Blog
Author: Karen
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We were pretty excited when Curtin Makers was asked to participate in the Curtin Creative Festival, which was held from 20-22 October. Facilitated by Park’d @ Curtin and Future Common the Festival had a range of activities running over three days, from book binding, puzzle building, spaceship construction, live art,...
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Humans of Curtin recently featured Curtin Library’s Marie Clarke, who did a wonderful job of conveying what our Library Makerspace is all about. Thanks Marie! http://curtinuniversity.tumblr.com/post/132514488003/the-library-makerspace-is-a-place-where-people
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The Curtin Library Makerspace was a hive of activity on the 14th October as plain white t-shirts were transformed into colourful artistic creations using spray paints and stencils, fabric markers and rubbing alcohol, buttons, glitter and much more. The occasion was Loud Shirt Day, when Curtin Library joined other areas...
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Light Makers @ Your Library is a National Science Week public makerspace event being held at Curtin Library. Throughout the week we are running free sessions and workshops which involving making neat things to do with light. Join us to make, tinker, experiment, learn – and most of all, have...
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A makerspace is a collaborative learning environment where people come together to share materials, tools, equipment, skills and knowledge, and to be involved in hands on activities – the possibilities of which are endless – where they learn through experiment, play and creativity. While public libraries have been at the...
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In March this year Curtin Library ran a week-long ‘pop-up’ makerspace which kick-started a project to establish a more permanent makerspace in the library. Initially, we intended to make a small contribution to our institution’s annual Festival of Learning, by borrowing a 3D printer and 3D scanner, setting them up...