A Place for Local Making welcomes anyone to bring in surplus materials and electronics. We invite you to play, make, think with them, transforming them into useful or enjoyable things. We also welcome anyone who makes, repairs and repurposes to share their know-how and invaluable creations.

Let’s foster a community of maker-carer-user-hackers! Ideas for future collaborations are always welcome. Drop by or contact us!

Physical space commissioned by Urban Dream Brokerage, supported by Wellington City Council. 

Website produced through generous support by Creative New Zealand, with mentoring from Walter Langelaar & Layla Tweedie-Cullen.

The site runs on open-source infrastructures including WordPress and Aino. Typeface is Kulim-Park by New Zealand-based designer Dale Sattler.

In keeping with the kaupapa of low-carbon computing, this website is self-hosted locally in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, on a donated laptop courtesy of Cua Berthelsen. We subscribe to the principles of the Feminist Server Manifesto and the Home Brew Computer Club

To know more about the impact of internet CO₂ emissions, visit: Second Nature Lab & Low Tech Magazine

We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for their support: Sustainability Trust, Earthlink, Activities and Research in Environments for Creativity, Ingot Scrap Metals, SPCA Op Shop Lower Hutt, Jason Muir, Linda Lee, Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery, Chris Berthelsen