The Makers Yard

The Makers Yard The Makers Yard is an idea. These lists are by no means exhaustive! A gallery and exhibition space will allow members to display and sell their work.

The mission is to create a ‘pay-as-you-go’ open access workshop offering workbenches, fabrication bays, machinery, hand tools, consumables, technical support, storage, enclosed studios, offices, meeting and teaching spaces. The Makers Yard will be an open access workshop offering fabrication bays with access to large machinery, workbenches, hand tools, enclosed studios, offices, meeting and teachi

ng rooms. Due for launch in a 'lite' form in March 2017, the building offers a flexible space with clearly designated zones for woodwork, metal work, workbenches, hot works and a shop for consumables and hand-tool hire. The Makers Yard is for ammeters and professionals from all creative disciplines, who’ve outgrown their bedroom, kitchen or shed and who need the space to work on noisier, messier projects with wood, metal, polystyrene, concrete, and plastics in carpentry, cabinet making, instrument and props makers, puppet making, jeweling, sliversmithing, blacksmithing, metalsmithing, sculpting, glass blowing, ceramics, textiles, scenic construction, production design and fine product design. Self-contained offices will allow us to open a portion of the space up to lighting designers, producers, production and stage managers, architects and engineers – bringing those that create into close quarters with those that co-ordinate, offering much needed administrative support, encouraging collaboration and increasing the potential for new work. Whether you be an emerging maker, an established professional, or just curious and keen to learn something different The Makers Yard will be a home for all. Members will be encouraged to share knowledge and sills and can offset their workshop time by teaching a course or coaching others. A café run by OOTB, will go some way to realising the old building as a focal point for the community. OOTB has a proven track record in ventures of this nature and this café would follow the same model, as it’s highly successful parent at the Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street. The Makers Yard will be the first venture of this kind and scale in Edinburgh as part of the growing network of Scottish Makerspaces including Macklab, The whisky Bond, Process Studios, The Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh Hacklab and the Number Shop. A website and other social media platforms will follow soon. Like this page for updates in the meantime. To register interest or for more information, please email [email protected]

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The Makers Yard is an idea. It started when Big House Events (BHE) and Precious Metals Workshop (PMW) paired up in an effort to find affordable workshop space for their making practise.

BHE is a set design and construction company, PMW provides workspace for professional jewellers, silversmiths and the general public. The plan with TMY was to offer workshop a varied and all encompassing workshop space housing fabrication bays with access to large machinery, workbenches, hand tools, enclosed studios, offices, meeting and teaching rooms. Such space is disappearing fast in Edinburgh and we were forced to change our plans. TMY still has potential for the future, but in the meantime it exists in support of TMY and Edinburgh Open Workshop (EOW).

Edinburgh Open Workshop is a large-scale, open workshop space of 7,000 sq ft offering flexible pay-as-you-go accesses to studio space, storage, fabrication bays, workbenches, clean maker spaces, large workshop tools, and hand tools.

EOW can accommodate projects of all sizes, from small ‘at bench’ projects to large ‘on floor’ ones. Where existing maker-spaces focus on specific creative sectors, EOW is a multi arts hub. It functions as a focal point for a network of people across a wide range of disciplines and with a wide variety of needs. EOW exists to connect and develop the creative community, providing resources, training and support to the creative companies, freelancers and projects it hosts.