Sensing urban manufacturing: from conspicuous to sensible production

Ottavia Cima
Ewa Wasilewska

This paper explores the multisensory dimension of urban manufacturing to interrogate the spatial possibilities for production in a small town in Switzerland. Together with a group of graduate students, we apply sensory methods to explore how production shapes urban sensescapes and how these sensescapes affect our relation to production.

Beyond Business as Usual: A 21st Century Culture of Manufacturing in Australia

Katherine Gibson
Jenny Cameron
Stephen Healy
Joanne McNeill
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This report is based on in-depth research with ten manufacturers. It finds that along with operating dynamic and viable businesses these manufacturers are fostering a culture of just and sustainable manufacturing that is helping to tackle the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century.

Economic Geography, Manufacturing and Ethical Action in the Anthropocene: A Rejoinder

J.K. Gibson Graham
Jenny Cameron
Stephen Healy
Joanne McNeill

We are thrilled by Vicky Lawson’s deeply appreciative response to the Roepke Lecture and the written article. In her response, Vicky does more than we could ask for by inviting economic geographers to think with us about ways of reworking manufacturing (and other economic activities) that center on care for the well-being of people and of the planet. Vicky goes to the heart of our project by highlighting the importance we place on looking for the ethical openings that arise in the current context of climate change and growing socioeconomic inequality.