Blog:

New absorbent hygiene products research now underway!

02-11-23

New absorbent hygiene products research now underway!

We are excited to announce the launch of our new research project about designing sustainable systems for absorbent hygiene products. More

Materials Library Featured in Book and Award-Winning Film

29-6-23

Materials Library Featured in Book and Award-Winning Film

The Materials Library's work on Sensory Prosthetics features in a brand new book that’s being launched today, as well as an award-winning film that has featured in Nowness. More

We’re Hiring: Communications Manager & Events Manager Roles

16-12-23

We’re Hiring: Communications Manager & Events Manager Roles

As the Institute of Making continues to expand into a second space we are adding two roles to our growing team. Could you be our new Communications Manager or Events Manager? More

Paid Internships at the Institute of Making

05-12-23

Paid Internships at the Institute of Making

Fancy joining our team at the Institute of Making as an Intern? Applications are now open for UCL students and staff. More

Directions to Institute of Making Stratford

01-11-23

Directions to Institute of Making Stratford

Directions to UCL Marshgate Building from Stratford Station and suggestions for using google maps and CityMapper More

We’re Hiring Experienced Technicians!

18-10-23

We’re Hiring Experienced Technicians!

Fancy joining our team at the Institute of Making as a Technician? More

Arts, Heritage and Materials Science Work Placement

03-3-23

Arts, Heritage and Materials Science Work Placement

The Arts, Heritage and Materials Science Work Placement was an ambitious new programme for 15–18 year old East Londoners from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds which took place during the summer. We invited 10 young Londoners to learn about the Institute of Making through making and then co-design a hands-on activity at the open public day at UCL. More

Paid Internships at the Institute of Making

19-12-22

Paid Internships at the Institute of Making

Fancy joining our team at the Institute of Making as an Intern? Applications are now open for UCL students and staff. More

We’re Hiring!

24-11-22

We’re Hiring!

Fancy joining our team at the Institute of Making as a Technician? More

Organising the UCL Repair Café: hope, confidence and friendship

24-2-22

Organising the UCL Repair Café: hope, confidence and friendship

The following blog shares the reflections of some of the organisers and volunteers of the UCL Repair Cafe on February 2022, and shares lessons learnt for those who might want to set up or take part in their own repair café. On a windy, gazabo wobbling Thursday, a small group of dedicated volunteers gathered, aiming to grow, re-purpose and repair. More

Welcome back members! Here’s how to visit the workshop…

14-9-21

Welcome back members! Here’s how to visit the workshop…

Plan your visit: information and guidance for members returning to our workshop. More

The Atelier: A home for both traditional crafts and cutting-edge technologies.

07-9-21

The Atelier: A home for both traditional crafts and cutting-edge technologies.

The final in our guest-blog series on pattern cutting, by Fareeha Masood. In this last post, we will look at the innovation different disciplines can bring to pattern cutting in this experimental space. More

Institute of Making: Eighth Year Report

28-7-21

Institute of Making: Eighth Year Report

Our yearly report shines a light on the projects, people, materials and making processes that were central to the Institute of Making in the past twelve months and summarises key activities of our eighth year of operation at UCL. More

My love of clothes and the materials that surround us

29-6-21

My love of clothes and the materials that surround us

Clothing represents perhaps our most complex and personal experience with materials. Guess blogger and UCL student Fareeha talks fabrics and her journey of experiencing them in a summer series on clothing and pattern cutting. More

Dare to Repair

26-4-21

Dare to Repair

This week, Institute of Making Director Mark Miodownik presents the first episode of a new BBC Radio 4 series: Dare to Repair (11:00, 27 April 2021). More

Materials Love Letters From You

17-3-21

Materials Love Letters From You

Following on from our Valentines-themed celebration of materials, we wanted to share a selection of the love letters sent by you, our wonderful community of materials experts and enthusiasts. More

Animate Materials - Call to action

25-2-21

Animate Materials - Call to action

Institute of Making Director, Mark Miodownik, alongside colleagues at the Royal Society, have published a new report and call to action on Animate Materials. More

Materials Love Letters

11-2-21

Materials Love Letters

Join us to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Institute of Making style: by geeking out about materials in a series of love letters to alluring volcanic rocks, intense ceramic glazes, sticky gels, bounteous pencils, sulphurous vegetables and lustrous fibres, written by some of our wonderful team. More

New plastics research project now underway!

