The minor Makerslab is provided by the CMD program.

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. 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. We will challenge you to be curious, creative, and critical. You develop your skills in making, experimenting, hacking, tinkering, digital fabrication, soft robotics, and electronics.

The first half of the minor we provide an intense training in tools and techniques in the Makers Lab with weekly assignments. The second half of this minor program offers a unique opportunity to apply what you learned while you work in a transdisciplinary team.

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 our website: www.minormakerslab.nl

Makerslab is an FDMCI-minor provided by CMD. Video

https://minormakerslab.nl/

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.

Transdisciplinary 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 knows and shows how to manipulate material and use different digital fabrication technologies. The student can 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 skills with the (maker) community.

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. Don't hesitate to contact us for further inquiries.

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.

20-25 hours a week. Consider a 40 hours work load to successfully finish the course.

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).

Questions about the minor?

Contact Harm van Vugt via h.e.m.van.vugt@hva.nl

or Micky van Zeijl via m.van.zeijl@hva.nl

Questions about the Kies op Maat procedure?

Contact info-cmd@hva.nl

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

Costs:

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

Additional information:

http://minormakerslab.nl