Zooming In, Branching Out with Joe Hartley Joe Hartley talks with enthusiasm about the idea of specialisms and how an endless desire to learn and teach new processes has led to a career in co-creating spaces and work for a diverse range of contexts.

About the facilitator

Joe Hartley is a designer and artist who has been working in Manchester since 2012. His practice spans a range of scenarios, scales and mediums, including ceramics, furniture, temporary architecture, gardening and photography. What brings these together is an enthusiastic, playful and explorative approach to materials, often used to engage communities through co-creation of work. Joe is a co-founder of Altogether Otherwise, a space that celebrates the restorative joy of doing things for fun. The project forms part of a long-term partnership with the development NOMA, where Joe and collaborators have worked to activate disused buildings, inviting people into the physical process of a changing city.…