Experience Hands-On Innovation with The PlayLab Bus: A Journey of Frugal Creativity and Co-Creation
The PlayLab Bus is a product of the STEMBucket © program that transforms a discarded school bus into a playful-STEM lab for young learners to explore STEM subjects and turn STEM knowledge into practical applications. This bus acts as a platform for innovation, where innovators from different disciplines can bring their practical innovations to the table and promote self-sustainability, especially in rural areas. The PlayLab Bus embraces the concept of frugality, promoting sustainability awareness by repurposing used items for new purposes.
Art and Creativity
Artists in residency programs can explore new work environments with new challenges and create conceptual artwork through the mural-making project. The unique requirements of the PlayLab Bus provide an opportunity for artists to critically solve design and technical challenges and present their ideas professionally.
The modular solar power system uses flexible solar panels and a small footprint, allowing seamless integration without occupying much physical space. The pure DC power supply architecture enables a more efficient use of solar panels, providing power for appliances such as laptops, smart devices, projectors, and network/WiFi equipment. This ensures self-sustained electricity even when the bus moves to off-grid areas.
Self-Sustained Water Supply
The PlayLab Bus has a micro-scale rainwater harvesting system that collects water directly from the roof and stores it within the bus for consumption. The system is tailored to enable a self-sustaining clean water supply whenever the bus moves to rural areas. The two-stage water tank design allows for water reservation and cleaning, with water being filtered and solar-pumped into the bus.
Hotspot and Server on the Move
The PlayLab Bus serves as an internet gateway wherever it is located, closing the digital divide. It provides a virtual space for interaction, learning, exploration, and even co-working, with services like digital libraries, education portals, virtual laboratories, and training sessions through gamification to foster students’ interest in STEM subjects. The virtual spaces also include the CreativeCulture website, social media (Facebook and Twitter), and YouTube content (CreativeCulture TV).
The PlayLab Bus is designed for teachers and students of STEM, artists in residency, research scientists in ICT, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Environmental, Interior Architecture, Creative Arts, and academics from the 8 faculties at UNIMAS and PPAU.
The PlayLab Bus is a cutting-edge mobile platform that promotes frugality, creativity, and science to encourage strategic thinking and innovative solutions. A transdisciplinary collaboration between the sciences and arts, the bus promotes and advances STEM and sustainability. With self-sufficient water and electricity, purposeful arts with murals, a community-based research incubator, and a portable ICT hotspot, the PlayLab Bus exemplifies sustainable elements in action.
Main Design and Delivery
- Concept The design concept of the PlayLab Bus is to create a platform for multi-disciplinary collaboration and co-creation of solutions, embracing frugality and playfulness.
- Playful and Frugal The PlayLab Bus is both playful and frugal, promoting experiential learning through play and using the principles of reuse and repurpose to promote innovation.
Co-creation Co-creation is at the heart of the PlayLab Bus, promoting design thinking, participatory action research, and collaboration. It builds trust, creates a sense of belonging and ownership, and encourages an inclusive process from individual to collective and local to global.
