Are you curious, creative, and critical? Join us for a semester of transdisciplinary making, experiments, hacking, tinkering, digital fabrication, soft robotics and electronics. This semester course offered at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences provides an intense training in digital fabrication (tools and techniques like laser cutting, 3D printing, new materials, and electronics), and an introduction into tinkering and making-as-research.

In a world where disposable products dominate, it's time to rethink the value of making and the way we make things. With a DIY and open-source approach, this international minor challenges you to think critically about the impact of your creations on the environment and to explore alternative, more sustainable ways of making things. We aim to empower you to become a critical maker and tinkerer. In this minor, the act of making and tinkering is a way to research, discover and push boundaries. 

The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ Makers Lab is your playground this semester. The first half of the minor focusses on experiments and tinkering. We’ll explore the wonderful world of DIY critical making and digital fabrication. This second half of this minor program offers a unique opportunity to apply what you learned while you work in a transdisciplinairy team on a research project. You’ll rediscover the potential of traditional materials and techniques, and you learn how to use them in the context of high-tech crafts and sustainable fabrication. 

Join us in the minor Makers Lab and discover the art of making in the 21st century. Unleash your creativity and make a positive impact on the world!

For more information check your website:

www.minormakerslab.nl

Makerslab is an FDMCI-minor provided by CMD.

At the end of this minor you have developed yourself as transdisciplinairy tinkerer. You bring valuable hands-on knowledge and maker skills to any professional environment: you can work with conceptual frameworks to initiate question-driven design processes with an awareness of the context. This allows you to develop an ethical contemporary maker practice and share your expertise in a way that allows others to build on and learn from your work. 

Transdisciplinairy Learning

The student brings in their own expertise, values the expertise of other students, finds synergy with different disciplines to create and tinker purposeful ideas and concepts.

Digital Crafts and Making

The student understands both material and technology. Knows how to manipulate, tinker and experiment with it. The student is aware of their responsibility and the impact of making. Actively builds upon what is already out there and gives back by sharing their insights with the (maker) community.

You meet the entrance requirements from your own study before you can follow a minor (see the Teaching and Examination Regulations for your study).  For CMD students this means that you have completed the Foundation year and have a minimum of 40 EC points from the main phase of your minor.

The teaching and examination regulations of the Bachelor programme apply. 

This minor welcomes students with an open, curious and analytical attitude, coming from a fashion, design, art, ICT or engineering background, who have demonstrable experience with 2 or more of the following at intermediate level: 3D modelling, electronics, 2D design (vector drawing), programming skills, garment construction, moulding & casting, mechanical engineering/machine building. As the entire program is taught in English, participants are required to speak English well and are able to read and understand English texts. 

Makers Lab: Making as Research uses a mix of reading materials that will be communicated at the start of the program.

Expect 4 days of study (12-16hrs contact time with teachers, and 16-20 hrs of self-study or group work). The timetable will be announced two weeks before the start of the minor via rooster.hva.nl.

30 ECTS 

Assessment form: portfolio and expo

Throughout the minor, you work on assignments that allow you to fill your portfolio to demonstrate your progress on the learning outcomes and receive feedback and feed forward from both peers and tutors. The learning outcomes are assessed through a mid-term portfolio (formative) and a final portfolio + expo (summative). 

We foster a safe, inclusive, supportive, and positive learning climate where students oversee their own personal learning trajectory and growth.

Resit: all assignment(s) can be resubmitted up to week 22 (early July)

If a student fails to successfully complete the minor in the period in which she took the minor it is possible to finalize the minor in a following period in which the minor is given.

If a minor is no longer offered or in case the minor is rewritten, the degree programme will offer students a further two opportunities to finalize this minor in the following year.

You will find a promotional video at our website www.minormakerslab.nl

Consider costs of about €100 on account of the student for materials, excursions and printing fees. 

Questions about the minor?
Contact Harm van Vugt (h.e.m.van.vugt@hva.nl) or Micky van Zeijl (m.van.zeijl@hva.nl) 

Questions about the Kies op Maat procedure?
Contact Tracy Hepp-Walker, info-cmd@hva.nl

Applications will be processed in the order of receipt of signed learning agreements.