11-1-21

New plastics research project now underway!

We are delighted to announce the start of a new research project – Compostable Plastics: Unlocking Existing Barriers to Systems Change. More

What’s in our Materials Library stocking?

17-12-20

What’s in our Materials Library stocking?

We’re starting to feel festive here at the Institute of Making, so we’ve dusted off some favourite winter holiday-themed materials for the occasion. Now…what have we got in our Materials Library stocking for you? More

Useful Links

01-8-20

Useful Links

The Institute of Making team is taking a break in August but we have compiled some useful links that might be helpful, if you are wanting to make something specific over the summer. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: ACRYLIC

17-7-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: ACRYLIC

This week we gaze into the hidden depths of ACRYLIC, a material we can thank for pearly dentures, prosthetic eyes and the perspex sneeze screens structuring our post-lockdown shopping experiences. Read on to find out what Cardi B’s glorious nail art and David Hockney’s technicolour scenes of Californian suburbia have in common, and why ‘tickling the ivories’ should really be called ‘tickling the acrylics’. More

Institute of Making: Seventh Year Report

15-7-20

Institute of Making: Seventh Year Report

Our yearly report shines a light on the projects, people, materials and making processes that were central to the Institute of Making in the past twelve months and summarises key activities of our seventh year of operation at UCL. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: WAX

03-7-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: WAX

This week’s Materials Library blog post gets lyrical about WAX, exploring its far-reaching and global relationship with divinity, art and fashion, examining the ancient roots of your waxed hairdo, probing why you shouldn’t be so hasty to remove your earwax, and delving into why vegans might want to be careful with their lemons. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: SALT

11-6-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: SALT

Scrape the surface of SALT in this week's blog examining our physiological need for simple sodium chloride, its hidden colonial history, and its cultural importance in food preservation, road safety, textile dyeing and soap manufacture. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: CORK

04-6-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: CORK

We’re back with a new Materials Library blog, and it’s a CORK-er. Pop open this cheeky little number to explore how this buoyant, waxy, natural foam has been supporting sailors, architects, wine lovers, scientists and medics for millenia. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: OVER TO YOU

20-5-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: OVER TO YOU

This week we have put together a medley of the wonderful materials musings that you’ve shared with us over the last 5 weeks. It’s been wonderful to get a sneak peek into the substances you’ve been sharing lockdown with, and the new appreciation you’ve gained from meditating on your household matter. Now over to you! More

Materials Up Close & Personal: RUBBERS

14-5-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: RUBBERS

Relax into RUBBERS, our latest ‘up close and personal’ material encounter. In this ode to erasers we explore the simple piece of stationary that we turn to when we’ve made a mistake, tracing the relationship between rubbers and mouldy bread, volcanic ash, Amazonian forests, and the Roman god Vulcan. More

How to set up an Online Knitting Circle

14-5-20

How to set up an Online Knitting Circle

For all the textile-makers out there: we have put together some event organisation know-how to help you set up your own online knitting or textiles circle. Follow our six-step guide with hints and tips for starting a fun hands-on community. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: TOWELS

07-5-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: TOWELS

All the debate about whether to mask or not to mask in the news has got us thinking about the importance of cloth for cleaning, filtering and wicking moisture, prompting an absorbing look at TOWELS. More

Face Coverings - FAQs

07-5-20

Face Coverings - FAQs

We have drawn up a list of frequently asked questions around the making and wearing of face coverings, the answers to which we hope you will find useful. As we try out more patterns, adapt our masks and learn more, we will update this information. If you have a question that is not addressed, let us know and we will endeavour to add it to the list. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: CARDBOARD

30-4-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: CARDBOARD

Tear into our latest up close and personal encounter with CARDBOARD. Think outside the box about the humble, fibrous material that has inspired architects, aerospace engineers and scientists developing mechanical metamaterials. You won’t be (card)bored! More

Materials Up Close & Personal: BLU-TACK

22-4-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: BLU-TACK

Following on from last week’s tour of tarmac, let’s stick (ha!) with another adhesive substance: that staple of the home office, blu-tack. Known for its powdery blue colour and distinctive adhesive qualities, read on to find out how uses of this mundane material can be anything but. More

