WICO@Home Workshops with Friends

Over the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with several ways of engaging with making and tinkering activities. I’ve been collaborating with the Tinkering School to create online camps that blend physical and digital tinkering for learners working from home. As well I’ve had a couple small chances to share projects from my “at home” tinkering spaces.

I wanted to share a few of the video workshops/conversations that I’ve been part of over the past few months in the hopes that they can inspire continued tinkering projects.

https://makercamp.com/events/ Ryan Jenkins is the co-founder and director of Wonderful Idea Co, a creative studio that explores art, science & technology thr...

I joined some of the Maker Faire alumni to lead a maker camp session on building “junk automata” or moving kinetic sculptures out of scrap materials found around the house.

Welcome to Exploring with Mr. Reynolds. In this episode, we are joined by a special guest, Ryan Jenkins, co-founder of the Wonderful Idea Co. Together, we wi...

Continuing with the automata theme, I joined an inspiring teachers, Mr Reynolds, to discuss the tips and tricks of building cranky contraptions as well as some ideas for tinkering at home.

The Scott Family Amazeum Makers in Residence program brings talented creatives to the museum to share ideas, develop new experiences, and provide guests with...

Later on in the summer I joined Paul Stolt from the Amazeum in Bentonville Arkansas to talk about virtual tinkering, experiments with kaleidoscopes and physical/digital prototypes.

A creative and interactive session using household objects to create art out of light and shadow. With Ryan Jenkins and Sebastian Martin as well as many invi...

And finally I joined my colleagues from the ECSITE makerspace to bring the tinkering spirit to this year’s virtual conference with some experiments with light, shadow and everyday materials. Although we missed meeting in person, it was really fun to see all of the different ways people have been tinkering at home.

Over the next several months there will be more chances to share professional development workshops, weekend family classes and conference presentations about making and tinkering. Of course we can’t wait until we can all tinker together in-person but for now we can enjoy chances to share ideas and be inspired at a distance.