The LEGO Idea Studio
The LEGO® Idea Studio is an applied research lab that explores and designs encounters with powerful ideas in play experiences to build our understanding of the LEGO idea and role creativity plays in the development of engaged lifelong learners.
"With the LEGO bricks we can build anything we can possibly imagine as if they were glued and yet they can easily be taken apart and reconfigured into a new idea. When we do this we are not only creating, but also evaluating, reflecting and recreating to achieve new possibilities. We learn through play in a self-motivated and fun way."
The LEGO® Idea
Together with the partners listed below, the LEGO Idea Studio does applied research on physical/digital play and learning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Media Lab
For the past 30 years, the LEGO Group and the MIT Media Lab have collaborated on projects based on a shared passion for learning through play. Today, the LEGO Foundation and the Lifelong Kindergarten Group continue this tradition by pioneering new technologies and activities to engage children in playful and creative learning experiences.
Reggio Children Foundation
Reggio Children Foundation
The Reggio Children Foundation supports research that focuses on the relationship between pedagogy and architecture, the enhancement of training and experience exchanges between teachers from different national and international contexts, and the opportunities which arise from the use of new technologies, as well as the development of new forms of solidarity through research.
Exploratorium: The Tinkering Studio
The Tinkering Studio
Known by museums and makers around the world, the Tinkering Studio researches and publishes methods for creating and facilitating constructionist learning experiences where learners (students and educators alike) create personally meaningful projects, tinkering in new ways with familiar materials; thinking with their hands to create a new framework for understanding learning.