Materials Up Close & Personal: TARMAC

16-4-20

Materials Up Close & Personal: TARMAC

Maybe you can see the road from your window, or have been pacing the local pavements recently during your daily constitutional? If so, you might have noticed this sometimes sticky, sometimes oily, sometimes crumbly, hash-brown of a material underfoot. Our new weekly series of Materials Library profiles journeys into the expansive inner lives and backstories of everyday substances that we surround ourselves with, but that we often don’t even notice. More

Materials Up Close & Personal - a New Materials Library Series

15-4-20

Materials Up Close & Personal - a New Materials Library Series

We are excited to announce a new weekly series of Materials Library profiles. At a time when staying at home has made our worlds significantly smaller, join us on a journey into the expansive inner lives and backstories of everyday substances and stuff; the silent and humble materials that we surround ourselves with, but that we often don’t even notice. More

DIY Face Shield

07-4-20

DIY Face Shield

A simple, lightweight, comfortable and easy to clean face shield design and how-to-make guide, for those in need at the domestic scale who have no other options available to them (home carers, supermarket workers, delivery drivers etc.) More

Covid-19: What we are doing at the Institute of Making

26-3-20

Covid-19: What we are doing at the Institute of Making

An update on the Institute of Making during the coronavirus (Covid-19). More

Cancelled until further notice: our TRANSFORMATION event

13-3-20

Cancelled until further notice: our TRANSFORMATION event

Cancelled until further notice: our TRANSFORMATION open day on Saturday 28th March is going to be postponed. More

We’re hiring!

23-1-20

We’re hiring!

Fancy joining our staff team at the Institute of Making? More

Institute of Making: Sixth Year Report

10-7-19

Institute of Making: Sixth Year Report

Our yearly report shines a light on the projects, people, materials and making processes that were central to the Institute of Making in the past twelve months and summarises key activities of our sixth year of operation at UCL. More

Launch of UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub

02-4-19

Launch of UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub

The UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub was launched on the 18th of March and seeks to bring together staff, students, industry, policy-makers, government, waste management, charities and the public to tackle the plastic waste problem. More

A Study in Progress: Sensory Preference in Prosthetics

17-1-19

A Study in Progress: Sensory Preference in Prosthetics

Thanks so much to everyone who has come along so far to one of our sessions in London or Glasgow to talk to us about your sensory preferences and how the materials used in prosthetics impact on your experience of your limbs. We wanted to write a blog post to keep you up to date with the project as it progresses….so here goes! More

Exploring Materials and Sensory Preference in Prosthetic Limbs

03-10-18

Exploring Materials and Sensory Preference in Prosthetic Limbs

Want to be involved in a study exploring how the sensory and aesthetic properties of materials affects experiences of prosthetic limbs? Read on! More

Advancing the potential of manufacturing with 4D printing

13-9-18

Advancing the potential of manufacturing with 4D printing

Dr Anna Ploszajski will continue her research on 4D printing with a new postdoctoral fellowship, supported by a UCL EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. More

10-5-18

Institute of Making: Fifth Year Report

This document shines a spotlight on the projects, people, materials and making processes that were central to our past twelve months and summarises the key activities of our fifth year of operation at UCL. More

Slime at the Institute of Making

16-4-18

Slime at the Institute of Making

On Saturday 24th of March, for one day only, the Institute of Making was transformed into a state-of-the-art slime lab, a Slime Olympics Arena and more activities to explore slime in all its glory. The event proved extremely popular and we have been sent many requests for advice and opinions by slime enthusiasts far and wide. We were excited to have found so many fellow materials lovers and have written a blog post to share an account of the day alongside our slime recipe and some slime links for anyone undertaking their own slime journey. More

Funding for new research on digital technology and materials for prosthetics

06-2-18

Funding for new research on digital technology and materials for prosthetics

We are excited to have been awarded four new research grants for projects on prosthetics.This continues to develop our expertise in material selection and digital manufacturing for prosthetics and orthotics, and builds on our previous work on the Hands of X and Wearable Assistive Materials projects. More

Marvellous Medical Materials: Stainless Steel - Part Two

01-12-17

Marvellous Medical Materials: Stainless Steel - Part Two

In this series of blog posts, Sarah Wilkes (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Institute) gets over-excited about the ways that materials like silicone rubber and silver impact on our health and wellbeing. This post is the second in a two-parter that explores the gradual historical domination of stainless steel in surgical tools and medical implants, its health risks and rewards from the point of view of a variety of actors (including the patient undergoing hip replacement, the airplane passenger and the welder) and its role in infection control in the modern hospital. More

