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350万英镑的Steamhouse孵化器和制造商空间来到英国

Birmingham City University has started phase one of its £3.5 million STEAMhouse project. Created as an innovation center for multidisciplinary collaboration betweenScience, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math(蒸汽),设施结合了maker spaceequipped with prototyping tools including 3D printers, digital design software, and metal/wood processing equipment.

According to Professor Julian Beer, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham City University, “Our STEAMhouse project will optimise the potential to create jobs, skills, knowledge and alliances between businesses, academics, artists and citizens like never before.”

创造力的枢纽

This first stage of the STEAMhouse project focuses on construction of the building, reaching out to prospective businesses, and an experimental trial of the center’s free STEAMlab technology workshops.

Artists impression of the STEAMhouse's interior. Image via STEAMhouse
艺术家印象深刻的室内装饰。图片通过Steamhouse

在接下来的三年中,项目组织者的目标是与大伯明翰索利哈尔地方企业合作伙伴(GBS LEP)中的200加上潜在的中小企业互动。

在Steamhouse开展的计划将迎合更多传统实践的创造力。Steamhouse计划经理克莱顿·肖(Clayton Shaw)评论说:“与数字技术,工程和科学相结合时,人们意识到艺术的价值以及它可以产生的影响。”

“我们期待跨蒸汽学科的工作,并将企业与大学联系起来,以在整个GBSLEP地区以及在国内和国际上运用这种新的工作方式。”

The STEAMhouse team. Photo via Birmingham City University
The STEAMhouse team. Photo via Birmingham City University

A £22.2 million opportunity

在第二阶段,欧洲地区发展基金会和英格兰艺术委员会将向该项目投入2220万英镑,以扩大该中心,开展业务并支持Steamacademy课程。

Ruth Claxton, STEAMhouse Creative Director and Eastside Projects Associate Director, comments,

“We have been able to create really fantastic production facilities within the STEAMhouse maker space.”

借助数字,木材,金属和印刷品的一系列工具和设备,以及一个能够提供专业建议的才华横溢的技术人员团队,我们有信心我们创建了一个出色的新设施,这将改变人们的方式能够开发产品和原型新想法。”

其他激励措施

Steamhouse项目坐落在伦敦以外最大,人口最多的英国城市中,可以开发为即将到来的人才的国家孵化器。根据官方新闻稿,伯明翰城市大学是“是英格兰东南部以外的最大创意专业人士,也是英国在中国和马来西亚最成功的艺术与设计招聘人员。”

唯一的商人,初创企业和本地企业都被邀请参加Steamhouse项目。使用飞行员设施是免费的,有30英镑的赠款可用于涉及“早期原型制作材料”的企业。

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特色图片显示伯明翰市大学的Steamhouse徽标。图片通过Steamhouse