Prototype your PhD - Group 1

This workshop will enable you to inspire and convince different audiences of your research. Through storytelling, you will learn how to create an audience-oriented story of your project which helps you to spark your listeners’ interest, and to successfully convey the relevancy of your research.

With Rapid Prototyping, you can transfer any theoretical or complex topic into a tangible visualization (prototype). This makes fundamental research comprehensible and accessible for your listeners – also outside the scientific community.

Your benefits:

• Learn how to use the method Rapid Prototyping to easily communicate your research ideas
• Use the narrative method Storytelling to spark interest and to convince your target audiences
• Get to know the Design Thinking approach and other creativity techniques for your daily work
• Get access to MakerSpace, the 1500 square meters high-tech prototyping workshop in Garching
• Join the entrepreneurial network of UnternehmerTUM with founders, researchers and companies

Our MakerSpace offers a place to implement ideas and innovations in the form of prototypes and small batch production. Various work areas are available, such as machine, metal and woodworking shops as well as textile and electrical processing facilities. In addition, 3D printers and laser and water jet cutters make it possible to fabricate new shapes and to process every type of material. After ‘Prototype your PhD’, you receive a 6-months MakerSpace scholarship.