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My work this year proposes a project-based ecological craft path for KS3 that focuses on a chair which challenges the traditional curriculum hierarchy and promotes climate education by positioning material literacy (developed through place-based making practices such as coppicing + ‘urban foraging’) as essential knowledge for all students, not just haphazard or vocational training for some. Christmas trees are (k)not a woodworking ‘go-to’. They are a pain to work with, resinous, knotty and just generally difficult. They are considered waste wood. This table/stool is a question: how can making help us to begin to experience the horizontal relationships between Nature and materials, makers and ‘things’?