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...
The Institute of Imagination presents Lab Learn: Making Movement - FREE school workshops at the Imagination Lab. These workshops are now fully booked - if you are interested in school workshops please email us. Please note: these workshops are part of Lambeth Community Programme at the Imagination Lab and your school must be based in Lambeth....
You're invited to... Lambeth Community Programme: Lab Life 'Making a Movement' We are hosting a Lab Life for Lambeth residents only, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. This will explore the topic of ‘Making a Movement’ through wind, robotics, sound, engineering and scientific experiments. What can I expect at Lab Life: Making Movement? Friday...
You’re invited to… Lab Learn: Coding Movement (Lambeth Community Programme) These sessions are fully booked. As part of the Lambeth Community Programme, local Lambeth schools can sign up to a free Lab Learn: Coding Movement session. In these schools sessions aimed ay Key Stage 1 and 2 we...
You’re invited to…. Lab Life: Art Meets Science (Home Ed) Join us at the Imagination Lab where we’ll be exploring the crossover between art and science. At these Lab Life sessions exclusively for Home Ed students, you can create your own environment with Co Spaces virtual reality app, work together in groups to build and...
You’re invited to…Lab Life: Art Meets Science (Lambeth Community Programme) Join us at the Imagination Lab where we’ll be exploring the crossover between art and science. At these Lab Life sessions exclusively for local Lambeth residents, you can create your own environment with Co Spaces virtual reality app, work together in groups to build and...
Creative, multi-therapy & learning day (SEN and Lambeth Community Programme) You’re invited to a Lab Life for parents and carers in Lambeth with children with Special Educational Needs. This creative, multi-therapy and learning day is in partnership with the Lambeth National Autism Society and is aimed at Lambeth residents. We are looking to see how we...
This event is fully booked. You’re invited to… Tinkering Club: Funky Sound Instruments We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? Build your own guitar, drums or even a full band! Programme and engineer your creations with Mircobits and speakers...
A festival where science meets art.
You’re invited to… Tinkering Club: Buzz Wire Games We are hosting a Tinkering Club for Lambeth residents, as part of the Lambeth Community Programme. What can you expect at Tinkering Club? Buzz wire is a steady hand game that is well known to many as a table top amusement. Join us to build your own...
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...
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...
A schools workshop in partnership with Siobhan Davies Dance
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… 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!
You’re invited to…Lab Life: Happiness and Silliness (Lambeth Community Programme) At the Imagination Lab we will be exploring happiness and silliness though a range of fun activities! We forget how important it is to have fun, laugh and be silly. You will have the chance to explore, test and make with Jack-in the-box machines, play...
You're invited to Lab Learn: Mark Making and Dance with Siobhan Davies Dance company (Lambeth Community Programme) These workshops will provide a fun, imaginative and sensorial experience of cause and effect. We will look at the ways in which cause and effect play out in movement and the multiplicity of ways in which the moving body...
A school session for KS2, with a focus on students with SEND
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 add more creations to Super City, a collaborative and...
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 are invited to…Lab Learn: Making Movement This event is now fully booked. Movement plays an integral part in our everyday lives. We are always fascinated how, why and what makes something move in our world. These sessions at the Imagination Lab explore, test and experiment the theme ‘Making Movement’ through mechanical wire automatons, jitterbug...
You are invited to…Lab Life: Making Mechanisms Mechanisms are all around us. They make our lives and jobs easier, often without us consciously recognising them. At Lab Life: Making Mechanisms, you'll be able to explore the crossover between engineering, art and science, with two workshop activities that allow you to create your own automata and sorting,...
You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Velocity This event is now fully booked. Join us at the Imagination Lab to satisfy your need for speed! At Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Velocity, we will be playing and experimenting with elasticity, balloon power, electricity, motors and Micro:bits. We’ll be exploring how we make robots, paper aeroplanes,...
You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Flight This event is now fully booked. Join us for an extra-special Tinkering Club to explore the topics of electrification and flight, in partnership with Rolls-Royce. There will be two activity stations to spark the imaginations of young inventors. Activity Station One: What could become possible – now and in the future –...
You are invited to… Lab Life: Winter Wonders (Lambeth Community Programme) book now Kickstart the season of giving with some festive making and tinkering at the Imagination Lab! What can I expect at Lab Life: Winter Wonders? At Lab Life: Winter Wonders, you’ll be able to create a host of handmade gifts with three crafty...
You are invited to…Tinkering Club: Tinkering With Electronics & Circuits This event is now fully booked. We’ll be getting into the Christmas spirit at Tinkering Club in December. Come along to the Imagination Lab where we’ll be making Christmas-themed products by tinkering with electronics and circuit making. We’ll be experimenting with soldering, LED, sounds, parallel...
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...
Sessions for KS2 classes in Lambeth exploring flight.
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 tinkering club for Lambeth residents only
Explore the creativity of micro:bit (micro-computing) hosted by us as part of the global micro:bit challenge!
A pop-up at Curry’s PC World, Brixton with creative technology tasters.
If your child took part in the Lambeth Sparks programme, we're inviting them to use their imagination to create a world of wellbeing!
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!
It's time for the Lambeth Sparks animation challenge!
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 learning Aardman inspired techniques as well as using Aardman's new stop motion app.
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.
You’re invited to... Lambeth Libraries: Digital Handheld Cities iOi at Home is a new creative programme in Lambeth. iOi and Lambeth Libraries are working together to bring families in Lambeth a Digital Lending Library where equipment can be borrowed and used at home to support learning, experimentation and playing with imagination! In this workshop we...
Join us online to create and experiment with your own paper city!
Part 1 of this activity you will go on adventures through exploring scenes in Virtual Reality
Classrooms across Lambeth and Newham can join in our sculpting paper cities workshop!
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 microscope and and explore the nature around you.
Continue creating a digital city by using Virtual Reality!
