Sustainability in the Making

Craft Programmes for Eco-Social Change

A craft-based PhD that explores how cultures of making can contribute to sustainability change.

Top picture of two charcoal sketches, one on a loose white paper representing a wood path and another in a spiral sketchbook representing human figures and a cat sleeping in a round basket. They lie on a wooden floor near a batch of charcoal sticks and two clutch pencils

drawing Alessandra Fasoli July 13, 2025

Craft Farm: Live Sketching with Handmade Charcoal

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large center black text saying "Paperwork is boring" on a background of documents, papers, a laptop and tablet mockup of the participant information sheets for the research "Sustainability in the Making"

Alessandra Fasoli June 4, 2025

Presentation at Cumulus Nantes 2025: "Ethical Leadership, a new frontier for Design"

Presentation of the short paper "Information as an Experience: A Visual Design Approach to Ethics for Building Relationships between…

Scan of 2 pages of hand drawn zine: the cover page with hand drawn all-caps lettering "one thing leads to another" and a second page with the sketches of hyperrealistic sculpture of a barn own with handwritten notes around it. Done with markers, earth warm tones: green, yellow, orange, and red.

Alessandra Fasoli February 8, 2025

"One Thing Leads To Another" : a workshop on observational drawing

I made the zine in the video during an afternoon at MAKE Southwest, moving between their shop and the…

Top picture of two charcoal sketches, one on a loose white paper representing a wood path and another in a spiral sketchbook representing human figures and a cat sleeping in a round basket. They lie on a wooden floor near a batch of charcoal sticks and two clutch pencils

Alessandra Fasoli July 13, 2025

Craft Farm: Live Sketching with Handmade Charcoal

large center black text saying "Paperwork is boring" on a background of documents, papers, a laptop and tablet mockup of the participant information sheets for the research "Sustainability in the Making"

Alessandra Fasoli June 4, 2025

Presentation at Cumulus Nantes 2025: "Ethical Leadership, a new frontier for Design"

Scan of 2 pages of hand drawn zine: the cover page with hand drawn all-caps lettering "one thing leads to another" and a second page with the sketches of hyperrealistic sculpture of a barn own with handwritten notes around it. Done with markers, earth warm tones: green, yellow, orange, and red.

Alessandra Fasoli February 8, 2025

"One Thing Leads To Another" : a workshop on observational drawing

digital watercolour drawing of sketchbooks and pens

Alessandra Fasoli February 3, 2024

EthnoGraphics: sketching people who craft sustainability

Venn Diagram of two circle: a bigger circle with green fill labelled 'Natural Environment' containing a smaller yellow circle labelled 'Human-Made Environment'. In the small circle in the middle the word 'Making' is surrounded by double arrows that connect circularly 'People', 'Place', and 'Practice'

Alessandra Fasoli June 9, 2023

Making as Culture: people, places, practices, and sustainability change

Vector drawing of a woman with a child seated in front of a loom. The vertical textile shows maker tools as woven into the fabric

Alessandra Fasoli July 10, 2022

Craft, Sustainability, and Makerspaces: a Brief Intro to my Research

digital drawing of hands kneading clay

Alessandra Fasoli June 17, 2022

LearnBI0N Conference "Down to Earth" | Stockholm 2022

Digital watercolour drawing of concertina leaflets and coloured pencils on warm colour background with watercolour splatters.

Alessandra Fasoli February 19, 2022

Knowing Devon Craft Communities: The Green Maker Initiative Event

digital drawing of a human figure making a pottery sculpture with the help of a big robot arm.

Alessandra Fasoli June 27, 2021

Design Culture(s) | Cumulus Rome 2021