Turner Prize winners Assemble are inviting the public into their workshop

Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble made their name by regenerating derelict houses in Liverpool; now you can see them in their workshop environment during London Design Festival.

Assemble are staging an immersive cafe with Granby Workshop, the social enterprise that they set up to to train local people to make handmade productions and put money back into the community. It will showcase the making of SPLATWARE, a new line of experimental table products produced by the workshop.

The installation is being launched as part of a collaboration with crowd-funding website Kickstarter. Granby Workshop hopes to raise £40,000 by October to expand their reach and sell their products more widely.

The cafe at the installation will have a food and drinks menu, all served on the new range of ceramics. Visitors can have a meal as well as see the artists at work and meet them.

​Granby Workshop have always used experimental manufacturing processes to create their items, and SPLATWARE is created using a RAM press which uses extreme pressure to force clay into a mould; ceramic oxides stain the clay and form accidental patterns when pressurised, so every outcome is different.

The cafe will be open in The Canopy at King’s Cross designjunction from September 21-24. Support the Kickstarter project here