#digital making

Working with the Scout Association on digital skills for life

Today we’re launching a new partnership between the Scouts and the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will help tens of thousands of young people learn crucial digital skills for life. In this blog post, I want to explain what we’ve got planned, why it matters, and how you can get involved.

This is personal

First, let me tell you why this partnership matters to me. As a child growing up in North Wales…

Tate Kids x Folk Art: Hand-Made Digital Workshop

July 2014

On this weekend, Tate Kids got involved in the Folk Art Makers Weekend at Tate Britain. In the morning, families came in and played Tate Kids games in the Digital Studio inspired by the British Folk Art exhibition, making many new creations using Spin, Air Brush and Street Art.

Later on in the day, young makers made patches using e-textiles with maker Emilie Giles. Young people played with simple circuits, software and sewing to craft hand-made e-textile objects, inspired by the quilts and embroidery in the Tate's British Folk Art exhibition.

As Tate Kids convener Kat Box explained after the session, "We thought about our favourite hobbies and the stories we could tell on our patches. Everyone made excellent unique artworks. We even got to make music with circuit boards and bananas! It was a very exciting day as it was the first time using our Digital Studio for kids and families, and we got some great feedback. We will hopefully be running more events like this in the Digital Studio in the future."

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We are excited to say that we have our Learning Labs teen advisory board in tact! We hand picked ten applicants to come and explore the world of digital making @ the NYSCI Maker Space. 

Compiling the teen advisory board was a bit of a challenge, we wanted to keep an open framework while still setting guidelines for how we were to choose the group.  We reviewed each application searching for teens with experience in digital making, i.e. working with videos, animation or programming.

In the application we asked about their experience with digital tools and projects, what they had made in school or on their own. We concluded by asking them to express what they would like to learn in the ways of digital making, if given the opportunity.  The response we received to this question was an integral aspect in our final decision.  We felt it was equally important for us to get a sense of what the applicant was driven to do.

We have our first of ten scheduled hangouts on December 1st and are eager to see how this whole process unfolds.  When scheduling these hangouts we found it difficult to make it work for all the teens every time.  We decided to set a schedule of regular hangouts every other Saturday and on the alternating Fridays we’ll have a “make up” day.  The teens can come to see the projects and software we messed around with the previous Saturday or to continue the work they started.

The first day will begin with an overview and introduction to the program, but given our limited time together we plan on hitting the ground running.  We lined up a series of activities that emphasize the importance of collaboration and teamwork, and at the same time encourage each teen to reflect on the individual strengths that make up the whole.

[En]coding Architecture, at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg Pennsylvinia, on February 2013 will discuss new forms of architecture, new modes of representation, new forms of fabrication, within the context of tectonics, cultural philosophy, architectural theory and geopolitics.

The architect is no longer an organizer of matter and space, but a designer of systems with multi-layered components and increasingly complex relationships. [En]Coding Architecture 2013 invites rising superstars, experienced researchers and designers to present experimental work derived through computational thinking and digital making. [En]Coding Architecture 2013 positions the field as an alloy of programming, digital tooling, art and science.

Speakers:

Sanford Kwinter, Harvard GSD

Eric Goldemberg, MONAD, FIU School of Architecture

Daniel Shiffman, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Lars Lerup, RICE School of Architecture

Sean Ahlquist, Taubman College, University of Michigan

Warren Neidich, Delft School of Design, TU Delft School of Architecture

Neil Leach, University of Southern California

Wes McGee, Taubman College, University of Michigan

Niccolo Casas, Bartlett School of Architecture, Academia Di Belle Arti Di Bologna (tbc)

A series of workshops will be organized with Daniel Schiffman on The Nature of Code and Wes McGee on Robots in Architecture.

Submission in the following fields are encouraged:

Material Morphology and Code

Tooling

Interaction | Human Computer Interface | Behavior

Augmented Construction | Architectural Robots in the Built Environment

Data | Architecture as Geopolitical Act

The new Pathology of Architecture | Indulging Opulence | Flesh

Submission should be sent before January 8th, 2013. Full projects due: January 31th 2013.