
One of the activities at the pop-up will be sewable electronics, which Jordan says is “a great fusion of two typically gendered disciplines”. Photo: Jordan Haddrick.
Inside the ANU campus bubble, there’s a workshop of great minds helping scientists, artists and engineers put together their work. For the first time ever, the MakerSpace workshop will be open to the public as a pop-up for Uncharted Territory festival.
The pop-up features a variety of machines that can vacuum-form moulds, cut with lasers and 3D print. There will also be a team of big-brained technical officers like Jordan Haddrick to guide people along the way in making their crafts.
Jordan does a variety of work in keeping the MakerSpaces on campus running smoothly, teaching, advising and working with students and academics to execute the ideas they come in with.
“Recently we’ve had a lot of people come…