Duration: 3 hours
Age: 4th-6th grades
Price: NIS 54 per student
The concept of the “cabinet of curiosities” developed in the seventeenth century and described a collection room that people filled with all manner of weird and wonderful objects. It was where all things mysterious and interesting could be encountered. Our cabinet is a wooden box in and above which we design and build our cabinet of curiosities. The technical-design basis of the cabinet of curiosities is automata (wooden toys in which one movement produces a variety of motions). In the workshop the children will assemble personal cabinets of curiosity made from different moving objects that they will design with the aid of a simple computer program, and cut with a laser cutting machine and other means.
The Workshop
Explanation on the workshop, the work process, and development of the concept of the “cabinet of curiosities” in a discussion with the participants.
Selecting and arranging objects that will be part of the cabinet with the aid of a computer program.
Cutting the parts with a laser cutting machine.
Assembling the parts into a motion mechanism built from a readymade wood kit.
Designing the cabinet of curiosities with additional materials and objects.
Conclusion of the workshop.
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