Goldsmiths Computing has gained four new spaces this week, with the opening of two fabrication workshops, a specialist teaching room and a staff office.

Situated inside St James Hatcham Building (popularly known as ‘the church’), these new spaces comprise:

• G11: a specialist teaching room with suspended powerpoints and workbenches
• G12: the ‘tidy’ workshop with a dozen 3D printers and an Epilog laser cutter
• G13: the ‘messy’ workshop for wood-working, drilling, sewing and carving, with a ShopBot CNC mill.

These new spaces place Goldsmiths Computing in the forefront of creative computing, allowing students and staff to design and build physical objects that incorporate digital technology.

The as-yet-unnamed facility builds on the concept of the maker space, hacker space or fablab; this is a social space where students from across the department will meet, socialise and collaborate. It joins our suite of superb facilities that include a motion capture lab, digital studios, games lab and computing labs.