Makerversity has always offered 20% of all memberships for free, as part of our residency programmes – Under 30's and Makers with a Mission.Here we take a look at the latest cohort and their projects, all joining Makerversity for 3 months free membership and support. Take a look below at our most recent cohort!

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Eoghan Dillane

Eoghan Dillane is an aspiring designer from Co. Monaghan, Ireland, now based in London. He holds a degree in Computing (UI Design) and Business and spent over a decade working with high-voltage electrical panels. For six years, he ran his family business building heavy-duty switchboards for mines and quarries, gaining deep technical experience alongside a growing interest in the creative, human side of design.

His current focus is a personal project: prototyping affordable colour-filter lenses to support people with dyslexia and photophobia. Using 3D-printed clip-on designs, he aims to reduce visual stress and make reading and screen use more comfortable, with plans to develop custom-designed glasses in the future.

Eoghan is also developing his skills in Fusion 360, reverse-engineering and 3D printing small plastic components to extend the life of refurbished equipment in a more sustainable way.

Outside of his practice, he enjoys painting, restoring and photographing cameras, and taking photos — mainly of architecture, street scenes and pets. He speaks some Irish and French, is learning Cantonese, and stays active through workouts and snooker.

You can keep up to date with Eoghan here.

Zoe Lambert

Zoe is a London-born jeweller with a background in fine art whose practice blends traditional bench skills with digital technologies to create bold, statement pieces that sit between analogue craft and contemporary design. Inspired by historic British symbols, gothic romance and early-2000s nostalgia, she combines techniques such as lost-wax casting and CAD to produce jewellery designed to be worn, kept and passed on.

At Makerversity, Zoe is developing two connected strands. The first, Modern Heirlooms, reworks personal motifs such as hearts and crucifixes into powerful, sensual pieces that feel substantial and built to last. The second explores crochet and filigree-inspired forms, translating intricate graphic patterns into metal through Illustrator, CAD, 3D printing and laser cutting.

Her residency also supports experimentation with new materials and more cost-efficient production methods in response to rising silver prices, using Makerversity’s equipment to prototype, test and refine new textures, structures and processes.

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You can find out more about Zoe's work here.

Josh Ling

Josh is a London-based furniture designer and maker who discovered his passion for furniture after studying aerospace engineering, seeking a more hands-on way to create. He came to wood through experimentation and a deep appreciation for its potential to bring beauty, tactility, and a sense of connection to a space. Drawing on experience at various furniture companies and training at the Sylva Foundation’s Wood School, Josh focuses on creating pieces that emphasize natural harmony, visible craftsmanship, and an immediate interaction between the work and the person engaging with it. His designs are inspired by timeless architecture, art, and design, with playful exposure of detailing to celebrate the making process.

For his Makerversity residency, Josh is developing a collection that explores localized manufacturing and the use of British hardwoods, inspired by dRMM: Building From Forests at the V&A. The collection highlights the underutilization of UK mixed-species hardwoods in both construction and furniture, offering a sustainable alternative to the high demand for imported woods. Josh aims to reduce waste by embracing the natural diversity of timber, creating pieces that contrast minimalist forms with rich textures and tones, and promoting furniture that is both sustainable and thoughtfully designed.

Follow Josh's work through the link here.

Bridget Cathie

Bridget is a Scottish maker, designer, and researcher based in London. Her practice explores the intersections of food, community, and spatial design, examining how everyday rituals such as cooking are shaped by the objects and infrastructures around them. With a background in Product Design and experience across fabrication, workshop operations, furniture and set building, and creative direction, she approaches design as a way of responding to contemporary socio political contexts and prompting dialogue.

Her work often takes the form of playful, provisional, or participatory environments and objects that encourage collective discussion. Ideas emerge through storytelling and shared experiences, developing gradually through research, conversation, and material experimentation. Bridget is particularly drawn to craft based methods and hands on making, using materials to prototype tools, objects, and structures that test ideas in practice. For her, making becomes a form of inquiry that helps reveal social and spatial dynamics, while embracing experimentation and unpredictability as catalysts for new creative directions.

Her residency at Somerset House builds on earlier work designing and constructing a modular kitchen system as a platform for debate and collective use. Based on principles of design for disassembly, modular construction, and manual operation, the project functioned as both an object and a piece of social infrastructure, imagining a near future where precariousness can foster adaptability, cooperation, and shared responsibility. Through the residency, she looks forward to developing the project alongside a community of makers and designers.

You can find out more about her work here

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