"Mfano wa ""Msingi wa Uvumbuzi wa Play"" ni ""Msingi wa Uvumbuzi wa Play"" na ""Msingi wa Uvumbuzi wa Play"" ni ""Msingi wa Uvumbuzi wa Play"" na ""Msingi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi"" ni ""Msingi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi wa Uvumbuzi.""" Basi hili linafanya kazi kama jukwaa la uvumbuzi, ambapo wavumbuzi kutoka taaluma tofauti wanaweza kuleta uvumbuzi wao wa vitendo kwenye meza na kukuza kujitunza, haswa katika maeneo ya vijijini. The PlayLab Bus inashikilia dhana ya ukarimu, kukuza ufahamu wa uendelevu kwa kutumia vitu vilivyotumiwa kwa madhumuni mapya. Wasanii katika mipango ya makazi wanaweza kuchunguza mazingira mapya ya kazi na changamoto mpya na kuunda kazi ya sanaa ya dhana kupitia mradi wa kutengeneza mural. Mahitaji ya kipekee ya PlayLab Bus hutoa fursa kwa wasanii kutatua kwa ukali kubuni na changamoto za kiufundi na kuwasilisha mawazo yao kitaaluma. Mfumo wa nishati ya jua ya modular hutumia paneli za jua zenye kubadilika na alama ndogo, ikiruhusu ushirikiano wa bila mshono bila kuchukua nafasi nyingi ya kimwili. "Ujenzi wa usambazaji wa umeme wa DC safi unawezesha matumizi bora ya paneli za jua, kutoa nguvu kwa vifaa kama vile kompyuta ndogo, vifaa vya akili, projectors, na vifaa vya mtandao au WiFi. """ Hii inahakikisha umeme wa kujitegemea hata wakati basi inahamia maeneo ya nje ya gridi. Basi la PlayLab ina mfumo mdogo wa kukusanya maji ya mvua ambayo hukusanya maji moja kwa moja kutoka paa na kuhifadhi ndani ya basi kwa matumizi. Mfumo huo umebuniwa ili kuwezesha ugavi wa maji safi ya kujitegemea wakati wowote basi linapotembea kwenda maeneo ya vijijini. Bomba la maji la hatua mbili linahakikisha kuhifadhi na kusafisha maji, na maji hufanyiwa uchujaji na kupumua kwa jua ndani ya basi. Hotspot na Server juu ya Move PlayLab Bus hutumika kama mlango wa mtandao popote ilipo, kufunga mgawanyiko wa dijiti. Inatoa nafasi ya kawaida ya mwingiliano, kujifunza, kuchunguza, na hata kufanya kazi pamoja, na huduma kama maktaba za dijiti, milango ya elimu, maabara halisi, na vikao vya mafunzo kupitia gamification kukuza maslahi ya wanafunzi katika masomo ya STEM. Maeneo ya virtual pia ni pamoja na tovuti ya CreativeCulture, vyombo vya habari vya kijamii (Facebook na Twitter), na maudhui ya YouTube (CreativeCulture TV). PlayLab Bus ni kwa ajili ya walimu na wanafunzi wa STEM, wasanii katika makazi, watafiti wa utafiti katika ICT, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Environmental, Interior Architecture, Creative Arts, na wasomi kutoka vyuo vikuu 8 katika UNIMAS na PUA. PlayLab Bus ni jukwaa la hali ya juu la rununu ambalo huendeleza ukarimu, ubunifu, na sayansi ili kuhamasisha mawazo ya kimkakati na suluhisho za ubunifu. Pamoja na ushirikiano wa kitaaluma na sanaa, basi hiyo inakuza na kuendeleza STEM na uendelevu. Pamoja na maji ya kujitegemea na umeme, sanaa yenye kusudi na michoro ya ukuta, incubator ya utafiti wa jamii, na hotspot ya ICT ya kubeba, PlayLab Bus inaonyesha vipengele vya kudumu katika hatua. Kubuni na Utoaji - Dhana Dhana ya kubuni ya PlayLab Bus ni kuunda jukwaa la ushirikiano wa taaluma nyingi na uundaji wa suluhisho, kukumbatia ukarimu na uchezaji. - Playful na Frugal The PlayLab Bus ni wote playful na frugal, kukuza kujifunza uzoefu kupitia kucheza na kutumia kanuni ya matumizi ya tena na repurpose kukuza ubunifu. Co-kuunda Co-kuunda ni katika moyo wa PlayLab Bus, kukuza kubuni kufikiri, ushirikiano utafiti wa hatua, na ushirikiano. Inajenga uaminifu, huunda hisia ya kuwa na mali na umiliki, na inahimiza mchakato wa kujumuisha kutoka kwa mtu binafsi hadi kwa pamoja na kutoka kwa eneo hadi kwa ulimwengu.