December 9, 2024
Innovation involves dreaming and experimenting
When Innovation Studies took shape in 2016-2017, PLU’s students and faculty dreamed together, establishing both an Innovation Studies minor and a student-led Makerspace on the ground floor of Hinderlie Hall.
The second idea requires some explanation, because a change is coming.
Eight years ago, Hinderlie residents agreed to loan their ground floor lounge to the Innovation Studies program for a Makerspace experiment, a cooperative idea that borrowed concepts from urban design, high-tech labs, digital classrooms, and kindergarten play spaces.
Real-world innovation work requires collaboration and the creative use of new materials. (Prof. Halvorson, center)
PLU’s idea was to supply simple tools and creative materials to students at no charge, and let visitors build anything they wanted, for class projects or…
