Making Courses

The Factory’s making courses and workshops are designed to provide an easy and accessible introduction to our digital fabrication tools and workshop facilities.

We guide and support trainees through each step of the design and making process, whether they’re creating laser cut jewellery, Christmas decorations, pieces of furniture, or something else.

We also offer enterprise training to budding entrepreneurs and growth businesses.

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Upcoming courses:

Making It – Design | Making | Tech

Learn new skills and expand your horizons in this exciting digital design and making programme.

Through practical sessions, you’ll learn a range of skills including how to use digital design software, follow a design process, and operate machinery including laser cutters and 3D Printers. You will also have access to one-to-one mentoring and supported sessions where you can experiment, prototype and test ideas for your own project.

Alongside this, there will be a schedule of specialist workshops in topics ranging from Wearable Technology to Virtual Reality, to broaden your knowledge of digital technologies and potential applications.

Making It will run from May to July 2019, and will culminate in a showcase event where you’ll have the chance the present what you’ve made to potential industry employers.

The programme is open to women aged 16+ from the Bristol county area, and people of any gender aged 16+ from South Bristol.

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Workshop: Laser Cut Jewellery

Learn how to design and make a piece of laser cut jewellery in this 4 hour Saturday workshop.

£55
Saturday 1st June
10am – 2pm

Book your place here

5 Week Hybrid Laser Cutting for Printmakers

Explore ways in which laser cutting can be used as an exciting digital tool in the printmaking process on this new 5 week course based at KWMC: The Factory in partnership with Spike Print Studio.

£195
Mondays 3rd June to 1st July
1:30 – 4:30pm

Book your place here

Visit the main KWMC Events page to find out more about our upcoming courses or contact our technicians on 0117 403 2306 if you have an idea for a course or a group looking for training.

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