Making a Kaiju

Over 3 weeks, 6 sessions were held to design and make a Kaiju. 34 people engaged in the process over 26 hours. 2 Edge staff members were involved in the process.

Digital design hours=

Digital CNC cutting hours =

Staff making hours on top of public drop in sessions =

Public sessions

The Edge put a call out to the wider Edge community as well as community that emerged from a similar call out in 2017 for Designing the Apocalypse

Here is the call out that went out via Newsletter and as a Facebook post:

The call out was broken up into two areas:

1. A Design Session

Design a New Kaiju

2. Drop in Making Sessions

Drop in Session 1

Drop in Session 2

Drop in Session 3

Drop in Session 4

Drop in Session 5

Drop in Session 6 onwards

Community group sessions

The Edge engaged with 2 Men's Sheds who came in twice. They worked on digital design skills as well as helped with putting together the initial large scale skeleton of the Kaiju

Community session 1

Planning Kaiju Signage