This week, Lianna, Luigi, Ryoko and I are in Milan, leading a tinkering workshop for museum educators from all over Italy. Our workshop is taking place in a unbelievably beautiful 18th century Olivetan monastery, which was converted in the 50s to the largest science and technology museum in the country. We will be sharing some of our favorite activities and reflecting on the process of tinkering together. We arrived yesterday and began setting up the room and prepare our materials for the three day workshop.
Here’s how the room looked when we arrived in the morning.
We brought five giant suitcases full of materials for the workshop so the first step was to try to unpack in an organized way.
Circuit boards will be part of a exploration of circuits on the first day of the workshop.
Luigi prepped colorful trays for toy dissection.
Our scribbling machine supplies on the “altar of tinkering”.
I’ve been practicing a new operatic form of facilitation that I invented for the occasion.
Here’s our whole group and Maria at the front entrance of the museum.
We’re excited to start the workshop tomorrow and will keep the updates coming!
That’s ridiculous. The whole thing is ridiculous. This world is changing way too fast. Crazy. Awesome. I’m jealous. Big time. So cool.
First day of workshop in Milan: aaaaawwwwesomeeee!
Thank you Tinkering Studio! Thank you Exploratorium!
it was great to have all you with us in milano,
great fun and a dreams becaming true,
the exploratorium guys working with us,
and all the education department tinkering togheter,
really a fantastic day for me
thank you so much to you and to all my colleague
sara a proud tinkerer
thank you maria and sara (and the rest) for an amazing first day! it was great to see you all working with your hands, sharing ideas, and having fun. we also really appreciate all the insightful comments and tough questions during the discussions. it’s incredible how much we have done in just one day!
looking forward to tomorrow!