Workshops

As accuracy is key to success with mechanisms, some experience of working in wood would be an advantage, but not absolutely essential.

image credit: Press-up Anubis, Paul Spooner

There will be an opportunity to discuss your ideas and how we can, as a technical facility, help to realise your ideas.

You will then be shown the Rapid Prototyping facilities and produce a key fob strap in flexible durable material.

You will be instructed in the use of a milling machine and produce a key fob to attach to the RP strap.

Workshop led by Mark Squire and Oliver Hatfield.

Many students are already using this service to print designs for their work that can be made into T-shirts, clothes, large posters & banners, bags, upholstery, photographic displays, fine art sculptures, buttons, lampshades, canvas shoes and uppers, book covers & pages and anything else you can think of that’s made from digitally printed fabrics.

You can either choose to make your lampshade using one of our designs or using you own. If you wish to use your own design please email Ella Ella.Brett@falmouth.ac.uk who will send you instructions and a template to use once you’ve booked.

Fabric goes through three processes before it is ready for use.

PRINT - dyes are printed but not fixed STEAMING - to fix the dyes into the fabric WASHING - to remove excess dye & coating These and other printing issues such as fabric choice, ink types, colour changing, shrinkage etc., and how they affect your finished artwork will be explained and discussed.

You will then be shown the fundamentals of 3D printing from CAD design to fabrication.

Workshop with Peach Doble and Paul Ruskin, generate a name for your band or solo project, create artwork and make your own merch, inc. DIY printed T-shirts, badges, stickers and fanzines

image credit: Powerplant, Tommy Brentnall

When a paint is referred to as a 'lake colour', this indicates that a dye (such as those from plants) has been first precipitated onto an inert pigment. The inert pigment provided gives a body needed to make a paint.

No previous experience necessary, all materials provided.

This session with Owain Harris is about acquiring a few basic techniques which will allow you to make simple functional or decorative objects out of Bamboo.

All tools, safety equipment and materials will be provided.

Ever wanted to know how to take life casts of the body. You will learn how to work collaboratively and safely, understanding the steps you need to undertake to protect you skin and take a realistic cast of a hand.

A hands-on workshop, prepare to be messy! – don’t wear anything you are precious about. It is also best if you don’t wear Jewellery, as you may have to take it off.

You will work with Senior Technician, Peter Doubleday, on the construction of a simple dry bag that will demonstrate the range of capabilities of the machines and the materials appropriate to use with them. You'll leave with the bag you have made and with a hands-on experience of using these industrial machines appropriately and safely.

In this unique workshop, using primarily natural materials you will work with Senior Technician, Peter Doubleday, on the construction of a simple tool roll that will demonstrate the range of capabilities of the machines and the materials appropriate to use with them. You'll leave with the useful tool roll you have made and with a hands-on experience of using these industrial machines appropriately and safely.

You will also learn how to make ‘Shibori’, the ancient artisan Japanese technique of tie-dye, where cloth is pre-folded, rolled then tied or hand sewn, to create a huge range of patterns that will each be unique and that can be used any number of ways to create beautiful textile-based products from bags to bedclothes.

We’ll look at what a ‘story’ is, bust some myths on who can tell a story and how, and create some of our own! There will be play dough!

You should leave with the technical understanding and confidence of a metalworking process that can progress into a multitude of creative directions.

You will be kept safe throughout and are encouraged to return to continue working on any ideas explored during the session – TIG welding is a fully supervised activity, we provide overalls and safety wear, but please wear older practical clothing, don’t wear jewellery, and prepare to become dirty! Working with metal isn’t a clean process!

Previous experience of welding preferred for this workshop

Please wear older practical clothing, tie your hair back, and prepare to become dusty!

In this session with Jon Humphris you'll learn the fundamental of woodworking in the manufacture of a joiner's mallet.

You'll learn about specific timbers and how to work them, by using beech wood for the head, and then ash for the handle. You will learn how to mark up the tapered mortice and tennon, cut the mortice using drills and chisels, cut the tapered tennon to fit and shape the handle into a unique tool, specific to you, that you can start your own toolkit or give away as a gift!