A&J is bringing digital manufacturing to the high street, meaning anybody and everybody is able to play a more active role in shaping where they live and work.
Assemble & Join is a community engagement tool used to bring people together to create physical objects for the public realm. Occupying on-site spaces, the project aims to bring people together, using co-design techniques, and giving people access to equipment and activities that they may not otherwise have.
The workshops are centred around utilising a CNC wood router and hand tools, and for participants to design collectively along themes for each place. Designs are then drawn up and cut on the CNC router, using plywood, before being constructed by the workshop participants to be installed in the public realm.
A&J has been utilised as an engagement tool across many of HTA’s projects, with residencies as part of estate regeneration and as a creative way of meeting and talking to communities.
