Fabrik² – Creativity Factory - Animated activity

Workshop details

The Montréal Science Centre celebrates Montreality with four new creative challenges inspired by famous Montreal landmarks.

Fabrik² is a lab space that puts creativity to the test by inviting young visitors to invent and assemble all sorts of objects using an approach known as tinkering. Starting with a challenge from a science educator, visitors dream up and engineer solutions using a collection of materials and odds and ends.

Digging for ideas, designing solutions, testing and experimenting, making mistakes, trying again … it’s all part of the fun!

Activities

Fabrik² and the Tinkering Approach

Tinkering is designed to stimulate creativity and inventiveness through discovery, play, and assembly work using all sorts of objects, materials, and real-world tools. The Science Centre actively engages with the Tinkering Lab approach in Fabrik’s “creativity factory,” a space where young visitors approach a challenge and look for solutions by experimenting using trial-and-error.

Links with the progression of learning

The tinkering approach involves:

• Rapid prototyping
• Successive trial-and-error where making mistakes is encouraged
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Open-ended, unrestricted solution-seeking
• Fun and non-competitive teamwork
• Learning new principles through experimentation

Young people with special needs

Fabrik² is an accessible exhibition that particularly appeals to visitors with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disabilities or reduced mobility. All challenges are designed to meet the needs of these visitors thanks to a multisensory approach and a series of adaptations. To learn more, consult the Science Centre’s permanent exhibitions visit planning guide, developed for those accompanying visitors with special needs.