Started in 2011, It’s Nice to Make explores to what extent creativity can promote wellbeing and health for community groups and individuals and asks "is there a place for craft practice in the neuroplasticity revolution?"
From 2011-2014 It’s Nice to Make ran an arts & wellbeing research project at Headway East London.
Headway supports people affected by acquired brain injury.
#INTM
From 2011-2014 It’s Nice to Make ran an arts & wellbeing research project at Headway East London.
Headway supports people affected by acquired brain injury.
#INTM
Publications:
Magee, J., & Rana, M. (2020). Is Design as a practice completely outside the language of Care? In P. Rodgers , C. Bremner , & G. Innella (Eds.), Does Design Care...?! Head to Head Debates (pp. 103-115). Lancaster.
Rana, M. (2019). An Illustrated* A to Z for the Design of Care: B is for Bed, . In P. Rodgers, C. Bremner, & G. Innella (Eds.), An Illustrated* A to Z for the Design of Care (pp. 39, 40, 52, 59, 60 ). Lancaster: Lancaster University.
Rana, M. & Hackney, F. (2018). Making and Material Affect: From Learning and Teaching to Sharing and Listening, in R. Prior (ed.), Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching, Bristol: Intellect
External Positions:
London champion for The LENS (the lived experience network) 2019- present
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Early Career Researcher, The MARCH Network https://www.marchnetwork.org/
Member of The MARCH Network Special Interest Group: Arts, Crafts and Mental Health
Member of Critical Dementia Network https://memoryfriendly.org.uk/programmes/critical-dementia-network/
External Examiner: MA Metal and Jewellery, Royal Collage of Art, 2017-2020
External Examiner: MA Contemporary Jewellery, University for the Creative Arts: Rochester, 2014 -2017
Co-founder and director of cross-disciplinary & cross-cultural education programme Tandemize
https://design.britishcouncil.org/opportunities/tandemize/
https://design.britishcouncil.org/blog/2016/apr/21/tandemize-20-london-craft-week/
Film screenings:
Pleased to announce that One Day When We Were Young has been selected to be shown at Real to Reel with @CraftCouncilUK & @craftsmagazine @CentralPictureH #RealtoReel
Wednesday 3rd May 2017 - Screening at Picturehouse Central cinema – Shaftesbury Avenue
A film by Mah Rana made for the project The Power of Making: material affect
Fiona Hackney Professor Fashion Textiles Theories, Wolverhampton University, and Mah Rana
Talks and events:
Co-convener for workshop: Crafting Value, Social Making: A Way of Contributing to the World
Making Futures conference, Plymouth College of Art Sept 2019
https://sites.google.com/pca.ac.uk/making-futures/making-futures-2019?authuser=0
Keyword: Craft, Design, Social Making, Activism, Care, Health
Does Design Care…? [2] Workshop - Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Duration: 1 Jul 2019 → 3 Jul 2019
https://www.designresearchforchange.co.uk/does-design-care-2/
Keywords: Design, Care, AHRC, Design Research, Design Research for Change, Health
1st September 2016, joint paper presentation with Dr Fiona Hackney, Professor Fashion Textile Theories; The Power of Making: Material Affect
Art as Research in Learning and Teaching conference at Wolverhampton University.
*9th April 2014: Presenting conference paper titled 'The Embodied Mind: I make, therefore I am' as part of the Exchange and Change: the Art and Craft of Active Communication symposium at the Discourse, Power, Resistance conference at Greenwich University.
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19th-20th Feb 2014 : The Joy of Stitch workshop, as part of the Beyond the Toolkit conference at Falmouth university.
It's Nice to Make goody bags for The Joy of Stitch
