This course was taken in my second semester of my Masters Program and opened abstract thought process and creativity centered around physical making and prototyping.

Challenge

Questions that I considered in this course were:

a) How can we think about learning experiences and the context of physical spaces as they support sense of belonging, community, and creativity?

b) How can making and physical prototyping be a skill that can aid learning and or bridge stronger connections to difficult threshold concepts such as social justice, equity, and anti-racism?

c) How can we continue to think about making and physical prototyping while in an at-home environment?

Solution

While there isn’t any one clear solution for these questions and it is still an ongoing personal research interest of mine. I have however explored and worked through a few exercises that lead to new discoveries, questions, and answers that could help me interrogate the questions above.

• Physical Prototyping Design Sprint

• Discussions with Maker Community and Global Maker Community

• Creating digital artifacts for the Makerhub community

Impact

Half of the time I created physical and tangible prototyping at the makerspace and since COVID the making has somewhat transitioned to digital forms.

Artifact

In this course I created as a piece part of the final project was something for the cohort and makerspace community. In the transition of life during the pandemic I created this Makerhub Yearbook as a way to bring a summation of the questions, discussions, and project into something that could remind the community, cohort, and peers of the work that was done throughout the semester.

*** Note: Some of the pages have been omitted to protect the privacy of the makers. Pages that you seen have been granted permission for public showing