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Collingwood College Creativity Club

A maker space with a difference. Emphasis on salvaging materials and creativity.

Our Creativity Club is not a run-of-the-mill maker space. We salvage, dismantle, reuse and upcycle all sorts of electronics and other materials with the intention of gaining a deeper understanding of the materials that are commonplace in our modern lives. We emphasis creativity with found materials and in the process learn much about the materials themselves and how these can be rich resources.

Overview

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2016

Established

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Children

1

Countries
Updated
February 2018
Wow, I so love this work! Each is a little piece of creative art — love the reenvisioning of recycled materials, springs and gears — each has so much personality!

About the innovation

Collingwood College Creativity Club

After a short research trip I decided to initiate a maker space at Collingwood College where my daughter attended primary school. The principal was very supportive and provided me with a space and some funds for purchase of basic tools.

I wanted to create a space with a difference, a space that harnessed young people's natural creativity and without resorting to the run-of-the-mill implementations i.e. 3d printers, robots, etc.

Resources in the form of discarded electronics were sourced from the community so the students had a great array of 'materials' to work with. THis came at no cost.

This all came at a time when the government of Australia (the UK and US as well) had initiated the Digital Technologies curriculum. Through my research and experience as a teacher and artist, I felt that the approach adopted above was important and necessary for engaging all students, not only those already engaged with technologies. This proved to be a successful decision and engaged children of both genders, parents and teachers.

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