Posted by Lizzy Van Lysebeth on March 28th, 2009 in Recent posts, What's going on

So my workshop problem seems to be solved. I went to see the possibility to rent a workshop space at Metropolitan works in east London. This is a truly amazing project. Metropolitan works is connected to the metropolitan university and is basically an initiative to provide technology, training and workspaces for designers, artists, engineers and other businesses to develop and realise creative and innovative ideas. It’s all brand new with some great and state of the art machinery, ranging from basic woodworking machinery to laser and water jet cutting machines, laser sintering, a huge 5 axis CNC routing machine and a rentable computer space with Rhino and Solidworks. I append some pictures below. You can rent workshop facilities on a pay and go daily basis or can choose to rent an enclosed space on a weekly basis. So a whole bunch of creative people will be working together next to a university full with creative students. If you have seen my initiative with ID-Sphere you can imagine that this is a project after my own heart (wouldn’t mind getting involved a couple of days a week.) So basically I will apply for a workspace there starting somewhere mid April, for 4-5 weeks so I can prepare for my exhibition end June. I’ll keep you posted how I get on.
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