A small workshop for free creation, open to all who wish to use it.


Having interests, curiosities, and good feelings are the main energy of urban regeneration.

The city offers an incredible variety of learning labs

workshop index

a selections of workshops, from several hours to several months...

Workshop Index HERE

documents, etc...

some documents, pamphlets, publications, proposals, scrapbooks...

documents index HERE




small workshop is about

a mixture of workshops, often together, by Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen.

While based in Auckland suburbs, we have the resources of the Super City at our doorstep, harbours, beaches, mountains and rivers in our backyard, and diverse collaborators throughout the country and around the world.

based on research and experiments in New Zealand, Japan, Cambodia and the EU by making-doing, xin cheng, a-small-lab and companions

contact: xin@makeshifting.net & chris@a-small-lab.com