Gareth Owen Lloyd

I am a director of Other Today a design studio challenging how and where we make things. We create projects that enable people to invent tools, share knowledge, re-code objects, craft materials and create systems to challenge the status quo. We are...

OTHER TODAY

Distributed Design is a project funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe fund, that fosters the role of emerging Makers and Designers as part of this new digitised world. Other Today are programming a series of sprints expanding the...

Distributed Design

I was Head of Maker Projects at Machines Room Fab Lab for 5 years.
www.machinesroom.org
MACHINES ROOM was the first FabLab to open in London. Founded in early 2014 and situated in the heart of the Maker Mile (a thriving hub of art, design and...

Machines Room Fab Lab

MoreUtopia! is a collective exploring the relevance of utopian thinking today. (Jasmine Johnson, Gareth Owen Lloyd, Kristin Luke, Rachel Pimm, Alice May Williams), we are sunk, we are sunk, we are finished, 2013/2019, CMYK Print on Flag Fabric, 132 x...

MoreUtopia!

As chief maker at Little Inventors, I sometimes get to turn children’s inventions ideas into real objects. This is the Sound Collector
and this is the Worry Shredder

Little Inventors

In 2018 I was lucky enough to spend my summer as Head of Making at Fixcamp. FixCamp is a design and engineering activity camp for the problem-solvers of tomorrow.For 15 days in 2018 the engineers, designers and thinkers of tomorrow tackled big issues...

Fixcamp

I have written a piece for Garage Magazine titled An Art History of the Future. After collecting artworks found in science fiction I wrote an essay about them and Peter Crnokrak created a visualisation from the data. I worked with Sam Roe to create...

Garage Magazine publication

Designed for Britsish Council’s Maker Library visitors, the cards offer first timers and experienced makers a playful way to start a new project. The deck was designed jointly by London Maker Librarian Gareth Owen Lloyd and South African artist...

Maker Cards

A New Normal, Machines Room’s exhibition for London Design Festival 2017, asked the question ‘Who is making products for a world beyond mass-production?’ Each exhibit invited the visitor to actively participate in the manufacturing process, such as...

ANDOR Gallery
Another Proposal
MoreUtopia!
2nd October - 22nd October 2016
Exhibition opening: Sunday 2nd October 2016, 4 - 7pm
In 1516 British diplomat Thomas More wrote to his friend about an island with an extraordinary society. Towards the end of...

MoreUtopia! Exhibition

I have been working with the British Council since 2014 on the Maker Library Network. The project enthusiastically promotes making as a cultural practice around the world. In the 3 years I was privileged to meet and work with inspirational makers...

British Council Maker Library Network

14.30 - 15.30
Another Proposal, short film (28 minutes)
MoreUtopia!
As explained by Thomas More in the opening poem of his book, Utopia is a made-up Greek pun of both ‘no place’ (OU-topos) and ‘good place’ (EU-topos). After the Brexit vote, the...

MoreUtopia! Film Another Proposal

Culturo-Futuro! Beyond the Boundaries of Imagination.
European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016.
Part of the City of the Future / Wrocław Laboratory programme.
Part 2. FORECASTS FOR THE FUTURE – presentations and discussion of theorists and...

City of the Future Wrocław

Contributed to this book Fab City: The Mass Distribution of (almost) Everything which collects a series of essays from the Fab City collective, centred on the themes and challenges of Fab City. In the publication Nat and Gareth join others in calling...

FabCity

Project “Tomorrow. Art in the Imaginary Future”6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art26 September — 27 October 2015
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Mira pr-t, 123b
Moscow City Department of Culture
Manege Association
Special section of the 6th Moscow...

Moscow Biennale