Lukowski Sarah, Goeke Megan, Schmit Bette, Bequette Marjorie
Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 9;14:1120186. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1120186. eCollection 2023.
Makerspaces, workspaces where families can explore materials and tools collaboratively, can provide an opportunity for creative expression and early engineering learning in community spaces. The present study examined a cardboard-focused museum makerspace that included an assembly-style activity. Assembly-style making uses instructions to support makers. Such activities have been critiqued as limiting creativity and engineering thinking. However, makers who are less comfortable in makerspaces may benefit from assembly-style activities helping to scaffold their entry into the space. We explored these criticisms and potential benefits of assembly-style making through developing case studies of video data taken by families in a makerspace. Visitors made creative and personally meaningful creations when engaged in assembly style making. Moreover, assembly-style making mediated a family less comfortable with making to get started in the space alongside ample evidence of families following engineering design processes. Contrary to popular belief, assembly-style making offers an important support to novice makers, without eliminating creativity and engineering design processes, and should be considered in the mix of activities available in makerspaces to support makers of all levels of comfort in making.
创客空间是家庭可以协作探索材料和工具的工作空间，它能为社区空间中的创意表达和早期工程学习提供机会。本研究考察了一个以纸板为重点的博物馆创客空间，其中包括一项组装式活动。组装式制作利用说明来支持创客。此类活动被批评为限制了创造力和工程思维。然而，在创客空间中不太自在的创客可能会受益于组装式活动，这些活动有助于搭建他们进入该空间的桥梁。我们通过对家庭在创客空间拍摄的视频数据进行案例研究，探讨了组装式制作的这些批评意见和潜在益处。参观者在参与组装式制作时创造出了富有创意且对个人有意义的作品。此外，组装式制作帮助不太习惯制作的家庭在该空间开始制作，同时有充分证据表明家庭遵循了工程设计流程。与普遍看法相反，组装式制作在不消除创造力和工程设计流程的情况下，为新手创客提供了重要支持，在创客空间提供的各类活动组合中应考虑纳入此类活动，以支持不同制作舒适度水平的创客。