Marvellous Medical Materials: Stainless Steel - Part One

08-11-17

Marvellous Medical Materials: Stainless Steel - Part One

In this series of blog posts, Sarah Wilkes (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Institute) gets over-excited about the ways that materials like silicone rubber and silver impact on our health and wellbeing. This post is one of a two-parter that explores the gradual historical domination of stainless steel in surgical tools and medical implants, its health risks and rewards from the point of view of a variety of actors (including the patient undergoing hip replacement, the airplane passenger and the welder) and its role in infection control in the modern hospital. More

Hands of X @ Cubitts Kings X

20-6-17

Hands of X @ Cubitts Kings X

The Hands of X team are presenting a prototype of their exciting bespoke prosthetics service at Cubitts Kings Cross this Thursday and Friday. More

Institute of Making: Fourth Year Report

12-6-17

Institute of Making: Fourth Year Report

This document shines a spotlight on the projects, people, materials and making processes that were central to our past twelve months and summarises the key activities of our fourth year of operation at UCL. More

Marvellous Medical Material of the Moment: Soap

05-6-17

Marvellous Medical Material of the Moment: Soap

In this series of blog posts Sarah Wilkes, Wellcome Trust research fellow at the Institute, gets over-excited about the ways in which materials like silicone rubber and silver impact on our health and wellbeing. This post takes an in-depth and wide-ranging look at saponaceous substances! More

PhysFeel Round 2: Call for Volunteers

25-11-16

PhysFeel Round 2: Call for Volunteers

Do you want to take part in a 3rd year undergraduate student study exploring how we interpret emotions from objects? More

ODD Summer 2016

11-11-16

ODD Summer 2016

This year the LEGO2NANO and OpenAFM projects joined forces to work on a new initiative - the ODD Summer. This exciting international challenge aims to task students to produce real-world solutions to some of the problems set by the 17 sustainable development goals outlined by the United Nations in September 2015. More

Competition results of the Cutlery Design Challenge

13-9-16

Competition results of the Cutlery Design Challenge

We teamed up with the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, to celebrate their 600th anniversary, and run a competition to design and make a new implement, tool or device for eating. An exhibition will showcase some of the extraordinary, thought-provoking and beautiful things that were submitted. More

Studio Visit to J & FJ Baker Tannery

12-8-16

Studio Visit to J & FJ Baker Tannery

The second visit of my trip away, was to Britain’s last remaining oak bark tannery, J & FJ Baker & Co in Colyton. More

Studio Visit to John Hagger

10-8-16

Studio Visit to John Hagger

This week I took a trip out of London to the picturesque countryside of Devon. My first stop was to see the very talented John Hagger of Tanner Bates, based in Dartington, Totnes. More

LTM Online Course

28-7-16

LTM Online Course

Our new, free, online course will give you an introduction to doing design-led materials research, taught through the real case study of the Light.Touch.Matters project. More

Reflections on LTM
Play

28-7-16

Reflections on LTM

This month marks the end of the Light.Touch.Matters project, and we've been reflecting on the exciting outcomes and achievements of this 4 year project. More

Submission guidelines for: Design and Make a New Implement, Tool or Device for Eating

29-6-16

Submission guidelines for: Design and Make a New Implement, Tool or Device for Eating

The deadline for the challenge is coming around soon so here are a few submission and judging guidelines. The deadline is: 10am, 18th July 2016 More

OpenAFM invites you to “ODD Summer 2016 - two months to save the planet!”

09-6-16

OpenAFM invites you to “ODD Summer 2016 - two months to save the planet!”

An opportunity to participate in a series of events this summer taking place in Geneva, London and China, working on a project to build a low cost open source Atomic Force Microscope for schools (previously known as LEGO2NANO!), enabling young people to explore the world at nano scale. More

The Great Grammatizator

26-5-16

The Great Grammatizator

Our Scrambled Messaging Machine competition has been announced, and Alexandra Bridarolli’s winning idea, The Great Grammatizator is now under way in the Makespace! More

Institute of Making: Third Year Report

10-5-16

Institute of Making: Third Year Report

This document summarises the majority of our activities, undertaken during our third year of operation at UCL. More

