Will Shannon and Turner Prize 2015 nominees Assemble’s Homework will set up a concrete casting factory in the backyard of a newly refurbished house in Toxteth, Liverpool, turning construction waste into mantelpieces to be installed in refurbished houses.

Linda Brothwell will restore missing letters in iconic building signs in Liverpool with a new handcrafted alphabet that combines traditional English and Polish Wycinanki designs for her project Acts of Care: The Lost Letters of Liverpool.

Rachel Rayns’ project Neurotic Machines, developed with the Raspberry Pi Foundation will show us how an ‘Internet of Things’ machine – a Raspberry Pi greenhouse - can help us take care of our gardens.

The hacker and entrepreneur community DoES Liverpool will set up a production line of 3D printers at FACT for their project Desktop Prosthetics, supplying the components for prosthetic hands for local people with real needs, and invite visitors to get involved in testing and building the prosthetics.

The wide range of projects that fit under the Build Your Own umbrella show that the nature of craft and DIY has changed drastically. The ability to make clothes, furniture and other household goods used to be absolutely necessary to provide for the family, but nowadays we are just as likely to create a website as to knit a sweater. New times call for new skills - but the old ones have an important role too. This exhibition will explore what the democratisation of digital tools really means, whom the emergence of new technologies will affect, and how traditional craft skills can connect with new digital tools.