Autumn’s finest moment in Norway! The Work-In-Progress event of MyMachine Norway. Over one hundred primary school children visited the university to test and evaluate the early prototypes made by arts and engineering students. This is the final step in the making of a concept of Dream Machines like the World-Changing-Lie-Detector, the Self-Driving-Fantasy-Transport-machine —which can prepare...
We were so busy last year that we forgot to celebrate reaching a 7 figure milestone: 💪🏼1 Million student-hours of building creative confidence! We’re now at 1.3M, which is like going to school* for 738 years. * Not just any school, but probably the most creative Dream Machine School on the planet. The MyMachine Co-Founders Filip Meuris,...
With confetti bonanza and engaging words along the way from vice-chancellor of research and interdisciplinary efforts Hans Kjetil Lysgård and deputy mayor Erik Rostoft, functioning prototypes of five new Dream Machines were revealed in Norway last week! These amazing Dream Machines are developed jointly by elementary school classes, vocational secondary classes, and engineering students and...
The whole point of MyMachine is to experience how challenging, but also wildly nice it is to create new solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration. Here’s an example from Norway. At Dahlske technical secondary school, students from Technology and Industry and students from Automation are joining forces to build the Stand-Up Machine. Mathea, Annika and Casper have made...
Creating a machine that allows you to fly is demanding. Creating a machine that allows you to fly safely is perhaps even more demanding. One of the participating primary school classes in Norway had a special day today. These 3rd graders went to the technical/vocational secondary school vg2 Treteknikk, to test whether the prototype of their...
Whoa! Testing out the mock-ups! University students at the University of Agder have hosted a Work-In-Progress event at the university. Participating primary school students visited the university to give final feedback on the elaborated proof of concepts made by the university students. Proof of Concepts of the Pirate-Pig-Wiggly-Funny-Machine, the Stand-Up-Machine, the Flying-Machine, The-Speed-Sweater, and the...
MyMachine Norway is teasing the public out in the open. Showing off Dream Machines like The Hypnosis Machine, the Party Machine and the Stand-Up Machine at this year’s Research Square in Kristiansand. These Dream Machines continue to create joy and, hopefully, the urge to create. We are excited about the new MyMachine Cycle that is...
The Norwegian newspaper Fædrelandsvennen published the article “What is relevant education in 2075?” about the work of our team from MyMachine Norway, led by Idunn Sem at the University of Agder. This article honours MyMachine Norway for elevating essential skills for students. Recently, Norway ended up at the bottom of the Nordic countries in a...
“Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts as we are starting our descent to the MyMachine Norway exhibition in Kristiansand.” Nothing short of brilliant. MyMachine Norway has launched a MyMachine world premiere: a MyMachine exhibition at Kjevik International Airport in Kristiansand. This international airport serves Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county. Over 1 million passengers per...
MyMachine Norway offers us a Sneak Peek into the transition of the MyMachine Step 2 (university level) into Step 3 (high school level)! Here’s a meeting where university students explain the concept they made to their vocational/technical high school peers. They discuss the concept and, should it be necessary, improve the design to streamline the...
Wow. The child-inventors participating in MyMachine Norway are testing early versions of their Dream Machines. This Work-In-Progress event at the university is the setup for testing the concepts made by the university students. The primary school children are here to test those concepts, from Dream Machines like the Teddy Bear Dispenser (bringing comfort), the Visionary...
Absolutely wonderful to see 100 child-inventors discover the working prototypes of their dream machines at the MyMachine Norway Exhibition 2021! Celebrating creativity. Celebrating creative confidence. The MyMachine Norway 2021 exposition of dream machines was the “please do touch”-exhibition to discover dream machines co-created by students in primary, secondary and higher education in Norway in the past...
If you are in or near Norway, we invite you to visit the MyMachine Norway 2021 exposition of dream machines! This “please do touch”-exhibition allows you to discover dream machines co-created by students in primary, secondary and higher education in Norway. You will be able to discover gems like a.o. the LOL-Surprise-Massage-Machine, the Stand-Up-The-Lux-Machine, The Toy Machine,...
MyMachine Norway is preparing the new 2021-2022 season. One of the elements in getting started is sending out this video to the university students that want to join the unique program. The video shows testimonies of MyMachine Norway alumni, students, educators, and business people. Soon we’ll be diving into new dream machine ideas from primary...
