Beyond the Pages: Recoded City Date: 9 June 2016 Time: 6:30PM Location: Machines Room, 45, Vyner Street, Hackney, London, E2 9DQSpeakers: Thomas Ermacora (Chair), editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Lucy Bullivant, editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Clementine Blakemore, WORKSHOP architecture Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse Petra Havelska and Igor Marko, Marko & PlacemakersBeyond the […] more »
OPEN CALL: Free Professional Development Programme for London-based creatives LONDON CREATIVE NETWORK is a new development programme for creative practitioners in London, run by SPACE, with Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion. Cockpit Arts will support designer-makers through a rolling programme to develop new processes, products and services, underpinned by business skills and leading to a more sustainable practice. […] more »
We are very excited to be hosting Processing Playground course – come learn a really cool multi-use coding programme for anyone with a visual mind – book tickets here! more »
Starting 15th June Machines Room is hosting classes on Blender – an extremely useful, open source software which can be used in all kinds of fabrication and animation! Book tickets here! more »
The Dr Bike programme, part of Life Cycle UK, is visiting Machines Room – we will be hosting an experienced mechanic who will check over bikes and make simple repairs and adjustments to ensure they are in good working order, for FREE! Bring your bike! 1st June 5-8pm more »
Join us for the next Precious Plastic meetup, where we will set in motion the next phase of sourcing and building our very own plastic recycling system! Check out the inspiration, get involved and follow our progress! 1st June 6:30pm Free! more »
A work in progress show from the students of MA Fashion Futures at London College of Fashion. As humans we operate primarily at intimate scales, looking for connection both to ourselves and to others around us. Yet fashion, a supposed marker of our relationships to one another and the world, outwardly […] more »
Maker Library Resident Workshop: Mechanical Lamps Join March’s Maker-In-Residence Matt Gilbert at Machines Room to create (and keep!) lamps using his unique scissor structure technique. All materials included in the cost of the ticket. WHEN Wednesday, 18 May 2016 from 18:00 to 21:00 (BST) – WHERE Machines Room – 45 Vyner Street, […] more »
PLASTIC EXTRUSION! The very generous Tom Fox arranged the donation of a plastic extruder – an ancient retro precursor to the 3D printer! The whole kit is amazing, complete with plastic moulds and barrels of plastic beads to melt down (like old-fashioned PLA!). Next steps are to figure out how […] more »