Fig. 1: VARI’s Project meeting, Encounters on the Shop Floor: Embodiment and the Knowledge of the Maker, Photo: Marta Ajmar. Fig. 2: Dr Marta Ajmar, Photo: Marta Ajmar. Dr Marta Ajmar is Deputy Director of the V&A Research Institute (VARI). She co-leads the five-year collaborative research project Encounters on the Shop Floor: Embodiment and the Knowledge of the Maker in which practitioners in the arts, performance, the humanities, science and social sciences, museum professi