Archive:Kreativlabor Open 2025

Date: Freitag, 16.05. – Sonntag, 18.05.25

Official Kreativquartier Open times: Friday 6 PM open end; Saturday 12 PM until open end; Sunday 12PM until 6PM => we need to check, how we long we want to open for the public.

Link: https://kreativlabor-open.de/

What: Open program on the Kreativquartier Area

Details: Last year it was a mixed program with Open Doors on the most of the facilities (not including the Makerlab :-/) in the Kreativquartier, Workshops, Musik, Food. It started already on Friday and ended on Sunday around afternoon. Depending on the available people we

Slackchannel: #kreativquartieropen2025

After Event Summary Report

Event Report

Overview

• The event ran very smoothly.
• There were no real issues.
• People were fascinated by the space concepts.
• Running the event was not much extra effort, except for being present all weekend. Our space is already designed for people to gather. This time was a bit special because we had to create a new plan for the lab, restart the soldering workshops, check all our event equipment, and replace a few items.

What Went Well

• Large name tags for space members were very helpful so people could ask questions.
• The huge demo table at the entrance was a great eye-catcher.
• We were included in the printed program. Many people came because of this, including families with children and those who wanted to try soldering for a long time. Visitors wanted to participate, not just look at art or performances at the event.
• Outdoor decorations and another event in our yard helped attract people passing by.
• There were always enough members on site, so everyone had the chance to visit other venues too.

Areas for Improvement

• 3D printing should be partly moved outside the laser cube. Some people are hesitant to enter the box.
• We could offer drinks, but this would require registration in advance and fixed prices.
• If the weather is good, we should organize some activities outdoors.
• Member commitment: We need more people to commit to being at the event and reliably organizing a small activity on their own.
• The outdoor appearance of our space is a bit plain and could be improved with more decorations in general. Makes the preparation effort also much simpler. This could be a good follow-up project.
• The demo table at the event, featuring 3D-printed and laser-cut items, was very successful. We should enhance our current demo presentation, making it more visually appealing. Anything that can light up or move should be set up to do so, to attract even more attention.

More points:

• people loved the sticker boxes and were shocked when I told them that they can just grab a few. Maybe get some more variety for the next time?
• Everyone loved the 3D prints! I got asked a couple times if we sell some of them. Children also would have loved to take something home. Maybe let's print some mini Benchys we can give away next time?
• A lot of people asked if we do workshops which would be really nice if we could bring that back somehow. (Of course I told them about 3D Printing, CNC and Workshop safety).
• A lot of parents would have loved to make their children members and were kind of disappointed when I told them it' 18+. Don't want to change that. It's more of a FYI.

Observations

Chain effect: When people sat and talked in front of the lab, more and more joined. Also, once one or two women started the soldering workshop, more quickly joined, and soon almost all spots were filled with women. That was good, because you realized that otherwise there is still an inhibition threshold. For children, it made no difference, which is great!

Steps to Organize the Event

1. Find one person early to take the lead. This is important for communicating with the festival organizer.
2. Set a rough, general program. The organizer needs this early and it gives a chance to get some funding.
3. Register with the KVR.
4. Create groups for each part of the event, prepare activities, and request any needed funding.
5. Prepare the space.
6. Run the event over the weekend.
7. Clean up everything afterward.
8. Share results on social media and write a report.

Regarding Soldering Workshop details:

Checkout report on Workshop Soldering and Electronics Art

Program

Idea is to have a mixed program. The main part is just having an open day and be part of the Kreativquartier open, so that the visitor can have a look inside and see what we are doing. This can happen by just let people scroll around in the lab, but also about guided tours what we have similar to the open Thursdays. Next to that, it would be cool to offer some small Workshops or interactive parts in front of the lab and inside the lab. Since the Kreativquartier Open is a full weekend it would be good if we can arrange it also like a open Meetup for the members. So that there is "Life" in the lab and people are working also on their small (demo) projects. May you have something, that you wanted to repair since a long time or you have a nice demo project you can work on?

