You’re invited to… Lambeth Community Programme: Tinkering Club We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents only, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? With 'wearables' always trending in new forms, the Institute of Imagination will be celebrating the creative application, design, innovation and invention of new...
You're invited to... Lab Liftoff: Global Designathon! The Institute of Imagination will be hosting a Designathon workshop as part of Global Designathon 2017. How can we teach our children to become the producer of new technologies? How can we show our children how to build a better world for themselves and the planet? The Designathon method was...
A festival where science meets art.
You’re invited to… the Lambeth Autism Fayre We’ve team up with the Lambeth branch of the National Autistic Society, for a day of activities in the Imagination Lab and the Engine Hall for children, adults, families, parents and professionals. If you are a Lambeth resident, you are eligible for free tickets. Please contact hello@ioi.london to request your discount...
Easter holiday activity camp for children
This event is now fully booked. See our other events here. We're partnering with CoderDojo London to host Girls Only Dojo at the Imagination Lab At this session, there will be plenty of coding tracks to choose from : Learn how to code a website Learn how to design and create web apps with...
You’re invited to…. Lab Life: Film Hacks and Gadgets (Home Ed) Join us at the Imagination Lab where we’ll be making and exploring futuristic gadgets for film and TV. At these Lab Life sessions exclusively for Home Ed students you will: Work with Foley Sound to make your own SFX Hack a film with Morse...
You’re invited to… Tinkering Club: Futuristsic Film Gadgets (Lambeth Community Programme) We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? Join us at the Imagination Lab where we’ll be making and exploring futuristic gadgets for film and TV. Create your own...
You're invited to...OKIDO Get Into Science Family Event! BOOK NOW This event is all about the magic of science exploration! Make friends, learn about science and have fun in this bi-monthly event for young children and their families, run by OKIDO, with experts, artists and scientists. The event encourages learning through play in the most fun...
You’re invited to…Lab Life: Super City (Lambeth Community Programme) What might a city of the future look like? How might we live and move around it? How would you animate it with people? Join Sculptor Jim Bond, wire artist Helaina Sharpley and Maker extraordinaire Samantha Bryan as we start to create Super City, a collaborative and interactive...
You’re invited to…Lab Life: Super City What might a city of the future look like? How might we live and move around it? How would you animate it with people? Join Sculptor Jim Bond, wire artist Helaina Sharpley and Maker extraordinaire Samantha Bryan as we start to create Super City, a collaborative and interactive cityscape which will...
A 3-day May Half Term activity camp with the team behind the War Horse puppets
You’re invited to… Tinkering Club: Electronic Chain Reactions We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? Celebrate the creative application, design, innovation and invention involved in creating electronic chain reactions. A Chain Reaction is an activity where each item has an effect...
A festival of the future in the Lab and the 12,000sq ft Engine Hall!
Explore the science of bubbles with OKIDO Magazine
Events celebrating how our brains think, explore and imagine at The Hub at the Wellcome Collection
Electronics, mechanics and programming Summer activity camps with MakerClub
Imagine, design and build a moving robot animal for the robot zoo in a one or two day camp.
You’re invited to… Lab Life: Tinkering Day Project (Lambeth residents) Join us at the Imagination Lab on 9 or 10 August where we will be exploring: Physical games such as tag, how fast your reflexes are and reinventing these games through digital code. Pinbal and Board Games: by building digital dice, recreating operation or making LED snakes and...
You’re invited to… Lab Liftoff: Coding Camp with FUZE Imagination Camp FUZE Workshops consist of a full day’s coding activities, learning to code using a real text based programming language. Children from 7-14 years old get to code simple programs, control electronic circuits, interact with sensors and even code a robot arm. The activities are...
You are invited to... London Curriculum Children's Festival We're excited to be a part of the London Curriculum Children's Festival, where we'll be hosting a water rafting workshop for children and families. Come and see us at Potters Fields for a fun afternoon of free workshops, family activities and more. Water Rafting Workshop The act of making a raft...
City Hall opens its doors as part of Open House and we're running a Future Cities workshop!
A two-day robotics camp to get into the Halloween spirit
You are invited to…Lab Life: Pioneering The Power That Matters This event is now fully booked. What could become possible – now and in the future – with the power of electrification? We’re partnering with Rolls-Royce to inspire new generations about the challenges and possibilities presented by our future energy demands, as well as introduce...
You are invited to… Festive Maker Market! Smart gifts for curious minds book now We’re celebrating the festive period in style at the Imagination Lab… with a magical Festive Maker Market! Teaming up with some of our most popular partners from throughout the year (as well as some exciting new makers), the Festive Maker Market...
One day coding camp during the Christmas holidays
Put your coding skills to the test at our interactive light installation in Canary Wharf.
You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Fantastic Beasts and How To Make Them This Tinkering Club has a magical twist! Come alog to the Imagination Lab, where you’ll discover fantastic beasts and how to make them. From griffins and bowtruckles to any fantastical creature you can create using your imagination, get hands-on using micro:bits, motors and structural...
A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.
A full day skills camp for children 7-12 exploring coding, creative invention and making using Micro:bit, motors and sensors
A full day skills camp for children aged 7-12, learning to code through playful technology.
Coding camp for 7-14 year olds. Code simple programs, control electronic circuits, interact with sensors and more.
A digital storytelling workshop at Pinner Library.
