Intelligent Hands

Intelligent Hands: Why making is a skill for life, written by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan and published by Quickthorn books.

Intelligent Hands is a rallying call for practical, creative education, why we don’t value it and what are the benefits.
Why is it that we value work we do with our heads more highly than work we do with our hands? What if we valued the stone mason as much as the marketing director, the carpenter as much as the CEO? What if becoming an apprentice was as celebrated as going to university?
Creative education is in decline and the ripples are being felt in wider society – disruptive behaviour in school and a deficit of attention have reached unprecedented levels. As we hurtle into the fourth industrial revolution, we risk losing the craft skills that make humans unique. With a foreword by Jay Blades MBE and the first-hand stories of 15 people who have found their livelihoods through their hands, this timely book asks what got us to this place and – more importantly – how can we change it.

Includes a section on wellbeing and indepth interviews with Sarah Corbett of Craftivist Collective, Betsy Greer and Betsan Corkhill of Stitchlinks.