Make It Lab – Designing Creativities s a special topics course developed expressly to focus making, AND to co-produce IF LABs, a maker festival in celebration of the 10th year of the Program of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE). This class is offered for credit for the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise minor at Wake Forest University and taught by Lynn Book, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance and Associate Director, ICE.
In addition to help plan and run the IF Labs maker festival, students develop projects around acts of making, read and discuss theory and current writing on maker trends and movements and participate in sense exercises and design and create projects with community partner, Margaret Norfleet Neff, inspiring area entrepreneur and founder of good food ventures Beta Verde and Cobblestone Farmers Market.
One of the first tasks of the class was to select 5 items from their back-packs or bags and construct a thing, product, system, or scenario that might have a marked impact on the future of the world – at whatever scale imagined.
For homework, students elaborated the process according to the following instructions:
1) Select 5 objects from your room.
2) 5 objects that belong to someone else.
3) 5 objects selected from natural environments.
Check out some of the cool creations the students built!
Lauren Gilvar
Alex Lyons
Elizabeth Lane
Kristen Merlo
Beck Miller
In addition to help plan and run the IF Labs maker festival, students develop projects around acts of making, read and discuss theory and current writing on maker trends and movements and participate in sense exercises and design and create projects with community partner, Margaret Norfleet Neff, inspiring area entrepreneur and founder of good food ventures Beta Verde and Cobblestone Farmers Market.
One of the first tasks of the class was to select 5 items from their back-packs or bags and construct a thing, product, system, or scenario that might have a marked impact on the future of the world – at whatever scale imagined.
For homework, students elaborated the process according to the following instructions:
1) Select 5 objects from your room.
2) 5 objects that belong to someone else.
3) 5 objects selected from natural environments.
Check out some of the cool creations the students built!
Lauren Gilvar
Alex Lyons
Elizabeth Lane
Kristen Merlo
Beck Miller