Pop-up MakerSpace at Buffalo?
Scott Vader
Vic Nole passed me this interesting thread from the National Business Incubation Association.
Would be cool to try a one or two day thing where we got makers to show up with their equipment and materials to do a public shared "let's make pop-up event".
Would help our community to start to visualize what a permanent installation could look like.
Scott
From: Member On Behalf Of Mary Ann Gulino
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 7:38 PM
To: NBIA member listserve
Subject: Re: [NBIA Member] Incubator Pop-Up space
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From: Barbara Harley <>
To: NBIA member listserve <>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:36:10 -0700
Subject: Re: [NBIA Member] Incubator Pop-Up space
Sean - New York City has had a city-wide pop up shop program to serve many different types of outlets. Different spaces and monthly change-over in individual spaces. I visited one that TechShop, 3D printers, and GE Garages shared as a maker pop up last year in Chelsea which was in a space showcasing designer clothes the month before. There is lots of information about existing ones in NYC on line. You might contact TechShop which now has outlets in quite a few cities to see how they do it. The idea of a city sponsoring a program of pop ups is intriguing and might be something to pursue.
Barbara Harley
Harley Consulting Group
Palo Alto, California
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Sean OShea <> wrote:
Good Morning,
Does anyone have any experience using a certain designated space as a community Pop-Up space? By Pop-Up space I mean a space used for a particular purpose in a limited time frame. For example a Pop-Up art exhibit could allow an artist to display their work for one night only in a space that would not have traditionally been exhibition space. Another example is a Pop-Up store that only exists for a couple of days to give someone starting out the opportunity to test run a store.
I’m mostly wondering if anyone has insurance info, pitfall avoidance advice or ways in which the space is marketed to the community on both ends.
Thanks
Sean O’Shea
Program Director