Ideas, what we could do. Feel free to add more points or take one of the ideas.

Day	Time		Program	Who
Friday
	Evening	Internal	Setup the space and Maker get together	?
	Evening	Internal	Setup the space. Maybe ask answers and show the space, if people are asking	Milian, Chris B?, Adrian?
Saturday
	Every hour from x to x	Public	Lab Tour	Ferdi, Aaron, Jonas
	All day	Public	Lötworkshop inside the lab (electronic)	Milian + Chris new
	All day	Public	CNC Demo	Justin
	All day	Public	Laser and 3D Print Demo	Chris B, Adrian
	Evening	Internal	Informal get together	?
Sunday
	Every hour from x to x		Lab Tour	?
	All day		Lötworkshop	Milian + Chris New
	All day		Laser and 3D Print Demo	Chris B, Adrian
	All day		CNC Demo	Justing

Tasks/Ideas/People

What	Who	Details	Tasks
Main Organization	Milian	Organize program, People, Sync with Kreativlaboar e.v.	- Create Slack Channel => done - Advertise Date, invite member => done - Update Calender => done - Create rough program ideas and get responsible people => in progress - Plan planning meeting => first done - Sync with Kreativquartier Open organizer => done - Create plan for KVR (until 06.04!) => done - Invite all people to share invites => done
Organization support	Adrian, Chris B
Lötworkshop	Milian + Chris		- Check out what sets to make => done - Order Test Kits => done - Test workshop to double check our workshop material and tools => in progress - Request money on the plenum for more kits => done - Order remaining kits and replacement material => done - Prepare Manuals and inspiration prints => done
Barbecue		Make barbecue for internal purpose?	- someone needed to who takes the task - request money => 100€ approved
Decoration	Milian	- Fancy lights (Milian) - 3 self build ones - Fancy ferry lights (Milian) - 1 fancy one - Cables - Visuals? (two beamers available, Milian has one more) - Present Demo projects ...? - Flipchart (Milian) for the program	- mount new hooks at the wall => done - bring stuff to the lab
3D Printing	Chris B, Adrian	- 2 colorful PLA roles are move to a box in the basement, probably we will need more	- requeset money => done - buy Filament => done - what models to print => Name Tags => done - prepare everything for the day
CNC Demo	Justing		- buy material?
Lasercutter	chris B, Adrian		- buy MDF?
Lab Tours	compare above		no todos
Things to buy	Milian		- Pavillion => ordered https://kronenburg-handel.de/products/kronenburg-faltpavillon-3x3m-mit-4-seitenteilen-blau?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=f5fcd3f6f&pr_rec_pid=8212903985451&pr_ref_pid=8212898283819&pr_seq=uniform - Lötkits => in progress - Wandhaken für Deko außen => done
Toiletts		Should we offer toilets at our location? Then we would need to stock and clean them?	- We will offer not Toiletts for external

Event setup

- Hang up decoration

- Remove keys and cash

Documents

Floorplan:

https://github.com/munichmakerlab/space-infrastructure/tree/main/space-plans

File:Makerlab Floorplan v2.pdf

File:Makerlab Floorplan v2.drawio

Inventory check

- 1-2 Pavillions

- 2 Biertische + 5 Bierbänke + 1 Addtional big table

- 2 VGA Beamer

- One Roll up and one

Things to buy

- 1 good Pavillion: which one?

- PLA?

- MDF?

- Electronic Kits

Details

Lötworkshop

Details: Workshop Soldering and Electronics Art

3D Printing

Inventory: PLA Neon Green, PLA Neon Orange, PLA White

Budget: up to 60€: 20250410Plenum

Whistle: https://www.printables.com/model/598381-super-mini-whistle-only-5min-print-time-mk4?lang=de

Makerlab Nametag: https://github.com/munichmakerlab/design-stuff/tree/master/name-tag