Studio Visit to Helen Carnac

21-4-16

Studio Visit to Helen Carnac

By the Thames, opposite Tate & Lyle’s sugar syrup refinery factory (busy unloading goods from a huge shipping vessel), I found Helen Carnac’s enameling studio. She's based at Secondfloor Studios, which is also home to Thames Barrier Print Studio and London Sculpture Workshop. More

Studio Visit to Faye McNulty

04-4-16

Studio Visit to Faye McNulty

For my first meeting of the day I headed down to Bermondsey. Tucked away in a railway arch amongst car repair workshops and what looks like a conservatory company is Printall Studio where print designer Faye McNulty works. The studio is a fully-equipped, open access textile printing studio where members can either pay by the day or sign up for a monthly membership for more frequent access. More

PhysFeel - Call for Volunteers

23-3-16

PhysFeel - Call for Volunteers

Are you interested in helping us with a study that explores the link between emotions and material properties? More

The Challenge: Design and Make a New Implement, Tool or Device for Eating

15-3-16

The Challenge: Design and Make a New Implement, Tool or Device for Eating

The brief is to design and prototype a new implement, tool or device for eating. This might involve rethinking the form, shape or materials of tools we are accustomed to, or encourage new cultural practices surrounding the act of eating. This is your chance to test and prototype ideas, explore materials and get hands-on. More

Come along tomorrow to celebrate our 3rd Birthday

11-3-16

Come along tomorrow to celebrate our 3rd Birthday

Celebrate our 3rd Birthday in style with musical jelly, microwave rainbow cake made by pastry chef Terri of Fraise Sauvage. Every birthday party needs candles, and we have the most spectacular candle ever! Chemistry student Anna Ploszajski will be demonstrating the Rubens' Tube she made: read more about her project on our blog. In our Materials Library learn about the science of chocolate and find out if you are a super-taster! More

Member Profile: Anna Ploszajski

04-2-16

Member Profile: Anna Ploszajski

Anna made a Rubens’ Tube as part of her demonstration kit for the Science Show-Off show at the Bloomsbury Theatre. A Rubens’ Tube is a pipe with holes all along the top and a rubber membrane stretched over one end, which is flled with propane and lit like an elongated gas burner. More

Studio Visit to Geoffrey Fisher

14-12-15

Studio Visit to Geoffrey Fisher

Nestled on the first floor of an outbuilding surrounded by other makers is green woodworker Geoffrey Fisher. After a quick coffee at Geoff’s studio in High Wycombe, he got me straight to work, drilling a hole into the end of a branch in order to make a whistle. Little did I know that the whistle might come in handy later when we took a trip to the nearby Penn Woods. More

Community Building for Design-Led Materials Research

11-12-15

Community Building for Design-Led Materials Research

The Institute of Making are delighted to have awarded EPSRC small grants to five teams for community-building activities that focus on design-led approaches to materials. More

Member Profile: Daniel Black

09-11-15

Member Profile: Daniel Black

Daniel’s expertise is in watchmaking, and he got involved in a major making project supported by our Summer Studentship scheme: to advance understanding of the Antikithera mechanism – an ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine – through physical models. More

LEGO2NANO is now OpenAFM

09-11-15

LEGO2NANO is now OpenAFM

LEGO2NANO’s development project OpenAFM has taken a big leap forward in the last couple of weeks with a newly designed 3D printable structure for the device. More

Next Public Open day: Clay & Ceramics on 24th October

06-10-15

Next Public Open day: Clay & Ceramics on 24th October

Join us for an extravaganza of materials and making around the theme of Clay & Ceramics. More

Member Challenge: Design and Build a Scrambling Message Machine

02-10-15

Member Challenge: Design and Build a Scrambling Message Machine

Submission deadline: 26th February 2016 - 
Making deadline for winning idea: 1st July 2016
 - Eligibility: Any inducted member/member team of the Institute of - Making
 Prize: £600 More

Member profile: Dafne Morgado

11-9-15

Member profile: Dafne Morgado

In the Makespace Dafne has been making force sensors and elongation/bending sensors, which attach to the replica human hands and finger joints she has been making as part of our Wearable Assistive Materials project. More

Festival of Stuff 2015

13-7-15

Festival of Stuff 2015

Our Festival of Stuff may be over for this year but we have been reliving it through an epic amount of photos that were taken. Can you spot yourself in any of them? More

Glass and bees

22-6-15

Glass and bees

This week, glassblower and beekeeper John Cowley came over to advise on our lampworking masterclass setup. More

