• Think Maker Space exhibits
  • Think Maker Space exhibits
  • Think Maker Space exhibits
  • Think Maker Space exhibits
  • Think Maker Space exhibits
Think Maker Space
Science North
Sudbury, Ontario

When Science North began a comprehensive makeover of its popular interactive physical science exhibits, they turned to Main Street Design. A place to Tinker, Hack, Innovate, Network and Know, THINK is designed to facilitate open-ended learning experiences, offering an integrated suite of guided and free-choice activities that invite guests to investigate scientific principles, create prototypes, and invent and test solutions to problems using a wide range of basic and cutting edge techniques.

Visitors can explore the properties of magnetic materials using ferrofluids, invent their own musical instruments, create beautiful large-scale tessellated patterns, and construct simple electrical circuits, among many other activities. The physical and graphical environment for THINK is lively and bright, employing familiar materials in unexpected and innovative ways. At a fundamental level THINK is not an “exhibition” at all, in any traditional sense. it is a living laboratory of concepts and ideas equipped with simple and sophisticated tools and furnished with a broad inventory of materials, pieces, and parts.

 

Project Partners

Science North
audiovisual and multimedia
Creative Machines
interactive design and fabrication
Kubic Maltbie
exhibit fabrication
Hands On! Studio
exhibit design

Awards

Best Exhibit - Large Institution, 2020
Canadian Association of Science Centres