The Makers Collaborative

STEAM Makerspaces. Educational Aids. Hands-on Learning. Course Design. We create relatable and engaging learning experiences accessible to all.

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Thank you @SenSubhadrika for coming to our zine-making workshop and covering our initiative of using zines as a medium of creative learning and communication so comprehensively.

[My.Kolkata @TT_My_Kolkata]

Wouldn't it be fun to make your magazines? Step into the world of zines to feel the vibrance of creative communication.

Read more: https://t.co/J7IcuuuFGo

@themakerscollab @oxfordbookstore

#Zine #Magazine #ArtAndCraft #Workshop #ArtWorkshop #Kolkata #MyKolkata #TheTelegraph

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

@GeorgePointon_ @threadreaderapp unroll

[PlacemakingX @PlacemakingX]

The #GlobalPlacemakingSummit website is now up!: https://t.co/DQATFlaQm4

Gather with the world's #placemaking leaders in Mexico City from November 1st-5th, 2023, and shape the future of the movement.

[Swati Mishra @itaws_swati]

I wrote about an old museum on International Museum Day.
What makes a museum welcoming & inclusive to different kinds of visitors?
The Bengali word for museum is ‘jadughor’ meaning ‘house of wonder’. 
18th May was #InternationalMuseumDay
https://t.co/O1gtHxRmY3

[PlacemakingX @PlacemakingX]

#PlacemakingForPeacemaking conversation led by @Placemaking_In, launching their regional hub: #PlacemakingIndiaNorthEast.

@themakerscollab @mythinkcity @Placemaking_pk #PlacemakingIndia

[PlacemakingX @PlacemakingX]

#PlacemakingIndia's inspiring report from their extraordinary #PlacemakingWeekIndia2022 is now available: https://t.co/OEsDrx1RNk Thanks to @Placemaking_In @albeli, @prathimamanohar, @theurbanvision, @itaws_swati of @themakerscollab, #PKDas of @CitiesQuestion...

#PlacemakingAsia

[Swati Mishra @itaws_swati]

"Indian schooling system produces an exceptional, soul crushing conformity.. the socialisation of students, the transmission of values happen not so much via the curriculum as it does through the system of rewards and punishment embedded in the structure of schooling" Imp read.

[Ethics in Bricks @EthicsInBricks]

"Education isn't something you can finish."
- Isaac Asimov

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Lynda Barry, 66, American cartoonist, author, and teacher on play, problem-solving in adults, and developing a relationship to one’s hands.

[Swati Mishra @itaws_swati]

Lynda Barry: “a huge difference over the last few years in the people I work with: They don’t have a big relationship to their hands. I’ve had to show them how to cut a circle out of paper... and they’re like, “What?!”
https://t.co/yE4jCuGcoG

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Notes on Embedding Real-life Problem Solving into the Curriculum: Trees for Mitigating Climate Change
by @itaws_swati
#climatechange #problemsolving #curriculumdesign #teacherpd
https://t.co/yj5VZpfjwD

[Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta @readingkafka]

Anganwadi child tries her hand at a Rubik cube. Pic from a rural library in Sirsi. #kidsinlibraries

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Hexagonal packing in nature. #closestpacking Where else have you seen a hexagonal pack? #scienceineverydaylife

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Do we still consider freedom of speech & thought, tolerance for difference of opinion, a scientific temper, secularism, values to pursue or a majoritarian authoritarianism that is rampant today?
#thoughtstoponder #indianIndependenceDay #AzaadiMubarak

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

As we celebrate 75th Anniversary of India's Independence let us reflect on the Vision of our Founding Fathers who stood for a humanitarian nationalism, not parochial and narrow, communal or religious fundamentalism that is evident worldwide today. #AzaadiMubarak

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

The first tribal President of India: ‘Droupadi was not my original name’, brings back painful historical memories to Adivasi communities, the earliest inhabitants of this country. @PARInetwork
https://t.co/8p7jG0nxEs
यह किसका नाम है? (Whose name is this?) by Jacinta Kerketta

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Can be helpful in learning, at schools, where so much importance is placed on how well you memorise rather than understand.
Take a topic & visually map all that you know, have learned, including the gaps in your knowledge. Use words, visuals both. Refine & retain.
@itaws_swati

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Visual mapping/mind mapping/doodling/sketching as a form of thinking, as part of visual literacy.

Mind mapping can help to form associations and develop an idea, and does NOT have to be limited to an artistic endeavour. In this sense, it can be practised by anyone.

[Swati Mishra @itaws_swati]

The preface to @DoodleRev calls all Revolutionaries (aka readers of the world) to make use of everything that books have to offer!
Download < print on an A4 sheet < fold into a minizine @SunniBrown @themakerscollab
https://t.co/3IUV4bSqF4

[Swati Mishra @itaws_swati]

With a tip of the hat to @SunniBrown & the incredible @DoodleRev, here is a mini-zine on Uses of Books - The Real and the Imaginary. @themakerscollab
Here is a free to download printable version: https://t.co/3IUV4bSqF4

[Swati Mishra @itaws_swati]

Read about the waste recycling sector, and the invisibilzed lives behind it, through the story of Bala https://t.co/8MSCuzwzGL
by
@megha_raha

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Making use of this versatile medium to communicate social issues, in regional languages, foster personal expression, community building, and sharing at the grassroots is next on the cards. #internationalzinemonth2022

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

Thank you @SenSubhadrika for coming to our zine-making workshop and covering our initiative of using zines as a medium of creative learning and communication so comprehensively.

[My.Kolkata @TT_My_Kolkata]

Wouldn't it be fun to make your magazines? Step into the world of zines to feel the vibrance of creative communication.

Read more: https://t.co/J7IcuuuFGo

@themakerscollab @oxfordbookstore

#Zine #Magazine #ArtAndCraft #Workshop #ArtWorkshop #Kolkata #MyKolkata #TheTelegraph

[The Makers Collaborative @themakerscollab]

While zines have been around for ages and are popular among a small section of artists and enthusiasts, we're trying to get minizines (easiest to share, immersive making-learning experience) to formal and non formal schools.