Studio TIP Circular Free-Play

Event Details

Saturday

11am – 5pm

Sunday

11am – 5pm

Age

All ages

Venue

Coming soon

How to Attend

Drop in

Price

Free

Join Studio TIP for a hands-on creative workshop to play, invent and assemble, using materials sourced from factories locally.

Discover the hidden life of materials in manufacturing, how they feel, and connect and become something new. From Early Years to grown-ups – everyone is invited to get stuck in!

Guided by a Material Library, discover the stories, textures, and qualities of these secondary raw materials, and the factories they come from. Then, dive into intuitive making: assemble your own mini sculptures or abstract creations using only string and wire—no glue, just imagination.

Celebrate reuse, creativity and local manufacturing in this tactile and sensory environment. This is not a structured class – it’s a space for you to dive into your creativity, build, stack, sort and invent. Mess is welcome, no rules apply! 

Free-Play sessions are intended to carve out time in your day to step away from devices, switch off, think with your hands and allow intuition and curiosity to lead your making. No experience needed. Just curiosity.

About Studio TIP

Studio TIP is a creative studio set up by Katie May Boyd and Charlotte Kidger, exploring materiality for circular design. Working with undervalued and secondary raw materials from local communities, institutions and manufacturing industries, we use a playful making approach to create public art, bespoke commissions, hands-on freeplay workshops and research-led projects.

In 2026 Studio TIP are aiming to visit factories across the UK, mapping materials, collecting stories and offcuts along the way. This research project asks what creative interventions we can bring to manufacturing in the UK, to create micro-circular systems, making materials accessible and celebrating the places that usually go unseen.

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