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Construction begins on Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø MakeSpace

6 September 2012

Construction has begun on Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø MakeSpace - an accessible workshop for all staff, students and alumni.

MakeSpace

The new facility will form part of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Making - a multi-disciplinary research club which aims to raise the profile of materials and making both in academia and the world at large.

Located in the former service bay on Malet Place, MakeSpace will contain machine and hand tools, an oven, a kiln and sewing machines, as well as housing the Institute's Materials Library. The library contains a collection of hundreds of different materials ranging from the lightest solid on Earth to a metal that can remember its original shape.

The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Making will be based within the Engineering Faculty. Professor Anthony Finkelstein, Dean of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Engineering, said: "The MakeSpace is a place for the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø community to work on projects, solve problems, reconnect with a love of working with their hands, and for serendipitous discovery through the process of making."

The MakeSpace is scheduled to open in January 2013, in the meantime the Institute of Making are running a series of outdoor events for anyone looking to get involved.

Image: How The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Making will look


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