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PARTICIPATING MAKERSPACES

Participating Makerspaces

AUPROTEC

BUNTSPEICHER Zwönitz

exterior building and landscape (image by Klaus Jedlicka)

Olbernhauer Hutzenstübl

Kulturnetzwerk UW Etzdorf

Lehngericht Augustusburg

Sternenlabor Plauen

ESCHE LAB

Kulturgut Linda e.V.

Stadtwirtschaft & FabLab Stadtfabrikanten

Kulturhaus KLackx

NETZ-Werk Neukirchen

A culinary Makerhub in an old cars sales centre just outside of Chemnitz.

Klub Solitaer Chemnitz

Experiment Kitchen

Interior Bar

Lokal Labor Alte Brauerei Annaberg-Buchholz

interior

Vector Lab CNC Kreativachse Chemnitz

Chaostreff

Werkbank32 & Dialogus Mittweida

Two Makerspaces in MIttweida Saxony combining digital innovation with artistic woodwork and social inclusion

Lößnitz Makers #diemacherei e.V.

A workspace where future technologies, social engagement and culture meet. Traditional crafts, modern technical applications, upcycling and cooperation with local makers are in focus here.

Kulturwerk Schneeberg

Tradition meets innovation in the middle of a city. This space is still in development - more Information coming soon.

MAKER RESIDENCE PROGRAM 2024

For our Maker Residence program 2024 we could invite
25 European makers with 12 different nationalities
aged 21 to 66 years to each work parallel in
1 of our 12 selected makerspaces in Chemnitz Region
in the run-up to the makers united festival,
where they presented a participative and educational project.
We have organised several network events and aimed for a sustainable connection between all makers and makerspaces together with other international guests.

Our Maker Residence is a successful and unique project that has created
a European network around makers united, on which base we will realise exciting cooperative projects and a second edition of the Maker Residence program in the year of
Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025.

The Maker Residence 2024 was made possible by
the Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr

Applications are now closed

Makerspaces

Applications for the Maker Residence program are closed

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One week plus festival (11.6.-23.6.)

One month plus festival (21.5.-23.6.)

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MEET the MAKERS

Edurne Herrán (ESP)

Edurne Herrán is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, originally from Ingolstadt-Donau and raised in the Basque Country (Spain). She holds a BA from the University of the Basque Country, along with MFAs in Art Research & Creation, Cultural Management and Contemporary Photography, plus advanced studies in Costume Styling and Solfège.
Her work engages with everyday life, exploring human encounters and communication. Leveraging new technologies and social dynamics, she contextualizes her pieces around the emotional impact of digital interaction, often involving public participation to create a performative dimension. Currently, she develops her artistic practice, teaches workshops, and collaborates with Berlin’s Ferdinand Freiligrath Schule in upcycling and redesign projects.
Her motto is: Just make it!

Ferdinand Doblhammer (AUT)

Ferdinand Doblhammer, born 1996, works in the fields of media art, music and design. His works deal with data security in an environment of constantly growing virtualization, the thereby provoked borders and border crossings. He tries to point out problems regarding media policies in our nowadays world through the (mis-)use of machine learning systems, video and installation.

Nerea Lekuona (ESP)

The work of Nerea Lekuona (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1976) is always an exercise in adaptation to the medium, intuition, and insight. In her proposals, the treatment of images, letters, writing, action, mediation, and the analysis of the current circumstances intersect.

Starting from graphic and visual aspects, installation, intervention, and expanded formats have gradually gained ground in her artistic project, where she combines all her expressive resources with a critical perspective on the world we share. Thus, her work represents a full display of technical skills, where the hybridization of formats, political reflections, social sensitivity, cunning, and irony invite a distancing from established norms and forms.

(picture © Guggenheim Bilbao)

Logge Romani (ITA)

We are Karl Logge and Marta Romani — originally from Sydney in Australia and Brescia in North Italy, we live and work in Sardinia, Italy as a collaborative artist duo.

Our joint practice is influenced by the deep-time of places, cycles and seasons and is closely connected to nature, territory and cultural memory. This ongoing research started in 2014 after moving to the island of Sant’Antioco to become students of the master of traditional weaving Chiara Vigo. Over the last five years we have been absorbing many kinds of knowledge and techniques and have begun reworking our existing methods that include live-art, material-specific interrogations and site-responsive installation to begin a new phase of practice that looks at how the ancient aspects of weaving, spinning and dying can be used to explore themes of crisis, adaptation and interconnectedness. Working with colour, time, repetition and nature we now create works that mobilize the space of art as a memory-scope by engaging the material alchemy and timeless gestures of weaving as a platform for generating new modes of transmission, exchange and encounter.

Wout Zweers (NL)

I am artist, engineer, designer, in the order you like. One of the big lessons in my work was that these professions are depending upon each other and experience, knowledge in one area easily flows to the other place. After my study irrigation sciences in Wageningen I moved to Enschede in 1987 for becoming better in making videomovies and documentaries at the AKI, the fine arts academy. However I discovered sculpture, welding gear, graphic art and quickly shifted to the workshops where I could work with wood, steel, ink, all tangible materials. I graduated in mixed media and stayed in Enschede, have a nice studio here, gathered tools, experience, friends that I still rely on. I built stage sets, sculptures, gave various classes and workshops. I love making things, inventing, building, tinkering. At this very moment the circle has closed: I met my former water engineering profession and work now again with water, rivers, landscapes, making models of them, drafting.

