Presenting back
October 24th, 2009
Noisebridge
October 23rd, 2009
Wild Idea presentation
October 23rd, 2009
The Wild Idea!
September 22nd, 2009
The Centre for Life is an award winning Science Centre at the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne, it is a bold, colourful and inspiring place, with a changing programme of hands-on exhibitions and exciting activities.
Life wants to do more for an adult audience and they feel that this is best done through events and add-on activities.
Life hosted the first UK Maker Faire in March and will be doing so again in March 2010 and is setting up Newcastle Dorkbot (a regular get together “For people who do strange things with electricity”) as it seems the community of people who are creative with technology are a natural audience for a science centre to work with. There is potential to extend this to creating a Hackerspace (a community-run place where such people can work on their projects) close to the Centre for Life and they’d like to give this a go.
No Museum or Science Centre in the UK has attempted to do this, nor has any anywhere else yet as far as we know (and we’ve asked Hackerspace guru Mitch Altman) so how might we make this work? Where might the money come from? How can we make it integrated with the rest of what we do? What might the pitfalls be? Will it be worse than having steam engine volunteers in an industrial museum?
What do you think? Could this kind of concept work for your organisation? Are you interested in creating a creative space for your local community?
