Makers Lab: Making as Research
This program trains you as a transdisciplinary tinkerer through hands-on experimentation with digital fabrication, soft robotics, and new materials.
Are you curious, creative, and critical?
Join us for a semester of transdisciplinary making, experiments, hacking, tinkering, digital fabrication, soft robotics and electronics. This semester course offered at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences provides an intense training in digital fabrication (tools and techniques like laser cutting, 3D printing, new materials, and electronics), and an introduction into tinkering and making-as-research. We aim to empower you to become a critical maker and tinkerer. In this minor, the act of making and tinkering is a way to research, discover and push boundaries.
The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences’ Makers Lab is your playground this semester. We will challenge you to be curious, creative, and critical. You develop your skills in making, experimenting, hacking, tinkering, digital fabrication, soft robotics, and electronics.
The first half of the minor we provide an intense training in tools and techniques in the Makers Lab with weekly assignments. The second half of this minor program offers a unique opportunity to apply what you learned while you work in a transdisciplinary team.
Join us in the minor Makers Lab and discover the art of making in the 21st century. Unleash your creativity and make a positive impact on the world!
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Who are we looking for?
This minor welcomes students with an open, curious, and analytical attitude, coming from a fashion, design, art, ICT, or engineering background, who have demonstrable experience with 2 or more of the following at intermediate level: 3D modelling, electronics, 2D design (vector drawing), programming skills, garment construction, molding & casting, mechanical engineering/machine building. As the entire program is taught in English, participants are required to speak, read, and write English on a B2 level.
What you gain
At the end of this minor you have developed yourself as transdisciplinary tinkerer. You bring valuable hands-on knowledge and maker skills to any professional environment: you can work with conceptual frameworks to initiate question-driven design processes with an awareness of the context. This allows you to develop an ethical contemporary maker practice and share your expertise in a way that allows others to build on and learn from your work.
Transdisciplinary learning
The student brings in their own expertise, values the expertise of other students, finds synergy with different disciplines to create and tinker purposeful ideas and concepts.
Digital Crafts and Making
The student knows and shows how to manipulate material and use different digital fabrication technologies. The student can tinker and experiment with it. The student is aware of their responsibility and the impact of making. Actively builds upon what is already out there and gives back by sharing their skills with the (maker) community.
More information
For more information or questions, please contact the International Office CMD [email protected] or the coordinator of the programme: Micky van Zeijl or Harm van Vugt.
Want to apply?
Application deadline
15 October 2026.