Upstairs on the sixth floor, amid the myriad of offerings from the Industrial Design program, were nearly a dozen projects produced in part in the 1819 Innovation Hub’s Ground Floor Makerspace. The 12,000-square facility is part prototype and part fabrication — and filled to the brim with capstone projects each year during a four-week frenzy after spring break.
This year, 80 UC students, mainly from DAAP and the College of Engineering and Applied Science, used the Makerspace to construct products including bicycle parts, furniture, a chicken coop and tote bags.
The bags were the creation of Caroline Bussick and Iset Celik, who collaborated with local nonprofit the Remake Project to repurpose polyester advertising banners. Using the students’ original sewing pattern, the Makerspace held industrial sewing workshops in which student volunteers fashioned reusable shopping…
