ABSTRACT
Out of the adversity of ‘Austerity’ there was the sobering wake-up call that change was an imperative. Yet Austerity has not become a thing of the past, nor has it made for a more ‘responsible’ society. Anxious anxiety permeates all aspects of contemporary life with no obvious coping mechanisms to adapt to these pervasive conditions. The sense of ‘well-being,’ more than ever, is the priority. For many it is the intimate engaging in making, finding a relationship with making processes and materials that regains some equilibrium that herald well-being values.I am a practitioner rooted in embroidery and I locate my practice in that of the Applied Materials domain. I argue that the making methodologies by their very nature can be transformative, free from prescriptive conformity. It has enabled and informed my personal experiential understanding of a practice and enabled and informed the changing needs of an educational landscape.
