MATE ceramics runs its own projects alongside the collection. For A Cup of Me, Marie Technau made more than sixty drinking vessels by hand, and twenty-five participants used them over two days in workshops built around the project. Another project, one size fits all, is a series of six vases made about the gender health gap.

The first Neni cup was thrown in Mainz in 2021. Prototypes in other shapes and sizes followed in 2022, during a stretch in the UK, and in 2023 the form settled: a delicate foot under a wavy wall. The glazes came after that, developed to accentuate the wave. Since July 2023 the Neni has been part of every collection. The other shapes are published with their measurements: Bob, the mug, 9.5 centimetres across and 15 with the handle; Lola on a chunky foot, 230 to 260 ml; Cappu at about 220 ml.

In 2023 she opened Keramik Club with her studio partner Franziska Nebel, in the Neustadt district of Mainz, where the pottery workshops run for all age groups, beginners to experienced potters. Nebel studied communication design too, and has worked with clay since 2019.

The studio now stands in Achada, in the Mafra district, and visitors come by appointment. Other people's pieces go into the kiln too, through a firing service charged by weight or by renting the kiln outright. There are handbuilding courses over two sessions, open studio evenings and a glazing service.