What Next?
Having established the basic structure of Kiwi Made, Wendy plans to vary it from year to year depending on what she feels like tackling or what opportunities arise. She comments that one of the problems is that there are almost too many things they could do now with making fabric, and that she consciously trimmed it back in 2006 to prevent it getting too diverse and to keep it manageable.
Other plans Wendy has include upskilling, which she also finds a pleasure activity. This might include finding relevant workshops and events where the people who attend are tremendous resource people and mentors. Often these events are not industry based but organised by crafts people so there are no rules; they might take one idea and try it out in other mediums.
Other plans are to challenge the more able Year 12/13 students in a different way so that they are concentrating more in a product/process development manner.
