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    • Experiments to share
      • The final works created during the Local Making residency explore the potential of Electronic waste and living materials through three lamps constructed from e-waste components and biomaterials, a hi-vis jacket inoculated with mycelium, and three odd socks filled with mycelium growth.

    • Experiments with Collections
      • These images show some of the experimentation with the collection of items foraged from Tipping Point Showing some initial experimentation developing my skill weaving with electrical wires and the scobby leather shade texture. Working with the lamp that was in the skip bin (in water) I later took that whole lamp apart to use for […]

    • Tipping point trip
      • Early in the year the Local Making crew when to the nothing wasted shed. This is where I found most my inspiration and materials for the works that I have created for the Year Of Resourceful Making show.

    • E-Waste Robot workshop with Noughty Wasters
      • Session 1: Start our session with a group brainstorm. Jack (apprentice builder, Ann who runs the Makerspace and Noah who is an electronics enthusiast and going into his final year of high school. Set to work connecting hand crank generators to each of the motors Putting two together to test Vaan testing the weight carrying […]

    • Junk Robotics with the Noughty Wasters
      • In March 2026, Local Making and Noughty Wasters teamed up to offer a Junk Robotics workshop for children aged 8–14. Helping to deliver the workshop were Jack, an apprentice builder; Noah, an electronics enthusiast and teen helper entering his final year of high school; and Caspian, a Noughty Wasters facilitator. The programme came about through […]

    • Zeal TEXPO
      • Realised that old games require very low and are just as inteersting! Street Fighter II was just xxKB. Devised Games / Icebreakers to learn peoples Names: Then we started playing the Classic game of snake and had the kids devise new rules for how to play. In this iteration, there are four player snake – […]

    • Transforming Waste at the Nothing Wasted Shed
      • For the past month and a half, we have been gathering every Saturday morning at the Nothing Wasted Shed, Tipping Point, for a session we call Hang out & Tinker. Hang Out & Tinker is a space for practicing repair, reuse, and creative transformation using discarded electronics and other materials. Each week is energising because […]

    • A Year of Resourceful Making
      • A two-day exhibition of creative work developed over the past year | 🕒 Celebration + talks + performance: Saturday 27 June 1pm - 2pm | 📍 Waiōrea Community Recycling Centre, Western Springs

    • Saturday Makers @ Tipping Point, Henderson
      • Repair, hack, upcycle, and create with discarded materials! Calling all makers, inventors, hackers, and tinkerers. Join us for a series of hands-on gatherings at the Nothing Wasted Shed to work with discarded electronics and other materials. A space for practicing repair, creative transformation, hacking, and upcycling. Bring your own project to work on, or an […]

    • Junk Robotics
      • When 🕐: Saturday, 14th, 21st & 28th March | 1:00 – 4:00 pm | Where 📍: Noughty Wasters Makerspace, Resource Recovery Devonport

    • Residency: Post Script
      • The Local Makers Residency generously offered to me by Adam Ben Dror has been an opportunity to expose my artistic practice to new contexts and deepen my thinking about obsolescence and collaboration. At the beginning of the residency Adam took fellow resident artists Hannah-Lee Jade, Chris Berthelsen and I to the Tipping Point. at the Waitākere Resource […]

    • Tansy Liang
      • Tansy is a design student and a beginner local maker in Auckland. She explores materials through playful, hands-on processes. She enjoys testing different possibilities, noticing small details, and learning through making. Her physics background helps her see how materials respond and transform. She values sustainability and hopes to use both design and physics to help […]

    • Inara Dutta
      • Inara photo Inara is a third year LLB/BDes student at the University of Auckland. Interested in the emergence of AI, Inara inspects the crossover of technology and people, and how artists’ right to their work can be protected. Her designs feature bold, vivid colours and a narrative approach to connect people and foster meaningful connections. […]

    • Inara Ray
      • Inara photo Inara is a third year LLB/BDes student at the University of Auckland. Interested in the emergence of AI, Inara inspects the crossover of technology and people, and how artists’ right to their work can be protected. Her designs feature bold, vivid colours and a narrative approach to connect people and foster meaningful connections. […]

    • Residency Photo Journal
      • A collection of moments, visits, and small happenings from the project as it unfolds. Wednesday 15th OctoberHannah and Chris made an impromptu visit, with Chris offering delicious traditional Manaki: sweet hot chocolate (served in uncollected student work from Jack Tilson’s Wood-Fired Pottery School), baked kūmara, and freshly foraged weeds! Wednesday 12th November Kristan larsen plays […]

    • Distributed Resource Centre (DRC)
      • An ever-growing resource centre of freely available resources for art and pleasure (commercial and household waste, fruit/vegetables and other food, skills, time, places/infrastructure) “around here”. [Supported, in part, by Hibiscus and Bays Local Board] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DistributedResourceCentre/ The photos in this document came out of a series of projects at and around Mairangi Arts Centre (MAC) […]

    • E-Waste Arcade
      • We run a weekly 3pm – 5:30pm Thursday drop-in tinker sessions at Zeal West, Henderson — a youth space where young people meet, hang out, and learn new skills. These sessions led to a two-day E-Waste Hackathon, exploring the design challenge: “How can we take the Zeal kaupapa to the streets?” We came up with […]

    • Post 01
      • Prompts: What do you like to make?How did you learn to make things? – Intentions / interests – Scrapbook / Process – Summary

    • Hannah-Lee Jade
      • Hannah-Lee Jade is a textile artist and designer from Auckland, New Zealand, known for her work at the intersection of art, ecology, and material innovation. Her work focuses on sustainability and circular design, exploring how to transform waste into new materials, particularly through research into biomaterials like mycelium. Hannah has experience in fashion design and […]

    • Kristian Larsen
      • New Zealand based artist Kristian Larsen is a choreographer and multidisciplinary performance maker. A graduate of three of New Zealand’s key dance institutions (UNITEC-PAS, The New Zealand School of Dance, and the University of Auckland), Larsen holds a Masters Degree in Creative and Performing Arts. Larsen has worked extensively as a performer and collaborator with […]

    • Chris Berthelsen
      • Originally from Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, Chris is now based in Matsuyama in Japan where as an Associate professor at Ehime University, doing artistic research as part of the Japanese Government’s weather control project, Moonshot Goal 8. Chris explores environments for creative activity, resident-led modification of the lived environment, and alternative education(s). He runs public projects […]

    • Cara-Sophia Andres
      • Crafting with Waste: From Trash to Treasure Product: The Bottle Bass Drawing attention to plastic pollution across our global oceans through rethinking the value and potential of discarded materials. Ongoing Process Documentation & Musical Score Project Brief Undertake an iterative design process crafting a functional music instrument out of discarded materials. In the process, research the sonic, […]

    • Jun Hao Shen
      • I decided to create a waist drum after being inspired by my classmates’ projects at school, which taught me a lot. I planned to use cardboard for the drum. First, I divided the waist drum into eight sides, measuring the length of each side to be approximately 8.16 cm. I then marked these measurements with […]

    • Nancy Wu
      • I started this project by gathering a range of waste objects that interested me and I thought had good potential for a musical instrument. I was intrigued by both string and percussion elements of existing instruments therefore I wanted to explore both in my instrument. For my first draft instrument I placed a tin can […]

    • Tyler Simpson
      • This blog post will aim to document the process I undertook to create a successful prototype in Design 100, Assignment 2/4: Initial Ideas: When initiating this project, I commenced my ideation process in order to identify a effective final solution to proceed with. This process allow me to understand what would be realistically possible in […]

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