(Image by Aileen Slot for Newsroom Enschede)

Tom Violleau (FR)

As an industrial designer, i'm passionate about rapid prototyping and circular economy. I'm a creative person who like to pass on knowledge to people. I usually work with design schools, fab labs and non-profit organizations.

I developed a process for creating objects from 3D printer plastic waste featuring a colorful marble effect. I typically make small items such as jewelry, tops, combs, and more. During my residency at Aut Weiter Flur in 2024, I invited kids to create sculptures using these plastic remnants along with wood scraps from a laser cutter. The result is a vibrant collection of robots, dinosaurs, and abstract sculptures made from discarded materials.

Anastasiia Lopatiuk (UKR)

As an upcycling artist and designer, Anastasiia has dedicated herself to eco-artistic practices, repurposing and transforming "waste" materials into new decorative and functional objects under her upcycling project called Metåfora. The main idea is to reveal the new potential of abondoned things and materials that seem to have lost their value, and to endow them with new meaning, function and beauty, as she feels it, and at the same time take care of nature, preserve resources. She works with different materials (fabric, plastic, wood, paper, etc.) and old or abondoned objects, which she reinterpret artistically, combining traditional crafts and tools with modern technologies and mediums. One of the main and favorite areas of her work is the transformation of textile ''waste''. Anastasiia creates accessories, wearable and decorative artworks using remnants and scraps of fabric, textiles, yarn, and also transform used clothes that people bring to her for transformations.

Fedele Tagarelli (ITA)

Fedele is an Electrical Engineer (Ph.D.) with a focus on optoelectronics, automation, and semiconductor device design. His expertise lies in creating and optimizing experimental setups to study advanced materials under extreme conditions, such as cryogenic temperatures. With a strong foundation in microfabrication and interdisciplinary collaboration, he has worked on projects ranging from high-precision optoelectronic systems at EPFL’s LANES lab to battery management for Hyperloop prototypes. Fedele is passionate about tackling complex engineering challenges and advancing our understanding of emerging technologies in quantum and photonic applications.

Rémi Plault (FR)

Rémi Plault is a self-taught contemporary French artist, specializing in the creation of metal, kinetic works. After exploring the metallurgy trade, Rémi quickly shifted his career towards art, showcasing his unique talent for working with metal in a creative and poetic way.

His works stand out for their diversity and depth. Two years ago, Rémi created his first monumental project, the "Vegetal Wall," for the entrance hall of a building in Paris. This piece, crafted with welded metal rods, integrates tropical plants, bringing freshness and life into the urban environment.

Last year, he completed a notable collaboration with the hotel-restaurant La Chaumière in Aubigny-sur-Nère, creating a metal stag in a bellowing posture, which has since become a symbol of the establishment.

Berenike Corcuera (PER / DE)

Berenike Corcuera is a textiles and fibre visual artist who explores spirituality and belonging in her work. She graduated in 2019 from BA Fashion Design with Print at Central Saint Martins (CSM).

Born in Peru, she grew up as a “third culture kid in Brussels to a German mother and Peruvian father”. Her textile craft practice brings about her struggle to identify her geographical and spiritual roots.

Mélanie Thomas (FR)

As a passionate and committed industrial designer, I believe that creativity, sharing and cooperation are the keys to individual and collective emancipation.

After several years (>7 years) spent in fablabs in Lyon and Neuchâtel, I joined the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW) to promote the next generation of technicians and engineers in French-speaking Switzerland.
At the same time, I'm involved in the Fablab in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where I hold various positions as treasurer, vice-president, trainer and workshop leader.
I'm passionate about inclusion, accessibility and gender equality, as well as the values of low-tech, minimalism and frugality.

Convinced that digital fabrication can be a lever for empowerment for everyone, I'm committed every day to creating spaces for sharing and empowerment

Jeremy Leung (HK)

Jeremy Leung holds a MMus in Music Technology from Utrecht University of the Arts, His interdisciplinary portfolio includes recent work on sonic branding for the Kaboom Festival (NL), Curator of Third Place, a Youtube channel promotes Dutch artists with stylised production and builder of the sonic crystal irido that aims to enhance audio/acoustic experience in enclosed spaces with multimodal stimulus. irido is picked up by AMS institute for their startup booster program, showcased at Schiphol Airport, Mikser Festival 2024 in Serbia and with its acoustic properties measured at the TU Delft.

Jessica Swift (UK)

Based in West Yorkshire, Jessica Swift is a Bradford based 24 year old contemporary artist. She primarily works in contemporary sculpture and abstract painting. Interested in the methods of making, she aims to allow the viewer to think about the process behind her work, rather than just the finished piece as a whole. This stems from her prefered way of learning due to being dyslexic - Her work values colour and texture as this is how she feels people and herself learn from her work best.

Pavel Ruzyak

Pavel Ruzyak is the co-initiator and workshopleader of Osvěta z.s. Prague
He studied at the Konrad Wolf Babelsberg Film University in Germany and at FAMU in Prague, focusing on directing, where he graduated in 2016. His second academic background lies at the intersection of theology and philosophy at HTF UK. As a filmmaker, he has directed short and medium-length films that have been shown in competitions at over 40 international film festivals and have received multiple awards. He was also selected to participate in numerous international workshops and collaborations in the fields of film, social issues, youth, and research.

Since 2017, he has been working on initiatives within the Prague-based association Osvět z.s., where he developed filmmaking education for visually impaired people, especially young people. He also implements this initiative in general education schools through workshops aimed at bringing young people closer to their visually impaired peers through cinematography. For makers united he worked on Toy design for visually impaired people.

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