Thinkering Spaces

Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, ID faculty members Dale Fahnstrom and Greg Prygrocki combined multimodal technologies, sensorial objects, and open-ended activities in a physical space to create new experimental opportunities for exploring, tinkering, learning, and interacting in the virtual world.

They introduced “ThinkeringSpace,” a hybrid system of networked and remotely accessible physical environments that seeks to bring school-age children together to tinker with things, both physical and virtual, to reflect upon what they do and discover, and then elaborate their ideas in ways they can share with others.