Science centres and media libraries: a (co)creative duo

For all the French tinkerers working at the crossroads of science, knowledge, and social mediation!

🎓 Don’t miss this upcoming training day!
📅 June 10, from 9:00 to 12:00
📍 Médiathèque Départementale de Seine-et-Marne, Le Mée-sur-Seine (FR)

Discover creative, ready-to-use science & library workshops co-designed for and with underserved adult audiences (e.g. social isolation, precarious situations, detainees…)

🛠️ Field-tested activities from across Europe, with a focus on inclusion, co-creation and crossing science with books

Background

Since October 2023, the departmental media library has been involved in the European TinkerLib project coordinated by the TRACES association, which aims to cross-median practices between libraries and science centres.

This morning is the culmination of this and aims to discover all the challenges of this project and to experiment together.

Objective

• Know the European project Tinkerlib, its challenges and its tools.
• Appreciate co-construction with prevented audiences.
• Raise awareness of partnership issues between science centres and library.
• Discover tools for mediating scientific and digital culture.  

Rolled

• Presentation of the Tinkerlib project.
• Experimentation of two workshops co-created as part of the Tinkerlib project.
• Round table: Prisons for Integration and Probation (SPIP), Association Traces, Departmental Audiovisual Library 77: How to co-build a scientific project with a public in detention?
• Presentation of mediation tools: methodological kit, guide to inclusive good practice, workshop kit.

Speakers

• TRACES Association.
• Cultural Coordinator of the Prison Service for Integration and Probation (SPIP).
• Departmental Audiovisual Library of Seine-et-Marne.

👉 More info & registration
A European project coordinated by TRACES: www.museoscienza.it/tinkering-europe/