encourager la coopération entre les écoles et les populations locales pour qu’ils s’engagent dans des projets et s’investissent dans leurs quartiers ; construire des connexions entre les familles et les établissements scolaires en leur permettant d’exprimer leurs besoins actuels; soutenir des projets et des solutions qui répondent à ces besoins et les partager en les documentant.
les populations locales dans le but de montrer les opportunités offertes par les FabLabs, le bricolage et l’apprentissage actif, telles que la motivation d’apprendre et l’autonomisation ; inspirer les initiatives locales pour les projets pluridisciplinaires ; stimuler l’engagement dans une citoyenneté active pour des publics de tout âge.
Ingénierie
de projet
La connaissance des publics
Le Fab Lab
Notre réseau professionnel
Les sciences
et technologies
Responsable Médiation et Publics,
Responsable du Projet OSHub
Fab facilitateur, Médiateur Casemate Nomade,
Chargé de projet OSHub
OSHub-FR works as a community hub that supports teachers and students developing new practices and projects using digital fabrication tools, to improve science and technology teaching, empower student’s agency in their communities and promote connections and collaborations between local partners and schools.
Target public:
Teachers and students, particularly from Villeneuve, a low socio-economic background neighbourhood from Grenoble.
OSHub-FR is a collaboration between La Casemate – CCSTI Grenoble and the third place La Machinerie located at Villeneuve, a low socio-economic background neighbourhood from Grenoble. La Machinerie works as a concierge and meeting place in the heart of the neighbourhood, where it hosts an open space for meeting and learning by doing, promoting the exchange of know-how and local initiatives by residents and actors from the neighbourhood (DIY, repair, homemade, reuse, digital, etc.). In addition, it provides access to several digital fabrication tools, such as 3D printers or laser cutters, allowing to develop and prototype projects and to create all kinds of objects.
As such, the collaboration between La Casemate and La Machinerie works as an effective synergy, where La Machinerie brings the space and mindset for community collaboration, and La Casemate the open science framework, tools and resources, thus creating the conditions to develop projects based on relevant issues together with the local inhabitants (youngsters, families, associations, etc.), by using a multidisciplinary STEAM approach and digital fabrication skills and tools. Furthermore, this participatory space also provides training and resources for educators, and organises workshops, meetings and events, bringing together the different kinds of local actors.
The role of OSHub-FR is to promote teacher’s autonomy and skills that allow them to:
- Develop and implement a project-based learning approach in a Fab Lab, creating opportunities for their students to explore, invent and transform abstract ideas into tangible objects by using digital technology;
- Create new resources and tools that can be easily shared, adapted and used by the teacher community.
For that, OSHub-FR uses a combination of approaches, which comprise intensive training programs for teachers and/or in-class follow-up sessions.
To help build a community of teachers working on open science projects in Fab Labs, OSHub-FR organised teacher training sessions to illustrate the potential of a Fab Lab for them and their students. Teachers worked together to make game kits intended to carry out mathematical activities with their classes. In addition, OSHub-FR also supports teachers integrating a project-based learning approach in a Fab Lab together with their own class and organises maker workshops for children.
Read more
Resource pack to support teachers to use the
Fab Lab to prototype the design of tools to teach mathematics to children aged between three and eleven years, and to test out how to use these tools in the classroom.
Discover air and its properties and learn how
to make your own kite with recycled materials and tools in a Fab Lab.
A set of guidelines on how to establish a small Fab Lab / Tinkering Lab, including information about materials, safety and troubleshooting, based on the experience of OSHub-FR.
