2024-05-17
38 分钟Today we’re live in front of an audience at London Craft Week to explore the world of mindful manufacturing. Mud Talks, set at the Vitsoe shop in London’s Marylebone, brought together Mud Australia’s Shelley Simpson, Vitsoe’s managing director, Mark Adams and David Mellor’s creative director, Corin Mellor, to discuss the intricacies of how to balance enduring design with sustainable manufacturing at scale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to a special edition of Confect Corner.
Today we bring you something a bit different, an episode recorded live in front of an audience as part of this year's London Craft Week, exploring the world of mindful manufacturing at scale.
Mud Talk, set at the Vitso shop in London's Marylebone, brought together Mud Australia's Shelley Simpson, Vitso's managing director, Mark Adams, and designer craftsman for David Meller, Corinne Meller, to discuss the intricacies of how to balance enduring design with sustainable manufacturing at scale.
I'm your host, Sophie Grove, and this is Confect Corner.
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Well, hello, it's great to see you all.
My name's Sophie Grove, I'm editor of Confect magazine.
I'm delighted to be here for this London Craft Week discussion about mindful manufacturing.
And we have a great panel, three amazing individuals who run businesses that are really benchmarks, in my mind, what mindful making can really be.
And I think we want to explore the topic from different angles, really looking at what mindful really means in terms of social responsibility, in terms of the environment, but then also maybe tease out some more existential ideas about the mindfulness of making.
And I'm sure no one's escaped the mindfulness revolution, but there are lots of ideas behind that in terms of mental health, in terms of a state of mind, a philosophy that we could maybe draw on today.
Hello, Shelley, Mark and Corinne.
I wanted to start really with the idea of just the human.
Each one of you has a very different business, but you all share a sense of being a human centric company.
Shelley, for instance, there's a lot of joy in your workshops and there is a sense that you've built your company around the people rather than the other way around.
I wondered if we can start with thinking about that, but also talking about how that works for you in terms of productivity, in terms of actually how effective you are as a business and how that's propelled you forward.
I think definitely the more we do for our team and with our team, the more our team want to do for us.