Maker Summit @ GRASP 25
(Images from the 2024 maker summit)
We invite all Fablabs and Makerspaces in Denmark (and the Rigsfællesskab and neighbouring countries, if they want) to a Maker Summit 2025 at the GRASP Festival.
Maker Summit is an opportunity for grassroots practitioners who run Makerspaces and Fablabs in local communities, schools, libraries, and universities to exchange knowledge, discuss how the Maker movement can contribute to solving global problems like climate change, and learn best practices from each other, such as increasing circularity and reducing material waste.
The summit is co-organised by Fablab RUC and Orange Makers as a part of the larger Grasp Festival organised by Roskilde Festival and Roskilde University.
GRASP Festival is 25 - 26 September 2025 at Musicon (with Roskilde Festival, Roskilde Festival High School, Roskilde University, Fablab RUC, Orange Makers, Ragnarock) in Roskilde. GRASP is an exciting, inspiring knowledge festival and conference that mixes research, art, activism and practice. Art, research, activism and practice meet at GRASP. We are looking for new connections that can solve the biggest challenges of our time and create community, creativity and sustainable change.
Maker Summit consists of multiple tracks at the Grasp Festival:
On Thursday, Circular lab and Corolab will have events about sustainable design and entrepreneurship (to be updated).
On Friday, we have the following:
Entangling the Maker-Researcher-
Artist-Activist-Citizen in the Real World
Open call curated by Maja Fagerberg Ranten mranten@ruc.dk, Nicolas Padfield
nicolasp@ruc.dk and Mads Hobye hobye@ruc.dk
In an era of technological complexity and sustainability challenges, the maker must embrace entanglement with larger issues - recognising the deep interconnections between materials, technologies, bodies, politics, ethics, and society. This track explores how future maker-researcher-artist-activist-citizens navigate this complexity through participatory, adaptive, and regenerative practices that foreground agency, sustainability, and critical engagement.
Rather than seeking fixed solutions, the maker's role draws from open-source principles, embodied knowledge, and sensory aesthetics to co-create alternative design futures. We have invited submissions that interrogate and expand the maker's role through themes encouraging critical, participatory, and embodied approaches to making, positioning the maker as an active agent in shaping responsive, adaptive, and entangled design futures. Together, we seek to reimagine making as a site of transformation - where design is not merely a product, but a process of entangled becoming.
Maker Summit and community open soap box
Connect with other Makers and participate in a pecha kucha like soapbox session where we invite all attending Fablabs and Makerspaces to contribute 5 minute presentations of something your space has solved/does well, so we all can be inspired by and learn from each other.
Informal "hygge" and networking in Orange Makerspace.
We have an informal afterparty in Orange Makerspace after Grasp is over.
(Images from the GRASP 2024)
