Makers' Guild 5: Dos and Don'ts for Maker Spaces

Submitted by rachelcoldicutt
on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 21:19

The Sackler Centre at the V&A at 7pm, Friday 4 May. To book tickets call the V&A Box Office on 020 7942 2211. 

Tool Wall at Nottingham Hackspace

image credit: Nottinghack

We'll be joined by five pioneers who have created different kinds of Maker Spaces in the UK, finishing with a discussion about what a Makers' Guild space could look like. Come and hear from Technology Will Save Us, Cambridge Makespace, DoES Liverpool and Makerhood. Each of our speakers will be offering 5 Dos and Don'ts for setting up a making space - come along and join in the debate! 

Bethany Koby and Daniel Hirschmann, Technology Will Save Us
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Making Sound at V&A review

Submitted by fiddian
on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 18:24

Our most recent event was 'Making sound' at the V&A, where we gained an insight into the explorations of makers in the production of instruments and forms of sound.

 
Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. Nick talked about Monome and Monomatic, an exploration of interfaces and ‘physical works that investigate rich and sonorous musical traditions’ such as campanology.
 
First he gave us a history of technology and sound with an emphasis on building tools for sound as well as making music; from Victoriana through RCA's 1955 room-sized synth
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Makers' Guild 4: Making Sounds at the V&A

Submitted by rachelcoldicutt
on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 20:51

April 13th: Makers’ Guild - Making sound


Sackler Centre at the V&A
7pm to 8.30pm

Reserve your free ticket


Our next event is Making sound at the V&A where we gain an insight into the explorations of makers in the production of sound. Join us for an interactive and most euphonious event, with time for networking and discussion.

Andy Huntington is an interaction designer and artist working with software and hardware; prototyping and development. He creates playful interactive products and experiences for galleries, museums and studios.

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Makers' Guild Talks 3: The Economic and Social Value of Making

Submitted by rachelcoldicutt
on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 16:16

Our next event is on March 2nd 2012 at the V&A  where the topic is The Economic and Social Value of Making.

BOOK YOUR TICKET NOW (FREE)

We've got a really exciting line-up of speakers to talk about what making means now, discussing the economic challenges and opportunities, the policy framework and the future(s) of craft and manufacturing.
 

19h00: Start of event and introduction by Fiddian Warman

19h10: Rosy Greenlees, Executive Director of the Crafts Council

Rosy Greenlees, Executive Director of the Crafts Council will outline the findings of recent Crafts Council research on the

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Prototyping: Failing Deliberately

Submitted by rachelcoldicutt
on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 14:28

Guest post by Matthew Venn, a full-time inventor and maker. As well as making cool stuff like the polargraph energy monitor, maze puzzle box and snowflake simulator, he is a great science communicator, designing and delivering science workshops to thousands of children worldwide. https://twitter.com/matthewvenn

While I was developing the electronics for my energy drawing robot, I ran into a weird problem. On the lab bench the electronics and the motors were working fine – but every now and then at home the robot would lose its place and start drawing off the page.

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3D Printing Now, with One Eye on What’s to Come

Submitted by fiddian
on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 16:32

Our third guest blog post the second from Rachel Park on where 3d printing is going in the near future...

Accessible 3D printers — systems that broke the £2000 price barrier — first emerged in 2009. The RapMan 3D printer kit* was the first commercial product to evolve from the RepRap project, which was conceived by Adrian Bowyer at Bath University. RepRap is an open source project aimed at making 3D printing available to anyone and based on the premise that 3d printers can replicate anything, including themselves.

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The People's Print

Submitted by rachelcoldicutt
on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 15:56

In the first of our guest blog posts, The People's Print outline their unique co-creation methodology. 

The People’s Print, jointly run by Melanie Bowles and Dr Emma Neuberg, is a pioneering design enterprise that aims to create and enable communities of people all over the world with a passion for designing and creating their own textiles.

The People’s Print specialise in promoting and publishing new making concepts for textiles, combining traditional and digital technologies, open source, co-design, centralised print bureaux and participatory design.

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Making Textiles and more upcoming events....

Submitted by fiddian
on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 10:32

The next five Makers' Guild events will be at the V&A Sackler Centre, starting on 3 February 2012 with Making Textiles.  At this free event we'll hear four inspiring practitioners talk the ways they have combined technology with textiles, and discuss the impact of making culture on traditional processes.

Speakers: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and Alexandra Järup on Curious Scarves; Elena Corchero, speaking about Lost Values; and Jennifer Ballie, talking about making and co-design in textiles and relationships with digital culture.

6.15pm to 8.30 pm, 3 February 2012, at the V&A Sackler

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Our 2nd event Makers' Money - The business of making

Submitted by fiddian
on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 10:08

Rachel Storified our second event at the Crafts Council....

Makers' Guild panel discussion about the business of making

Jane ní Dhulchaointigh, inventor of Sugru
 
Sugru started as a random material experiment - Jane studied Sculpture and Product Design at the RCA and became interested in materials - mixed bathroom sealant with waste wood powder - exploring aesthetics and materials. Looking for ways the material could be used. 
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Makers' Guild - makers' money kicks off with @projectsugru talking how she got sugru off the ground http://t.co/iGTqzW1L
 
Makers' Guild
22 hours ago
 
 
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Storification of our Launch Lunch

Submitted by fiddian
on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 07:31

Rachel created this great record of the event....

Jon Kingsbury from NESTA kicking off the Makers' Guild event

talking about creativity, innovation and how they can help to develop science, technology, solve social problems

@fiddian up

- asking what Makers' Guild can do for you, and what you can do for it! 

Describes how the launch event is intended to help shape the guild, the start of a journey 

hashtag is #makersguild follow us @makersguild 

 

Martin Stevens @martinstevensa1



- There are about 7million people in the world who aren't 3D CAD enabled - how can we make that happen and
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