Projects / Workshops

   + Sümer Space
   + InterWoven Practices  
   + Steambending Workshops 
   + Çekmece Community Centre


Publications 

    + Çekmece Community Centre Guide
    + Sümer Space Guide


Exhibitions

   + InterWoven Practices Exhibition




About — 

Critical Craft is a Scotland-based organisation working to promote a more caring practice of architecture in a multi-scalar manner. Having emerged as an experimental research practice, the organisation now hopes to expand on its roots in community-building and knowledge sharing practices through making, while intra-acting with materials in sensitive and considered ways. 

Formalised as a C.I.C in 2025, the organisation places practices of repair and maintenance with equal standing as making and designing, recognising the processes of design as inexorably interwoven with material understanding and making technologies. Critical Craft organises and runs workshops while also contributing to research practice. In 2023, Critical Craft co-organised a workshop between İstanbul and Kahramanmaraş that explored textile waste, re-use, and collaborative weaving practices. This was then capsualised through an exhibition under the same name. The organisation has also worked on several projects in the post-disaster context of southern Turkiye, with organisations such as Hatay Earthquake Solidarity, All Hands and Hearts, ASF-UK and Herkes icin Mimarlik. This included the construction of 3 community spaces and publication of related creative commons licensed materials.


Sümer Space 

2023



Completed as part of Herkes İçin Mımarlık (Architecture for All) Sümer Space was a project designed to create shared spaces for the residents of Sümer Neighbourhood, Kahramanmaraş, following the catastrophic earthquakes that hit southern Türkiye on 6 Feb 2023. 

The project was developed following a participatory design process that involved an initial 45 workshop participants (students, academics and others) as well as an additional ~150 forum attendees, who shared their thoughts, inputs and ideas for the project.