Studio UM.ZU

Workshops, Makerspaces, and Digital Education

We connect hands-on making with creativity and technology. For schools, libraries, youth centers, and other learning spaces, we develop workshops and makerspaces where people can explore their own ideas and bring them to life.

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    Who we are


    We are Aron Petau and Friedrich Weber Goizel — makers, artists, and passionate technology educators.

    📍 In Berlin, we design and run workshops for youth education, adult learning, and public cultural and educational spaces.

    Beyond workshops, we also design and build complete makerspaces as physical environments and learning spaces. From the first idea to the finished setup, we advise on equipment, spatial design, and suitable learning formats.

    We offer mobile introductory formats as well as in-depth workshops for spaces that already have equipment. Every format is adapted to your goals, equipment, audience, and space.

    Our topics range from 3D printing, laser cutting, and plotting to robotics, artificial intelligence, photography, video, and creative web development.


    More about our approach

    Makerspaces are more than just workshops — they are open learning environments that fundamentally differ from traditional classrooms. Instead of frontal teaching, peer learning is at the core: participants learn from each other, exchange ideas, and develop solutions together. Through hands-on experience, people become active, realize their ideas, and experiment in a space that embraces mistakes as part of the learning process.

    Our workshops serve as scaffolding: We create a supportive infrastructure of tools, materials, and guidance that enables participants to work and learn independently. This scaffolding provides just the right amount of support — neither too much nor too little — so that everyone can realize their own ideas.

    At the heart of our workshops is self-efficacy: We create experiences where everyone discovers that their own actions lead to tangible results. This "I did it!" moment builds confidence and motivates continued learning.

    We reach all participants through their intrinsic motivation — through topics and projects that spark their own curiosity. Our offerings are always voluntary and inviting, never mandatory. This creates genuine learning experiences driven by personal interest and the joy of discovery.


    We offer:

    Let’s create a space together where craft meets code, analog meets digital, and ideas come to life.

    Looking for a workshop, planning a makerspace, or developing your own idea? Write to us and we will develop a suitable format:

    kontakt@studio-umzu.de

    Our Profiles

    Aron

    Aron has a background in cognitive science, AI, and media didactics.
    He loves tricky software problems and enjoys thinking about plastic as a material beyond the printer. Already during his undergraduate studies, within the research project UOS.DLL – Digitales Lernen Leben, he co-developed and set up makerspaces. In his artistic master’s program, Design and Computation, he also focused on technology didactics and technical futures. In particular, within the research program InKüLe, Innovations for Artistic Teaching at UdK, he gained extensive experience with new teaching and learning formats, ranging from event support through custom livestreaming solutions to designing and running his own workshops on AI and virtual realities.

    In collaboration at studio einszwovier with Friedrich, Aron was also able to test his master’s thesis on design practice as a peer-learning format in school teaching.

    Here’s a detailed bio:

    Friedrich

    Friedrich Weber Goizel first studied Fine Arts at the UdK Berlin. Later, he added studies in Humanoid Robotics and Design & Computation.

    In 2022, he was a fellow of the Cultural Foundation’s program “dive in. Program for Digital Interactions”, which explored the use of robotics in public libraries. Since then, he has been independently leading workshops in the field of “Making” at various Berlin libraries.

    As a workshop leader, he also works with Junge Tüftler*innen, Berlin at different locations such as community libraries, makerspaces, and the Futurium. Alongside running the makerspace studio einszwovier at a Berlin high school together with Aron, Friedrich also works as a conceptual and media artist.

    What matters most to him is sparking enthusiasm for technology, offering a low-threshold entry point, trying out new things together, and creating a learning environment where a creative approach to technology emerges in a playful way.

    Find out more about Friedrich.


    Our combined workshop skills

    Creative Design

    Laser, CNC & Material Transformation

    • LightBurn
    • Laser Cutting and Engraving
    • CNC Milling
    • Plastic Recycling and Sheet Material

    Programming & Web

    Electronics & Making

    Drones, Scanning & Spatial Data