Our Vision

makerspace UBCO brings together students, faculty, and staff to incubate, design, prototype and fabricate ideas.

Philosophy

The makerspace UBCO philosophy is grounded on six main pillars:

    1. The makerspace is inclusive for students, staff, and faculty to incubate, design, prototype and fabricate ideas.
    2. The makerspace is about conceptualization and making tangible representations of ideas.
    3. Making stuff generates experiential and informal learning opportunities.
    4. A healthy makerspace is facilitated, collegial and a supporting environment.
    5. The makerspace resides on a continuum between exploration, entrepreneurship, pedagogy, innovation and research.
    6. The makerspace supports competitions (e.g., HeroX,  Entreprenuer Boot Camp) and collaborations and streamlines processes to Okanagan Innovation Centre