Norway (Makerspaces in the Early Years)

The project in Norway was undertaken with a museum and a kindergarten.Participants included (a) a team of researchers, including five educational researchers with different experience and focus but sharing a concern with the design andunderstanding of technology-enhanced spaces for learning; (b) a team of three museum curators and educators who have a specific responsibility for developing science enquiry experiences for young children in the science museum; (c) and four kindergarten educators from a kindergarten in the Oslo area, along with a group of twenty kindergarten children between 5 and 6 years old.

The participatory designprocess involved design meetings, as well as observations in the science museum and the kindergarten. In addition, interviews were conducted with museum and kindergarten educators during the process. The workshops were recorded using traditional zoom-lens cameras, as well as wide-angle action cameras, to ensure adequately capturing embodied interaction in both the design and the designed spaces.