Learnt how to make pinwheel whirligigs at the Japan edition of the Wonderful Idea Co. Tinkering World Tour. When I blow on the pinwheel, it turns and the worm with googly eyes moves also. #WICOworldtour
feeling really grateful to all the artists, educators & tinkerers who shared their projects & process with us at the #WICOworldtour ! we’re now planning another round of this inspiring global adventure and will soon be opening the sign-up page for ‘season two’ coming this fall!
Blossoming daisy spring wind contraption. Made out of strings, cardboard, paper, skewer and an upcycled glue dispenser (for the gears).The best Labor Day I could think of: inspiring and mind-blowingly diving deep into #tinkering , like a meditation. #WICOworldtour Japanese session
LAST CHANCE! just 24 hours left to sign up & support the #WICOworldtour , an online tinkering workshop where we virtually travel to italy, mexico, brazil, nepal & even “mars” to meet makers & educators experimenting with art, science and technology indiegogo.com/projects/wico-…
looking forward to another excellent #WICOworldtour session from New Mexico, USA later today! we’ll be starting with a glimpse into the #HandAndMachine research group at #UNM with Leah Buechley & talking about the intersection of high:low tech for tinkering projects and programs
less than 48 hours to sign up for #WICOworldtour pt 2!
join us as we virtually travel the world & meet muralists, recyclers, kit-makers, installation artists & mars explores from five different cities who all use a tinkering approach in their projects:
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season two of the #WICOworldtour stars in Emilia-Romagna, Italy on 9/22! we’ll be virtually visiting #remida center for creative recycling, meet the Fondazione Asphi working with digital education for people with disabilities & exploring new pastabilities for 3D printing 🍝
I ❤️ visiting museums & makerspaces to find new ideas to borrow/remix for Wonderful Idea Co.! For me, hosting the #WICOworldtour has been an amazing way to get inspired during the pandemic! the next round of our virtual #tinkering tour starting sept 22nd! igg.me/at/wicotinkeri…
Beautiful summary of this week’s space themed #tinkering world tour with Ryan Jenkins and an illustrious group of space travellers. So much fun steering gever tulley‘s Mars rovers that we forgot getting our own stuff ready😅
Drawing by Mariana Tamashiro
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happy #earthday ! we’re interested in the ways that tinkering activities can happen in & connect to the natural world! we’re excited to learn from Liam Nilsen in our last #WICOworldtour session on 5/19 about marble machines and bubbles at the festival of beached play in Aarhus!
happy #WorldSpaceWeek tinkerers! this week on the #WICOworldtour we launched into tinkering themed space tourism with inspiring projects from sophy wong’s spacesuits, gever tulley & Tinkering School mars mission & our friends at raumschiff sharing a workshop set up! so much fun 🚀
thanks to our amazing presenters at the Kyoto/Tokyo edition of the #tinkering world tour Tiffany Tseng 🍡 Tasty Snacking 山崎阿弥 Michael Smith-Welch つくるまなぶ京都町家科学館 Tsukuru-Manabu Kyoto Science Museum & theworkshop.tokyo we love the connections between paper craft, environments, memories & materiality #WICOworldtour
This past week was Ryan Jenkins themed and I had a blast : not only did I virtually travelled 2 sessions of the #WICOworldTour from Berlin to Japan, but also participated in the #servostories Make workshop with my son: here is our “Zeubi major” automata, a character he invented
here we go! in the first session of the #WICOworldtour we had a great time in #EmiliaRomagna visiting AngelaSofia Lombardo, bafforiccio toy lab, Fondazione Asphi, MEDIA INAF, and #remidabologna ! looking forward to the next weeks of global #tinkering explorations Wonderful Idea Co.
getting ready for #WICOworldtour season two in #kathmandu #nepal tomorrow with a hands-on STEAM kit activity with Sunoj Das Shrestha of Karkhana, virtual tour of FabLab Nepal and in-depth look at #makerKT projects for women and girls with Maker KT #tinkering 🇳🇵
Ready for week 2 of Wonderful Idea Co. tinkering world tour! I have to say I was very excited about today’s prompt to collect colorful debris. Time for my collection of unusable fabric scraps and colorful junk mail to shine 🤣 #WICOworldtour
Here is my scrap creature! I loved how booky margoof 👋🌞 talked about how these creatures can be “receipts” or ghosts of things you’ve made. My scrap creature was made from the scraps of masks I sewed at the beginning of the pandemic last year. #WICOworldtour
this is the last week to join & support our #WICOworldtour on indiegogo! we’re still announcing many new guests to this amazing global tinkering workshop Wonderful Idea Co. like gever tulley & the Tinkering School MARS mission! sign up today and learn more! indiegogo.com/projects/wico-…