Day Two

Maker Movements and Designing for Tinkering

Let's think about the Maker Movement and what it means for makers and tinkerers alike. What is the purpose of your space?

FOR CLASS TWO READ:

Fleming's first chapter from the World of Making!
Resnick & Rosenbaum's Designing for Tinkerability

The Maker Movement

Participatory Culture...CULTURE???

What is culture?
How do we move from consumption to creation?
How does the Maker Movement combine formal and informal learning?
Describe a time when making made you try something outside your comfort/knowledge area?

Designing for Tinkerability

Let's talk about tinkering

What is tinkering?
Why explore, experiment, and try new things?
Will you be a top-down or bottom-up maker/tinkerer?

Let's try this practice activity....

Step TWO - ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERATIONS

Define your audiences' needs and attributes
Identify your resources for startup funding, costs, budgets, and sustainability

AUDIENCES

Audience considerations will drive your proposal's purpose (EMPATHY).

Who are they?
What are their ages?
What are their backgrounds?
What do they want and need?
What are their strengths and limitations?
What do you want them to know, be able to do, and think and feel?
What would this group need in a makerspace to encourage creativity, imagination, and play?

Empathy map challenge...

RESOURCES

Where will startup money come from?
How much will everything cost to begin?
Who will manage and sustain the budget?
How much will everything cost to sustain over time?

So, how do we do all of this?

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