IIT Gandhinagar Inaugurates ‘Maker Bhavan’ to Nurture Innovative Thinking and Accelerate Active Learning

New Delhi: IIT Gandhinagar inaugurated Maker Bhavan, a multifunctional academic makerspace to foster innovative thinking and hands-on learning among students. It is also created to advance the active and project-based learning methodology in accordance with worldwide educational institutions.

Hemant Kanakia, the founder of the Maker Bhavan Foundation, inaugurated the makerspace in the presence of Damayanti Bhattacharya, the CEO of the Maker Bhavan Foundation; Parimal Karani, a businessman; and Amit Prashant, the director of IIT Gandhinagar.

It is intended to serve as a catalyst for reforming pedagogical methods and ensuring that active learning, creativity, and innovation are integrated into teaching and learning at IIT Gandhinagar.

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The Maker Bhavan is structured like MIT and Caltech, including teamwork areas, a creative studio, and a range of digital manufacturing equipment and electronics laboratories to encourage students to turn their ideas into functional prototypes. Its goal is to develop students into doers, leaders, and innovators.

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With its cutting-edge makerspaces, novel curricular and co-curricular programmes, significant industry engagement, internship opportunities, lecture series, conferences, hands-on workshops, and more, the facility aims to benefit IIT Gandhinagar students, faculty, alumni, and industry partners, as well as educational practitioners from other institutions across the country in the long run.

This morning, @iitgn inaugurated Maker Bhavan - a state-of-the-art academic makerspace to nurture innovative thinking and accelerate active learning among students. Dr Hemant Kanakia, Founder of the Maker Bhavan Foundation (a California-based charity) inaugurated the makerspace. pic.twitter.com/dcwintqe8u
— IIT Gandhinagar (@iitgn) April 9, 2022

Speaking on the inspiration behind the creation of makerspace, Kanakia said, “I wish I had a different kind of education at IIT when I was studying because real-world engineering is very different and much more multi-disciplinary than classroom studies. There is no one answer to a problem and so a lot of re-learning has to be done to become a successful engineer.”

He further added,”We have created this Maker Bhavan to emphasize that learning can be done better by doing. The experience of actually making something makes students very confident in tackling the challenges in a very different way and that is the importance of the world of making. We want students to be inventive and develop an attitude for creative thinking. It’s been a great partnership with IIT Gandhinagar and we hope to do many more things together in years to come”.

Shreyas Agarwal, a student in the CNC programme at Maker Bhavan, IIT Gandhinagar, said “The sheer amount of learning that we get is wonderful because we get the motivation to think beyond the casual approach of doing things and also learn about budgeting for the project. Using sophisticated equipment here provides us with a great learning opportunity to solve our project problems.”

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