VIDEO: Lunchroom Transforms Into Makery City at Festival 2015
Over the course of six hours on Saturday, October 17, Burke's students and other Festival attendees turned the Lunchroom into a thriving miniature metropolis otherwise known as Makery City.
Using donated recyclables such as cardboard boxes, plastic fruit baskets and old CDs, builders undertook the task of constructing their own scaled-down urban landscape — complete with streets, buses and skyscrapers with blinking lights. One ambitious group even created a mountain range complete with ski lift on the outskirts of town, and another put together a reasonable facsimile of the Sydney Opera House. By the end of Festival, the floor of the Lunchroom was full of structures — some high, some low — with related city infrastructure.
This was the first year of Makery City (population: 400) at Festival, which had previously hosted a smaller area for projects known as Makery Unplugged. Makery City was founded as a way to demonstrate to the entire Burke's community what activities take place inside the Makery and across campus as that type of tinkering and creating becomes a more integrated part of the Burke's curriculum.
Click here to watch a time-lapse video of the transformation that took place to make Makery City a reality. Many thanks to Venk Reddy, Alka Agrawal and their team of teachers and volunteers for facilitating this day of creativity and brainstorming.