Maker Ed

Multigen STEM Makerspaces

Developing and researching a sustainable model for multigenerational making and learning that can support a STEM career trajectory

The Multigen Makers project is a collaboration with residents from Bayview Towers, a 200-unit affordable housing complex in Connecticut. Through a design-based research approach with iterative cycles of co-design, the project will develop and research a sustainable model for multigenerational making and learning that build the skills and dispositions that can support a STEM career trajectory.

The Multigen Makers Playbook provides a guide for other affordable housing communities on how to co-create a makerspace program of their own. Playbook chapters include:

• Introduction
• Co-Designing with the Community
• Setting up the Makerspace
• Running the Makerspace
• Designing Activities & Programming
• Sustaining the Makerspace