Developing environmentally-conscious makerspaces
Commitment: Climate & biodiversity crisis
In the past few years many museums have been developing tinkering studios, makerspaces and fablabs as part of their programmes and exhibitions. These spaces can offer ways to connect to our audiences and engage them in thinking about societal issues, sustainability and the environment in personally meaningful ways.
We are interested in discussing the behind-the-scenes ways that we can be more environmentally conscious in our programmes; avoiding superfluous use of technology and wasteful making. Methodologies, activities and projects that range from biomaterials, to solar panels, from the culture of repair to tool sharing will be presented and discussed.
We’ll develop a set of best practices and raise juicy questions about sustainable making and tinkering programmes. There will be room for discussion and reflection about the most relevant topics and themes for this emerging area of exploration.
Facilitator
Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
Session speakers
Critics towards makerspace and fablabs allegedly promoting consumerism should not be too quickly dismissed, even if they clearly fail to understand the multifaceted vocation of these spaces. Being integrated in a building dedicated to urban manufacturing and circular economy, Onl’fait is continuously stimulated to reflect on our practises and adapt them.
Skibet Makerspace is a small community driven creative space exploring ideas of sustainability and creativity in rural Denmark. We’ll share a few of our early thoughts and aspirations for the space and the community with regards to sustainability.
STEAM Educator and Artist
STEAM educator and artist who develops educational programming out of the Nest Makerspace, a garage makerspace of Okada Design, Cupertino, California, USA. She is a Co-Founder of BioJam Camp at Stanford University, and is a three time Biodesign Challenge Instructor. Takara is also a Board member of the Salinas Community Biolab Xinampa.
Sharing experiences with biodesign as previous participants of the Biodesign Challenge. We will also share our journey as teens exploring biomaterial crafting through a project we developed, the GIY Bio Buddies toy kit.
Sharing experiences with biodesign as previous participants of the Biodesign Challenge. We will also share our journey as teens exploring biomaterial crafting through a project we developed, the GIY Bio Buddies toy kit.