Oh! The Wake-Me-Up-In-The-Morning-By-Tilting-My-Bed-Machine! This is one of the dream machines in the making in the framework of MyMachine Norway. How wonderful to see these inventors from the primary school, visiting the technical secondary school producing their working prototype. We believe to be really on to something here… by uniting 3D-Prints, laser cutting, welding and a...
Students in technical secondary schools in Norway are building the working prototypes of the dream machines. And they are doing a fabulous job. Take a look at this example: the Surprise Massage Machine: Look at how they are testing the design principle: It’s not finished yet, but it already looks amazing. We are pretty...
Meanwhile in MyMachine Norway: students in technical secondary school are testing the main design-principle of the dream machines. Here’s two wonderful examples: the Pillow-War-Machine: and the Secret-Massage-Machine:
Warning: creative overdose in Norway right now! We are thrilled to see MyMachine Norway kick-off the new MyMachine season. University students from Agder University have entered the primary classrooms of different schools like the Øvre Slettheia skole, Tordenskjoldsgate skole and Steinerskolen. The primary school children where asked to invent and to make a drawing of their...
Last week we reported on the MyMachine Norway 2020 exhibition. Today we can share this video about it: marvellous ideas turned into brilliant, beautifully crafted working prototypes! Discover the the massage-machine, the problem-solver, the dance-machine, the all-is-possible machine and Robbe (the machine buddy who can suggest things to do when you are bored). Along the...
How marvellous to see this exhibition in Norway! What should have happened in March, luckily took place now: the final exhibition of dream machines invented and elaborated during school year 2019-2020. The participating primary school children could finally discover the dream machines they have been invented and elaborated, working together with university students and technical...
Inter-generational learning is one of the beautiful tags of MyMachine. We invite you to join these primary school children in Norway as they visit the technical/vocational secondary school to learn about the production of the working prototype of their dream machine. And there’s some pretty amazing almost finished prototypes! We can’t wait to see the...
The Agder Summit 2020 (Agdermøtet 2020) is the region’s joint celebration of Aust- and Vest-Agder becoming new Agder. 300 selected guests were invited to participate and to help create the best possible foundation for a larger and stronger region. The summit was held on 20 January 2020 and continued in a party dinner. On Tuesday,...
The University of Agder in Norway (Kristiansand) is from the very start of MyMachine Norway the leading partner of the consortium running MyMachine in Norway. Marit Wergeland Yates is dean of the Faculty of the Arts. This faculty is leading partner within the university for MyMachine Norway. The Faculty has 3 institutes: Institute for rhythmic...
MyMachine Norway has entered into agreements with 2 companies Glencore Nikkelverk and Agder Energi. The agreements worth NOK 900,000 mean that the two cornerstone companies support MyMachine, which in Norway is managed by the Center for Young Art and Culture at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Agder. This is very good for both...
After getting lots of good and useful feedback from the primary schools at the Work-In-Progress event on mockups of the Dream Machines, it was time to further develop the dream machine concepts with the skilled builders: the professional secondary students at Tangen and Kvadraturen Skole high schools. What is possible within the time-constraints, resources, expertise,...
When the university students walk away from the ideation session in the primary classroom, they start the endeavour of translating what “the client” wants into a design -taking into account the available production facilities (= the participating technical secondary schools). It happens with constant feedback-loops to the primary school children. After brainstorms on possible concepts,...
Yes! It’s that marvellous time of the year again in MyMachine Norway! University students have entered the primary class rooms to start the collaboration. The children are asked what dream machine they would want to create. They make a drawing and explain their idea to the other children in the classroom. It really is a...
Kristiansand, home to the MyMachine Norway HQ, is opening the 2019 MyMachine exhibition season today! This day marks the end of an intense collaboration of primary, secondary and higher education. And the results were astonishing! The exhibition is at display at the Kristiansand Library in downtown Kristiansand. The participating primary schools visited one by one the...
MyMachine Norway invites you to their 2019 Exhibition opening on Tuesday March 19th in Kristiansand. This is the glorious moment where all students, teachers and professors from primary, secondary and higher education that were involved in MyMachine get together to discover all working prototypes. Of course the students know the one they invented, conceptualised and...
