Tinkering Ever After is a portal where people of diverse backgrounds can find inspiration and make connections across disciplinary silos. What happens when you mix STEM learning with art, industry, storytelling, poetry, and business? Hi, I’m Rey, and I make interdisciplinary bridges. Are you interested in learning about:
- Making things
- The intersection of Art and Science
- Purpose, whimsy, and the drive to create something
- Methods and Materials
- Constructivist learning and facilitation of hands-on learning
- The Maker Movement
- STEAM Education
- Poetry, Performance, Narrative Art and other ways to tell a story
- Galaxies and Black Holes and an occasional star that falls in and flares up
- Interdisciplinary Collaborations
If any of these things puts a spark in your eyes, you will find value in this blog. I post about my learning adventures through discovery of new materials, ideas, collaborations, processes, and creative reflection. Read my full Bio below.
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I am from Kathmandu, Nepal and live in Wichita, Kansas. I create at the intersection of Art, Science and Stories. I am excited to share my new-found love of making and tinkering with fellow lifelong learners. I have a Masters in Astrophysics and three years of experience working at a Science Center, where I created scientific content and programs for museum visitors of all ages. I currently work and teach at Wichita State University. I teach a class on Interdisciplinary Research, and develop and conduct professional development workshops for students, faculty, staff and teachers in our community. I am pursuing a graduate degree in the Masters of Innovation Design program where I am constantly involved in design thinking collaborations, may it be about entrepreneurs starting their own businesses, designing new products, or helping someone refine their ideas.
During my college years, as I darted from Electrodynamics to 2D Drawing, and back to Cosmology with charcoal under my fingernails, I became the defender of the arts among my physics peers, and advocate of the sciences among my art peers. In graduate school, I studied how galaxies and black holes co-evolved, and now in grad school again, I am studying entrepreneurship and problem solving and design with an amazing group of people of diverse backgrounds. In all this time, I have come across people who say they don’t get art, that they’re not creative, and on the other side, people who say that science/ engineering is way over their head. So, I’ve set out to bring art and science together, to make unlikely connections, and to make interdisciplinary collaborations the norm of human learning. Come along ponds, the adventure awaits us all!
