MAIA evolved from the former materials archive and offers all students on site a collection of materials to touch, try out and draw inspiration from. In addition to materials and raw materials, it also contains semi-finished products relevant to product designers.
There is also the MAIA online database. Here, you can search in the categories materials, semi-finished products and »HomeMade«.
Under »HomeMade«, students have the opportunity to enter their own projects and experiments, share them and exchange information.
Incidentally, MAIA stands for:
M Muster (Sample)
A Ausstellung (Exhibition)
I Information
A Archive
Commercial material databases have more extensive collections and should always be used to supplement MAIA. Additions, suggestions and other comments are always welcome ...
MAIA can be used with a valid university login.