STEAMWORKS

5Hoek for Newcomers spring 2021

5hoek for Newcomers is a unique intergenerational project. It is a challenging form of "Digital Storytelling" in which pupils of the OKAN* school Institute Anneessens Funck (IAF) are stimulated to meet residents of care centres via interview techniques (audio and image).  The interviews will be premiered during a festivity in the care centre in the presence of residents and creators. This is an event that focuses on the feeling of solidarity and mutual understanding.
Contacts with candidate care centres are facilitated by the IAF's learning and working centre.
* OKAN stands for Reception Class for Foreign Language Newcomers. It is a school specifically aimed at 12-plussers who have recently arrived in Belgium and who do not - or insufficiently - master the Dutch language to enter regular education.

SKILLSLAB/digital storytelling for refugees summer 2020

SkillsLab is a project that aims to offer newcomers and unaccompanied minor refugees a solid step towards digital literacy. SkillsLab's workshops are at the heart of the project and should provide participants with a basis for their further school and professional careers. Finally, with SkillsLab we want to lead participants to technical and scientific directions and make technical professions more attractive. We are convinced that, in the light of technological progress, people with a STEM profile and the desire for lifelong learning can make a difference in the labour market.

D-Art - Digital Art  2019/20

D-Art (Digital Art) focuses on learning youngsters to process all kinds of data into an artistic work (coding). This data is captured in their living environment with self-designed devices and / or supplied by (government) services of all kinds.
By coding these data, they appear in a work of art, in the form of colorful lines, light objects, soundscapes, 3D models ....With this method young people better understand the relevance of coding.

The works can be admired in the participating school Sint Lucas Brussels from March 18th until the 25th of March 2020.

5-HOEK ism stad Brussel

5hoek.brussels is a contemporary form of "Digital Storytelling" in which young people explore the urban space using interview techniques and different cameras. It is a cross-medial project. The result are short street interviews that can be consulted on location using smartphone and QR codes.This project is funded by the city of Brussels and is an initiative of the aldermen responsable for "Nederlandstalige aangelegenheden".

WAQ ZOMERKAMP 2019

Days of playful learning, designing and building during the last week of the summer holidays. This year it wil be a five-day construction week for pupils living in the WijkAntennedeQuartier (WAQ) in Molenbeek. We gladly invited you at the closing event  (@15u00) on Friday 30th of August 2019 in the Liverpoolstraat!

PARCOURS KANAL

Project started in 2019.

During the Parcours KANAL, young people will scan the neighbourhood in downtown Brussels and capture street ART with 360 ° camera's (FaceBook link). Technicians and artists provide the guidance. Participants assemble the images into 360 ° videos. Eventually all video will be brought together in an online platform.We start working with youngsters in March 2019.

ALFABETA

THEATERPRODUCTIE

2018

Alfabeta is a workplace for contemporary theater integrating  science, technology and art.
Alfabeta is a mix of art and poetry (α) with authentic scientific expertise and innovative technology (β). In 2018 we organized the premiere of the "Slinger Fuga", a performance about the work of Huygens/Galileo. During the I LOVE SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2019 we  presented the "Newton machine". An experimental production based upon the laws of gravity described by Isaac Newton.

KONINGIN MATHILDE FONDS/2015

A project proposal to make the Fablab Brussels attractive for girls in secondary school. 

Extra attention was paid to girls in economically and socially vulnerable situations. It was a follow-up program for the girls who already participated in the Technogrieten.

luchtvaartbende/2010

A summerkamp aiming at young people that focuses on aerospace.

Technology, scientific principles and job opportunities were central.

Amongst other things, a visit to the cargo and passenger hall of Zaventem was on the program. The week was festively concluded with the launch of  home-made gunpowder packed rockets.

TALENT WERKT/Muntpunt

2014

A workshop in October 2014 Muntpunt - Brussels Metropolitan Library. The assignment was: imagine an onomatopoeia and use a laser cutter, 3D printing and stop motion technique to bring your sound to life ...

For children 12 years and under. 

TECHNOGRIETEN/since 2013, 2014 and 2015

This after school STEAM activity was exclusive for girls (up to 12 years). The ateliers involved handling tools, understanding technical principles, such as levers and gears, and discovering technology in our daily lives. The workshops focused on the discovery of their own talents and learning new digital skills.

MORRES MAKERSPACE

A series of youth workshops linked to design and development in collaboration with the mobile fablab (fabrication laboratory) STEAMachine. The goal is to give children and their parents an authentic experience in the Morres furniture&lifestyle

shopping center. We had our first session in October 2018.