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illustrations by Tarik Raiss and Beatriz Quadros.

ALQUIMÉTRICOS

OERs are not always textbooks!

This presentation is openly licensed with a CC BY 4.0 International License

Your childhood toys shape who you are, personally, academically, and professionally

STEAM toys are the best way to learn-while-playing tech and science, but commercial mainstream brands rule the market and access is not guaranteed, mainly in the Global South. This leads to gender, racial and social career bias.

We committed to developing an affordable, open and hackeable educational toy, radically lowering the entry barrier

Five years ago this movement started and now it’s kind of a bigger-than-ourselves thing

• Alquimétricos is movement, an international, interdisciplinary and collaborative network for the design, production and dissemination of affordable educational technologies.
• We develop educational toys of low cost and high effectiveness that bring the STEAM disciplines and the DIY culture to the public in an intuitive, simple and fun way.
• Our technical designs, content, sustainability model and branding are open-source and hackeable. We believe that this is a strategy that democratizes knowledge and emancipates communities.
• We are a team of 2 partners, 10 close collaborators and a community of more than 60 casual participants including educators, makers, artists, designers, communicators, translators, and more..

“Toys should be free for the children and for the planet”

photo by Léo Melo

• Brazilian operation since April 2016
• Facilitators trained at 12 cities around the world
• 1.000 Trained teachers
• 11.000 Children played with Alquimétricos
• 150 workshops and courses given

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Alquimétricos hubs active in 4 cities

• Buenos Aires
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo
• Lisbon

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• Ativities (map legends)
• Partnerships, facilitators and representatives
• Workshops and courses
• Artistic interventions
• Congresses and presentations
• Visits

Map created by Fernando Daguanno at Google Maps

Partnerships

Prizes

Lectured at

photo by Léo Melo

Program details

“Alquimétricos - Toys for Quarantine” is a platform that provides a set of tutorials and methodologies to build STEAM toys, creative, challenging, playful, to make at home.

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Aimed at students, teachers and families not exclusively but focused on vulnerable communities affected by COVID19 pandemic lockdown.

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This is our proposal for immediate action on a question that has become even more evident: how to create affordable and highly impactful solutions in remote maker education?

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The platform offers simple designs and methodologies, which allow the use of recycled materials or found in supermarkets, such as barbecue sticks, creating an accessible option for the general public.

design by Tatiana Tabak

videos by Fernando Daguanno

photo by Léo Melo

photo by Léo Melo

OER Design

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• 6 prototyped units out of 30 planned can be accessed via a working alpha version available at http://alquimetricos.com/cursos/alquimetricos101/
• Google Drive repository including texts, full course syllabus, open graphic guides, editable videos and legacy materials can be downloaded.
• Github technical repository including blueprints, code, project roadmap, and collaborative https://github.com/Open-Hardware-Leaders/Alquimetricos/
• A Crowdfunding campaign achieved the first round’s goal and it’s going for optimal funding until August 22rd
• Collaborators’ call: The project accepts new participants through http://alquimetricos.com/collaborators-call/

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Collaborative and open by design 🖤

https://alquimetricos.com/halldelafama/

https://alquimetricos.com/collaborators-call/

Credits

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• Fernando Daguanno (original idea, instructional design, photo and video)
• Tatiana Tabak (instructional, video and graphic design)
• Rudá Cordaro (video)
• The Connective collective (communication)
• Tarik Raiss (madNess) and Beatriz Quadros (illustration)
• Marcela Basch and Paula Martini (communication advisors)
• Original work based upon previous developed content in collaboration with Sebastián Leonhardt and supervised by MIT Media Labs’ Lifelong Kindergarten fellowship
• Inspired in Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic structures and Seymour Papert’s constructionism principles.
• Supported by the Creative Commons Global Network Community Activities Fund

photo by Fernando Daguanno

info@alquimetricos.com

(21) 99395-0382

Rua Teotônio Regadas 26,

Lapa, Rio de Janeiro.

CEP.: 20021360

@alquimetricos

alquimetricos.com

Thanks!

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@alquimetricos

photo from Gael by Maíra Suarez