Your festival experience wouldn’t be complete without a visit to The Making Rooms. It’s a place where creativity, technology and advanced manufacturing come together in a community facility for use by businesses, artists, inventors, students, children and just about everyone else to design and make anything.

Have a go at many of the free activities, experience the machines in action and discover the team’s micro-labs. Whatever your interests, you’ll find something here for you all under one roof!

What to expect:

• Contribute to a giant rug mural with the tufting gun
• Make seed bombs from shredded cardboard 
• Create a keyring from recycled plastic
• See the new ceramics 3D printer in action – be warned, the process is quite hypnotic!

The Making Rooms is best experienced by children aged 7+, young people and adults alike.

The Making Rooms is a place where creativity, technology and advanced manufacturing come together in a community facility for use by artists, inventors, students, children and just about everyone else to design and make anything from high-tech products and gadgets to toys, artworks, home decorations and accessibility devices.

At the heart of The Making Rooms is a Fab Lab containing an impressive range of modern fabrication equipment combining advanced manufacturing with traditional craft processes including 3D printing, laser cutting, electronics, CNC machining, pottery, sculpture and screen printing, to name but a few.