Make-Believe Studio is the latest creative offshoot of School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, an independent school founded in Berlin in 2014 from a desire to create more in-depth learning experiences in the areas of art, technology, and design, for women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and other people often underrepresented in these spaces.

At the time, most classes being offered weren’t so in-depth or diverse, which led us to wanting to design programs that are both, not only teaching tech skills to artists and creativity for techies but cultivating a desire to create thoughtful and whimsical things while helping humans connect to themselves and to each other.

Since 2015, the school has been housed in ACUD Kunsthaus, a historic 19th century building that’s one of the few remaining independent art houses predating the fall of the Berlin Wall. This July, we decided to undertake our next challenge: expanding our location to include a beautiful space on the top floor.

To make it happen, we started a membership program that would give people living in or visiting Berlin access to our spaces with a lovely group of humans whose experience spans the areas of game design, generative art, mixed reality, new media, interactive installation, sound design, photography, live-performance, 3D, visual anthropology, UI/UX, data, privacy, radio arts and more!

It is from these first gatherings of lovely, curious and like-minded humans, that Make-Believe Studio was recently born!

Make-Believe Studio c/o ACUD, Veteranenstr. 21, vorderhaus, 5th Floor

membership@makebelievestudio.berlin

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