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5 Ws who, what, how, why, when and where

WHAT

I want to develop a Fabricademy for kids, a 'Mini-Fabricademy', to build a bridge between children/youngsters, textile and technology.

HOW

This will be done by giving STEAM workshops and making tutorials in which TEXTILE is used as the medium.

The way this will be done will be developed in different stages:

  1. Despite of having a fixed infrastructure to give the STEAM workshops, I first will give them on location (events, schools,...). Therefore I'm putting in place an infrastructure that can be easiliy moved by a little van.

  2. I hope that, in the near future, there will be a location available in the centre of my village for giving such kind of workshops on a regular base. I then will combine it with the mobile STEAM workshops.

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WHO

For children and youngsters, girls and boys. Depending on the kind of workshop, the age of the children that can participate will change.

WHY (challenge, opportunity and mission)

With the purpose to learn children different techniques to transform fibers and textile and so to elevate their awareness/respect for DIY and the ' Makersworld'.

And at the same time make them aware of the sustainability issues related to textile.

And so hopefully create a local community of 'small' Makers.

WHEN/WHERE (context and relevance of the project)

By my own experience I know that it is very valuable of letting children realise their ideas/dreams by making beautiful things with their hands, and this by using technical skills. Skills for which their is often not enough time to teach them at school. And if this is teached at school, it stays often very basic and superficial.

I am really convinced a lot of children are capable to make complex technical things and are eager to learn those skills to canalize their creativity and to create their own 3D-world.

Where I live (a small village 30 km outside Brussels, on the border of the Walloon and Flemish region) there are not such possibilities for children to do it on a frequently base, especially not for children with low financial ressources. Altough there is now a little Makers community for adults growing.

So I would like to contribute by setting up a Makers Space for children.