We're partnering with Second Home for a family day full of activities at Second Home London Fields.
A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.
You’re invited to…Tinkering Club: Coding Light & Sound We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? This month children will learn how to code light and sound. Using BBC Micro: bits, LED’s and structural materials children will be able to create...
A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.
A full day skills camp for children ages 7-12 exploring creative invention using micro:bit, a tiny programmable computer!
A full day skills camp for children aged 7-12, learning to code through playful technology.
A full day skills camp for children aged 7-12, learning to code through playful technology.
A day long skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring coding and robotics.
A full day skills camp for children ages 7-12 exploring creative invention using micro:bit, a tiny programmable computer!
A Lambeth community programme for residents of Lambeth.
A hands-on family festival celebrating curiosity at the Imagination Lab - book for 18 and 19 May.
A full day Half Term skills camp for children aged 7-12 exploring creative invention using micro:bit.
A full day Half Term skills camp for children aged 7-12 years, inventing games and learning to code with BBC micro:bit.
A day long Half Term skills camp for children 7-12 exploring coding and robotics with LEGO Education WeDo 2.0 kits.
A family music, movement and craft workshop with musicians and dancers from BitterSuite
Book for 1-31 August weekday entry to Mega Maker Lab, a summer celebration of creativity, invention, making…and fun!
Book for 1-31 August weekend entry to Mega Maker Lab, a summer celebration of creativity, invention, making…and fun!
A masterclass exploring virtual reality as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass exploring the gadget Sphero as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass in stop-frame animation as part of Mega Maker Lab
A day long coding skills camp for children aged 7-12
A quieter day to explore Mega Maker Lab. This day is particularly focussed on enhancing the experience for children with SEN.
A day long robotics workshop for children aged 7-12 using BBC Micro:bit
A full day skills camp exploring electrical circuits
A masterclass exploring virtual reality as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass in creating holograms as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass exploring coding, conductivity, sound and music by learning how to create circuits and applying computer code and improvised sound and music
A masterclass exploring virtual reality as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass exploring the gadget Sphero as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass exploring stop-frame animation as part of Mega Maker Lab
A day long skills camp with BBC micro:bit for children aged 7-12
A masterclass exploring virtual reality as part of Mega Maker Lab
A masterclass in creating holograms as part of Mega Maker Lab
Explore the creativity of micro:bit (micro-computing) hosted by us as part of the global micro:bit challenge!
Join a workshop at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's drawings.
Become part of the Lambeth Sparks programme and develop valuable skills in digital project based learning.
A pop-up at Curry’s PC World, Brixton with creative technology tasters.
Become part of the Lambeth Sparks programme and develop valuable skills in digital project-based learning.
Become part of the Lambeth Sparks programme and develop valuable skills in digital project-based learning.
If your child took part in the Lambeth Sparks programme, we're inviting them to use their imagination to create a world of wellbeing!
If your child took part in the Lambeth Sparks programme, we're inviting them to use their imagination to create a stop motion story!
Join the Inclusive Virtual Imagination Hub and play with aerodynamics! Suitable for SEND families from Brent, Barnet and Harrow.
Join the Inclusive Virtual Imagination Hub and create your own games in Make Cube Arcade! Suitable for SEND families from Brent, Barnet and Harrow.
Join the Inclusive Virtual Imagination Hub and experiment with stop motion animation! Suitable for SEND families from across London.
Join the Inclusive Virtual Imagination Hub and experiment with food colouring! Suitable for SEND families from Brent, Barnet, Harrow, Camden, Kensington & Chelsea, City of Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham.
Children and young people will explore how to animate and create exciting campaigns.
Children learn how to animate their own films using clay, plasticine and wire!
Using Unity, children will learn how to create and animate their own games!
Children use MakeCode Arcade to create and code their own games, characters, background and much more!
Children will tinker with different animation techniques using food and drink
Children and young people will create characters using clay, wire and plasticine!
Children will be using MakeCode Arcade to create and code their own games.
Children will be using MakeCode Arcade to create and code their own multiplayer games!
It's time for the Lambeth Sparks animation challenge!
Children will then tinker and explore different animation techniques using food or drink.
Inspired by Aardman, we'll build characters and backgrounds for animations
Children will be using MakeCode Arcade to create and code their own games.
Children will animate their own films using the skills they have learnt from the previous sessions.
A chance to celebrate the achievements over the last six weeks.
Part 1 of this activity you will go on adventures through exploring scenes in Virtual Reality
In Part 2 of this activity you will continue building your Digital Handheld City and learn how to begin coding it to make it move and come to life
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sounds of the Docks!
Play and tinker with everyday materials to create your own sound orchestra
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sounds of the Docks!
Play and tinker with everyday materials to create your own sound orchestra
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sounds of the Docks!
Play and tinker with everyday materials to create your own sound orchestra
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sounds of the Docks!
Play and tinker with everyday materials to create your own sound orchestra
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sounds of the Docks!
Play and tinker with everyday materials to create your own sound orchestra
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sound of The Docks
Build your own rainstick inspired by the sounds of the Docks.
Build your own microscope and explore the world around you!
Join us at Millennial Mills to reimagine Silvertown!
Hack the Millennium Mills using Virtual Reality!
Build your own microscope in our afterschool club!
Explore Virtual Reality using cospaces!
A free inclusive workshop this February Half Term!
