Access Space

Description

Access Space is a Sheffield-based charity and open-access media lab, founded in 2000, working across digital arts, digital fabrication, electronic music and open-source technology. It provides a shared space, tools and peer learning for artists and makers, and has acted as an interface between academia and the public, hosting a series of Arts and Humanities Research Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded practice research projects, including Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves, Digital Folk and Inhabiting the Hack, in partnership with universities and the Science Museum. Its Refab Space provides digital-fabrication facilities such as laser cutting and 3D printing.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2000

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Science Museum Group

Tracing its origins from the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Science Museum has pioneered interactive science interpretation for more than eight decades and is the most visited museum in the UK by schoo… read more about Science Museum Group

London

Additional Partnerships

University of Sheffield; University of Leeds