initiatives become spaces for civic engagement, shared learning, and collaborative production – through the lenses of People, Place, and Resources.
To ground the conversation, we will hear from three inspiring grassroots initiatives from across Europe — Habibi.Works (Greece), La Table Ronde de l’Architecture (France), and Sodas 2123 (Lithuania). Together, these examples open up questions around how craft and making activate community, how place shapes belonging and civic participation, and how shared resources can sustain collaborative, circular ways of working.
Date & Time:
Wednesday, 15 July 2026, 14:00–15:00 CEST
Sign up here: https://zoom.us/j/94460303766
Featured Projects:
Habibi.Works (Greece) An intercultural makerspace where refugees, asylum seekers, local residents, and international volunteers come together to learn, make, and share knowledge through woodworking, sewing, metalwork, and digital fabrication.
La Table Ronde de l’Architecture (France) A collective preserving traditional and vernacular architecture through hands-on building, volunteering, and an emerging international training school.
Sodas 2123 (Lithuania) A self-governed cultural centre in Vilnius that brings together over 60 studios and workshops, demonstrating how shared resources, adaptive reuse, and circular design can support thriving creative communities.
We’re happy to be kicking off our Community Calls again after a short break — see you then 🙂
make-a-thek has received funding from the European Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No. 101177660.
