Identifying the attitudes, knowledge and skills for developing and running a sustainable creative micro-enterprise, including:

• the acquisition of making/production skills

• business skills and acumen

• personal capacities

• decision making around self-marketing

Analysing the spatial and temporal negotiations necessary to run an online creative micro-enterprise, including the ways in which divisions of labour are gendered

Examining how the contemporary creative economy contributes to a growing ethics based micro-economic consumer and producer relationships that privileges small scale production, environmentally sustainable making practices and the idea of buying direct from the producer.

Luckman, Susan 2015, Craft and the Creative Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, p. 55.

………… the panel discussion will consider

• attitudes and trends in the marketplace

• knowledge and skills for developing and running a sustainable creative micro-enterprise

• the acquisition of making and production skills

• business skills and acumen

• personal attributes and capacities

• decision making around self-marketing

Luckman, Susan 2015, Craft and the Creative Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, p. 55.