Teoh Jia Chern | Wood | Klang Valley, Malaysia

You want to know what I do. I make.

I want to know “what does making do?” What novel relationships can we generate through making differently.

Making can be thought of as an arrangement of material. Well, humans are material too. There are good arrangements that bring good relations and bad arrangements that bring bad relations.

It is clear that our methods of production — let’s say in iPhones, t-shirts, and even consultant slide decks — often do not produce good relations; sometimes in the interpersonal sense between colleagues or with bosses, but importantly also in the economic sense. The fruits of labour are not fairly distributed.

All this is to say: Friends Craft Coop is a project that asks what if we arranged how we make things and how we make humans differently?