Festival of Stuff
Play

19-5-15

Festival of Stuff

The Festival of Stuff runs from 23rd June to the 27th June, consisting of four days of bookable masterclasses and culminating in an extravaganza of materials and making on Saturday 27th June. More

Light Touch Materials in the Lab
Play

06-5-15

Light Touch Materials in the Lab

Ever wondered how flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and piezoelectric polymers are made? These films provide a window into the research labs making state-of-the-art flexible and sensing light technologies. More

Light Public Open day

06-5-15

Light Public Open day

Last Saturday we held an extravaganza of materials and making around the theme of light. Visitors explored how reflective things reflect, made their very own electrical circuit, took a photograph without using a camera and much more. More

The Open Workshop Network

03-5-15

The Open Workshop Network

The Open Workshop Network (OWN) is an ongoing research project led by our PhD student, Liz Corbin, into the larger making community of London. More

Dangerous Diaries: Octagon Gallery

30-4-15

Dangerous Diaries: Octagon Gallery

The Institute of Making are collaborating with researchers, makers and materials enthusiasts from around UCL and beyond to put together the latest Octagon Gallery exhibition, looking at the risks and rewards involved in fabrication. More

Institute of Making: Second Year Report

16-4-15

Institute of Making: Second Year Report

This document summarises the majority of our activities, undertaken during our second year of operation at UCL. More

Member Profile: Wiktor Kidziak

10-4-15

Member Profile: Wiktor Kidziak

The first in a series of interviews with our members, Architecture student Wiktor Kidziak talks about what he's been making. More

LEGO2NANO 2015

31-3-15

LEGO2NANO 2015

Are you a UCL student interested in an open science? Would you like to work on an ongoing project to make low-cost scientific tools accessible to kids? LEGO2NANO 2015 is recruiting for participants for this year’s summer school. More

Next public Open day: Metal 7th March

30-1-15

Next public Open day: Metal 7th March

This March we will be celebrating metal in all its diversity. Come along and explore metals that have memory, a jet engine turbine blade made from a single crystal, and the wondrous material life of gold in the Materials Library. More

Making in progress

27-1-15

Making in progress

Our new members' project blog is a window into the world of the MakeSpace. More

Hidden Histories of Things - Mon 26th Jan

12-1-15

Hidden Histories of Things - Mon 26th Jan

Places available on the 'Hidden Histories of Things' research seminar, organised by the Open University's Commodity Histories project and the Institute of Making. Mon 26th Jan, 9.30am - 4.30pm. More

The Great Robot Egg Race

16-12-14

The Great Robot Egg Race

Back in October, during Robots Week, we launched The Great Robot Egg Race. The challenge was to build a moving robot that could pick up an egg and travel a short distance before putting it down in a frying pan, without smashing it! The robot needed to travel over a variety of different terrains/surfaces, straddle a cube, go under a limbo pole, negotiate a sideways slope and navigate a slalom course to finally deliver the fresh, un-smashed egg into the pan. More

Dates for your diaries
Play

08-12-14

Dates for your diaries

The nights are drawing in, it's getting colder and the Christmas festivities are underway. For those who came to the Festival of Stuff earlier this year here is a video to remind you of warmer times: youtube Below are some dates for your diaries of out next open days and next years Festival of Stuff. More

Public Open day: Carbon: 22nd November

18-10-14

Public Open day: Carbon: 22nd November

​This November, in partnership with the Crafts Council, the V&A and the RSA, we will be staging a London-wide extravaganza of materials and making, called Make:Shift:Do. As part of this, we will be hosting a public open day around the theme of Carbon and a selection of specialist masterclasses. This will be our last open day of 2014, so get it in your diaries now! More

LEGO2NANO - Day 1

09-9-14

LEGO2NANO - Day 1

This year's project introduction involved some serious play, serious learning and seriously good food. More

LEGO2NANO Beijing, 2014

06-9-14

LEGO2NANO Beijing, 2014

This week in Beijing China, 12 Institute of Making members and 12 students from Beijing Universities collaborate to build a low-cost open-source Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) using LEGO and hacked electronic equipment, enabling high-school students to explore materials in miniature. More

Luted Crucible Bronze Casting

31-7-14

Luted Crucible Bronze Casting

Last week we were shown the elemental delights of hot metal casting with artist Piers Watson, who taught us an ancient technique called "Luted Crucible Bronze Casting”. More