Katarina Brieditis is a designer and craftswoman with experience of collaborating between industry and small-scale projects. Much of her work is developed through practical experiments with the material itself, where old craft techniques meet contemporary expression in rhythm, scale or composition. She has a deep and sincere love of colours, materials and all kinds of techniques. One example of collaboration is her and Katarina Evans' Re Rag Rug project. It started as a design project where the two designers developed 12 rugs over 12 months using 12 different techniques from recycled and waste materials, without using a loom.  www.reragrug.blogspot.se Katarina shares her top four tips for a successful collaboration. They are particularly applicable to collaborations between independent creators who want to run a project together using the organic process method: 1. Write lists Wish list/ black list: start with a wish list where all visions are written down. Perhaps a list of things you want to avoid or don't want might also be interesting. Manifesto/goal statement: to keep you focused and easily reminded during the work and to remember what the common purpose of the cooperation is. Also necessary for explaining to others, seeking funding, exhibition spaces, media contacts, etc. Agenda/to-do list with who will do what, ongoing throughout the work. Facilitates the division of roles and responsibilities and ensures that things actually get done and have reconciliations when this is checked off. 2. Eye to eye If you are not in the same geographical location during the work, make sure you still see each other whenever possible instead of just email contact. Skype instead of phone sometimes. 3. 1+1=3 Be open to the phenomenon that often occurs in collaborations, when one plus one does not necessarily equal two, but something completely different that no one could have come up with on their own. 4. Open to whim Don't overbook the schedule in planning, but leave gaps for whims, joint workshops or unforeseen events that open doors that can't be foreseen. Katarina Brieditis held an inspirational reading at our SHARE activity creative eXchange.