Chelsea Jam: CCW Digital MakerSpace day | May 13th 2015 | Chelsea College of the arts

Would you like to learn more about digital making, MakerSpaces & the maker movement ? Please come and join us for this digital making community building event (open to the public).

Meet specialist makers, learn about digital making & MakerSpaces at CCW MakerSpace day: 'Chelsea Jam' aims to bring together staff, students and MakerSpaces from across London and the UK to share perspectives on digital making within the arts with an aim of establishing a new 'arts digital making community'.

“I go to whichever MakerSpace has what I need for my practice, tools & expertise, but most of all a MakerSpace has a community, a peer network of digital makers" Arts students on why they go to MakerSpaces

Please come and join us and encourage others along for:

CCW Digital MakerSpace Day: Chelsea Jam on 13th May in the Banquetting Hall at Chelsea College. 

The event is open to all staff and students and are encouraged to drop-in anytime between 11am - 4pm (FabLab presentation start at 1pm).

More event details: here

Book your free place here: http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/5/13/Digital-MakerSpace-day-Chelsea-Jam/

When: Weds 13th May 11 to 4 drop in anytime throughout the day

Where: The event will be held at the Banqueting Hall at Chelsea College of Arts, London.

Book your free place here: Via Eventbrite

Please let us know asap if you would like to attend or get involved and how you'd like to be involved e.g workshops, industry connections, demos, support, talks, help planning etc and please pass this on to other staff you know would be interested. Please contact Chris Follows c.follows@arts.ac.uk or tweet @CCWPostDigital

CCW has a strong making tradition and provides excellent making workshops, studios, resources and specialist staff. We are currently exploring the concept of MakerSpace and currently developing an informal cross disciplinary community exploring and supporting emergent digital making practice through safe-fail experimentation with new & old materials and technologies. 

It'll be a great opportunity to community build & build networks.

More details will be posted here on the CCW MakerSpace group pages.

What is a MakerSpace? 

MakerSpace provides an informal and cross disciplinary place and community for exploring and supporting emergent practice through safe-fail experimentation with new & old materials and technologies. A MakeSpace community requires a rich variety of expertise, peer support, knowledge sharing, specialist equipment, tools and support.

MakerSpace Examples

The UCL MakeSpace ‘The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world’ its a great example of a large size Makerspace, but is dedicated resource for UCL student use, the space provides a little bit of everything to support making experimentation all close to hand with specialist support. Also see: Technology Will Save Us - Machines Room - South London Makerspace and London HackSpace.