Makerspaces
What is a makerspace? Makerspaces are places for collaborative inquiry, making, and tinkering.
Participants come together to learn, design, explore, and share using various low and high tech equipment and tools. Makerspaces are places of learning. They can be housed in a stationary place, like a classroom, community center, or library, but they can also be mobile, popping up virtually anywhere, including parks and museums.
What does it mean to "make" or "tinker"?
"It's thinking with your hands and learning through doing. It's slowing down and getting curious about the mechanics and mysteries of the everyday stuff around you. It's whimsical, enjoyable, fraught with dead ends, frustrating, and ultimately about inquiry[...]you're questioning your assumptions about the way something works, and you're investigating it on your own terms." - from The Art of Tinkering
Designing School for the Innovation Economy
In BPS, our evolving vision for makerspaces is currently being shaped by our exhibit on Designing School for the Innovation Economy. With this exhibit, we aim to share and solicit ideas around making and tinkering with our BPS community.
Makerspace Guides
Have a question? Join the Workplace community: BPS Makers
Add Yourself to the BPS Makerspaces Map
Do you have a makerspace? Add yours to our calendar! Do you want to visit a Makerspace? Reach out to the schools and organizations below.
By mapping out the makerspaces in our BPS community and in the Greater Boston area, we can learn and share with each other through learning walks, projects, professional learning, and more.