The café will be open at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre on the 23 & 24 of March from 10am to 4pm.
The Digital Makers Network team from The Glasgow School of Art’s Institute for Design Innovation (InDI) will host a 3D printing café at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre on the 23 & 24 of March 2016 it was announced today, 17 March 2016. The café will offer free 3D printing demonstrations and drop in sessions with the team of experts. Visitors will be able to discuss the potential of 3D printing in a rural context, experience the technology, and explore some new ideas of how 3D printing could be used in the future. The cafés are an opportunity for anyone to come along and experience the technology, talk to the GSA research team and explore its possible uses for the future…. and to have a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Technology such as 3D printers are seen potentially as a very important part of how we design, make and consume the products of the future. They are a common feature in places like maker spaces and fab labs throughout the world, and even in some homes. The North Uist cafés will be open to anyone who wants to know more about what a maker space is like and talk to us about what it could mean for rural areas in the future.
The café will be open at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre North Uist on the 23 & 24 of March from 10am to 4pm. The Digital Makers Network team will be on hand to answer any questions about 3D printing, digital technology and maker spaces…. and serve tea.
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Lesley Booth
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Notes for Editors
- Fab labs and maker spaces are places such as workshops or cafés that are open to public and businesses where people come along and experiment with new ideas, learn how to use new technology as well as getting together and being social.
- The Digital Makers Network is a research project run in partnership between The Glasgow School of Art Institute of Design Innovation and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. It explores the role for new digital design and new digital manufacturing technologies, like 3D printing, in creative rural enterprises, and researches the future for manufacturing across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.