Our research workshops were designed to bring together researchers around UCL from multiple disciplines working on topics to do with materials and making to see where common research interests might lie.
These workshops gathered together a range of speakers on a theme to give an idea of the breadth of research going on at UCL and to encourage new research projects, with funding to support these incipient collaborations.
This series is also part of an ongoing project exploring interdisciplinary interactions. Starting from the observation that discussions stimulated by objects, materials and the making process have the ability to encourage conversations across disciplinary boundaries in a way that a purely verbal conversation cannot, we are exploring how different combinations of presentations, demonstrations, material explorations, discussions and making tasks contribute to a successful workshop.
Research workshops, discussions and forums at the Institute of Making have included:
Materials at the Centre
Materials Library Meets Art History
3D Manufacturing: Promises, Pitfalls and Potential
UCLoo Makeathon
Science and Technology Studies 'Ad Hoc' Reading Group in the Materials Library
Making Repairs: Mending, Renovating, Regulating, Bodging and Tinkering
Materials Library Meets Digital Humanities