Great example of MyMachine Norway on how STEP 3 looks like. Technical secondary school students at Treteknikk in Tangen discuss the production options for this dream machine. They concluded that it is difficult to build an entire machine in wood. In particular, the launch mechanism has proven to be difficult to construct in wood within...
What a day! What a party! All the elementary school classes that are involved in MyMachine Norway this year, have visited the university! This Work-In-Progress event is the moment where the elementary school inventors can test out early mock ups of the dream machines. Engineering students received a lot of useful feedback to improve the...
College Students learn a lot in MyMachine. Yes, there’s a lot to learn about being creative (again), about deadlines, about respecting each other’s talents, about budget restraints. Another aspect of bringing an idea to life, is to know what production facility you can work with. That’s why the university students who are translating the initial...
MyMachine Norway kicked of their 2018-2019 season with five “What is Your Dream Machine?”-sessions across 3 elementary schools: Kringsjå skole, Kristiansand International School and Karl Johan Minne Skole. To be able to witness the creative power of those young students is always a real honour. It were really very creative sessions. We can’t wait to...
Very proud to be called “Rebel With A Cause” in this article by by leading voice in education Tom Vander Ark (Getting Smart). The article explains that “Rebels are people who break rules that should be broken. They break rules that hold them and others back, and their way of rule breaking is constructive rather than destructive....
Friday June 15th in Kristiansand. 10AM. And children from the participating schools are arriving at the Kristiansand City Hall. That’s where the elaborated working prototypes are on display. As they have been working on it in the past months, they know of course their very own dream machine, but soon enough they will discover the...
We have now (and only now, which is, in hindsight, remarkable) decided to create a mailing list. We will send news about all MyMachine chapters from around the world, but we will only do that when there is something to tell. So it will not be a fixed-scheduled-newsletter every week or every month. It will...
The Technical Secondary Schools in Norway working hard to bring the dream machines to life. It’s a collaboration of students from different grades and disciplines. We are really proud of this year’s dream machines. They will, again, be inspirational and beneficial for both young children and older ones, like us, adults. The engineering students work hard...
The Work-In-Progress event of last week was a remarkable event of 100 child-inventors visiting the University of Agder to give feedback on the small-scale mock-ups, created by the university students. Read the whole story in this Norwegian newspaper: https://www.fvn.no/kultur/i/l193W7/Barnas-drommemaskiner-blir-virkelighet
This week was a remarkable one for MyMachine. It marked the very first gathering of (almost) all MyMachine coordinators from around the globe. The 2-day meeting was crucial in the further development of our global strategy. And, as always, we were not afraid to challenge ourselves. This time round with the same central assignment we give...
A very exciting day at MyMachine Norway! 100 inventor-children got to visit the University of Agder for their Work-In-Progress event. That is the moment they can discover the first small-scale mock-ups of what eventually will become their elaborated working prototypes later on this year! It gives them again the opportunity to give feedback to the...
Today marked a special day in Norway. The very first MyMachine Exhibition opened in Kristiansand. 160 students from elementary classrooms came to the Kilden Exhibition room to discover the 4 working dream machines: The Rainbow-Machine, The Icecream-Machine, The Doing-Anything-Machine and the Bird-Cleaning-Machine. The results were stunning and the shared experiences were profound. Teachers, professors, students,...
MyMachine Norway is announcing their very first Final Exhibition. This event will take place on June 19th 2017 at the Kilden Theater and Concerthall in Kristiansand. 4 elaborated working prototypes of dream machines will be on display. The result of more than 75 creative people that co-created the dream machines. We are very much looking...
This is very exciting for as now it’s really happening: here they are: MyMachine Norway has just started! Check out their great website www.mymachine.no to discover the first dream machines being built ! They had their very first visit in the Elementary classroom where children started drawing their dream machines! We can’t wait to hear more...
We’re very proud to announce yet again, that MyMachine is becoming a bit bigger. A couple of weeks ago, the Cultiva Foundation has signed the MyMachine Norway License. Cultiva Foundation is honored to introduce MyMachine in Norway. Cultiva was established 6 December 2000 by the Municipality of Kristiansand to ensure that a portion of the profits made from...
