Designing a Makerspace for Children – Let’s Do It

Sandra Schön; Martin Ebner; Maria Grandl

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18141-3_1

Designing a Makerspace for Children – Let’s Do It

Sandra Schön, Martin Ebner^*, Maria Grandl

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Abstract

When makerspaces are designed for children, special motivation and reasoning needs to be made. Within this article, we describe a case study: A temporary four-day open makerspace for about 40 children per day. Motivation, considerations and the development process as well as the actual realization are described and discussed. We comment on how such a space for children and adolescents should be arranged for future studies. As described, considerations in terms of participation, peer tutoring and gender mainstreaming influence the design of the space, the methods used, as well as the general setting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Educational Robotics in the Context of the Maker Movement, 2018
Editors	Michele Moro, Dimitris Alimisis, Luca Iocchi
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Pages	3-15
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-18141-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-18140-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18141-3_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	946 AISC
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Keywords

Children
Education
Maker Days
Maker education
Maker movement

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
General Computer Science

Fields of Expertise

Information, Communication & Computing

UN SDGs

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Designing a Makerspace for Children – Let’s Do It. / Schön, Sandra; Ebner, Martin ; Grandl, Maria.
Educational Robotics in the Context of the Maker Movement, 2018. ed. / Michele Moro; Dimitris Alimisis; Luca Iocchi. Springer, Cham, 2020. p. 3-15 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 946 AISC).

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