The Makers Yard

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]