The Invention Rooms

Welcome to The Invention Rooms, a unique shared space at our White City Campus. Here you can find cutting-edge workshops, design studios and interactive spaces for innovation and collaboration between the College, the local community and our partners. Over the coming years, we hope to inspire generations of inventors, entrepreneurs and makers from the local area and beyond.

About our spaces

Young people using tools in the Reach Out Makerspace

Reach Out Makerspace

A workshop and design studio for young people from the local community to get hands-on experience of making and prototyping. There will be after-school programmes and equipment to make just about anything – from wearable technology to household gadgets.
Making equipment in the Advanced Hackspace

Advanced Hackspace

A cutting-edge workshop facility for staff, students and partners to develop new ideas and prototypes. The workshop includes 3D printing and digital manufacturing, woodwork and metalwork, and a bio-lab, which enables synthetic biology and molecular fabrication.
A community group sharing design ideas

Interaction Zone

Opening in Spring 2018, this will be a warm and welcoming space for the local community. It will host local events and activities, including science workshop and tech drop-in sessions. There will be meeting rooms, as well as an informal café and outdoor terrace where you can pop in and enjoy a coffee with us.

We celebrated the opening of The Invention Rooms at White City with a free community open day of maker activities for people of all ages. Play video
We celebrated the opening of The Invention Rooms at White City with a free community open day of maker activities for people of all ages.

The Invention Rooms Community Open Day

At our Community Open Day in October 2017, we invited members of the local White City community to design their own virtual reality games, build smartphone-controlled paper drones, and make UV jewellery inspired by medical science. The event also offered tours and tasters of The Invention Rooms' facilities, live music and entertainment, and the chance to meet some of our staff, students and other local partners. There were creative activities for all ages – take a look.