Built In-Kind is an arts, design and fabrication workshop who specialises in custom furniture and joinery commissions, timber and mixed media sculpture, and the design and delivery of educational building and arts programs for women and diverse communities.
Through classes which teach design, tool use and construction skills, we aim to build a community empowered to have greater agency in their built environments, and create a culture of self-sufficiency, resilience and creative expression.
Built In-Kind is a synthesis of architectural design, workshop and fabrication education, material recovery, and community development. Hannah partners with various government and non-government organisations to host tool and timber fabrication and sculptural classes - empowering diverse community, particularly women in the creative/fabrication fields.
Whether you would like to commission a custom piece of furniture, are a social service provider wishing to design engagement programs for your clients, or a creative individual who would like to learn to build more and develop your skills – Built In-Kind is excited to work with you and learn and create together!
OUR INTENTION
Our intention is to decentralise the skills, tools, spaces and systems of knowledge that shape our built environments. We are committed to building communities that are empowered, resilient and connected through shared learning, free creative expression and collective making.
Our intention is to decentralise the skills, tools, spaces and systems of knowledge that shape our built environments. We are committed to building communities that are empowered, resilient and connected through shared learning, free creative expression and collective making.
Participation and inclusion sit at the centre of our practice. Through a model of socially engaged sculpture (and other construction projects) grounded in craftsmanship, care and collaboration, we create opportunities for communities to develop practical skills, confidence and creative agency.
Participation and inclusion sit at the centre of our practice. Through a model of socially engaged sculpture (and other construction projects) grounded in craftsmanship, care and collaboration, we create opportunities for communities to develop practical skills, confidence and creative agency.
We recognise that many communities experiencing marginalisation have limited access to design, construction and tool-based learning, and even fewer opportunities for artistic expression. Built in Kind exists to help address these inequities by creating accessible pathways into making.
We recognise that many communities experiencing marginalisation have limited access to design, construction and tool-based learning, and even fewer opportunities for artistic expression. Built in-Kind exists to help address these inequities by creating accessible pathways into making.
We do this by creating safe, intentional workshop environments that welcome people from diverse backgrounds into spaces that have not always felt accessible or representative.
We do this by creating safe, intentional workshop environments that welcome people from diverse backgrounds into spaces that have not always felt accessible or representative.
We are also committed to teaching future teachers. We believe that representation matters — that you have to see it to be it. By supporting participants to become facilitators and leaders, we aim to ensure that the people teaching our workshops reflect the communities we seek to empower, creating lasting and self-sustaining cycles of knowledge sharing.
We are also committed to teaching future teachers. We believe that representation matters — that you have to see it to be it. By supporting participants to become facilitators and leaders, we aim to ensure that the people teaching our workshops reflect the communities we seek to empower, creating lasting and self-sustaining cycles of knowledge sharing.
Who IS BEHIND
BUILT IN-KIND?
Who IS BEHIND BUILT IN-KIND?
Hannah Cheetham
Director / Founder
Built In-Kind
Working on Awabakal Land, Hannah Cheetham is a multidisciplinary artist, furniture maker and escaped architect born in rural NSW.
Working across sculpture, timber fabrication, spatial design and community-engaged practice, she understands making as a form of cultural care. She believes creativity is not a luxury but a civic resource — one that equips people and communities to respond to social and environmental change with greater confidence, connection and agency. Her practice expands the possibilities of sculpture, treating artworks not only as objects, but as shared processes that cultivate participation, belonging and resilience.
Drawing on her background in architecture, construction and collaborative design, Hannah creates welcoming free or low cost opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds to develop practical skills, creative confidence and meaningful connections through collective making. She founded Built In-Kind in 2019 reimagining the industrial workshop as an inclusive environment where people can build capability, exercise creativity and discover their capacity to shape the world around them.
Hannah Cheetham
Director / Founder
Built In-Kind
Working on Awabakal Land, Hannah Cheetham is a multidisciplinary artist, furniture maker and escaped architect born in rural NSW.
Working across sculpture, timber fabrication, spatial design and community-engaged practice, she understands making as a form of cultural care. She believes creativity is not a luxury but a civic resource—one that equips people and communities to respond to social and environmental change with greater confidence, connection and agency. Her practice expands the possibilities of sculpture, treating artworks not only as objects, but as shared processes that cultivate participation, belonging and resilience.
Drawing on her background in architecture, construction and collaborative design, Hannah creates welcoming free or low cost opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds to develop practical skills, creative confidence and meaningful connections through collective making. She founded Built In-Kind in 2019 reimagining the industrial workshop as an inclusive environment where people can build capability, exercise creativity and discover their capacity to shape the world around them.