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MAKESHIFT STUDIO 0 1:
from Four Work Samples
by juliansnider
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August 2016
Interior Renovation (with Makeshift Collective) julianchusnider.com/portfolio/makeshiftstudio wemakeshift.com
@makeshiftcollective
How does one build a community?
This narrative cross section describes a community that calls itself Makeshift --a collective in the truest sense: a selforganized cross-pollination of disciplines that shares resources, space, and knowledge in order to enable each other’s creative pursuits. Wherever and whenever possible, we collaborate on projects, using our shared studio as a laboratory for creative experiments.
In 2016 my partners Alex, Nam, and I acquired a permanent studio space for Makeshift, renovating, re-branding, and incorporating as Makeshift Studio Inc. Each of us took ownership over one domain of the community, laying the foundations for it to grow as others joined the effort. I led the renovation of the studio space, with special attention focused on building an addition to house our woodshop and assembly room, which included engineering and fabricating a custom glulam beam made from salvaged old-growth studs found in a demolished interior wall.
With the spaces built out and the resources in place, the rest of the studio took shape as people received training and confidence in their ability to occupy and outfit their own individual corners of the studio.
Today, Makeshift is shared by freelance designers, furniture-makers, fashion and textile designers, filmmakers, digital fabricators, photographers, architects, illustrators, ceramicists, and general creative souls. ...
