Tinkering Studio
A Place to Try Your Ideas
In the Tinkering Studio, students and families will engage in extended building, tinkering and other creative activities. The Studio supports multiple modes of operation; often visitors will be able to take their own creations with them to extend the activities in the classroom or in the kitchen at home.
The Tinkering Studio:
- Fosters creative exploration by tinkerers of ALL ages.
- Brings together the right environment, materials, and facilitation to create powerful, personal experiences wrapped around the idea of Making and Tinkering.
- Is a platform to gather together community members as Guest Tinkerers, acting as a connecting point between visitors, professional Makers, and what the Institute for the Future calls “the professional amateur.”
- Helps map abstract science concepts, process skills, and habits of mind onto hands-on experiences.
- Proudly displays traces of past work – photographs and artifacts seeded around to honor previous visitors’ work, and inspire the current tinkerers in the space.
- Allows visitors to work socially in ways that are important and meaningful to them – as groups, pairs, individually, or whatever configuration is comfortable.
- Provides comfortable spaces for exploring, waiting, and observing.
- Remains fresh and ever-changing. The host museum has an array of tinkering activities that they can pull out at any time. The space is designed to allow the museum staff to develop and explore new activities, or adapt with the interests of the immediate visitor.
The Components:
Resource Cabinets
Storage and Supplies
Entry Display Cases
Marble Walls
Media Center
Workbench
