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AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2015278was received from New York City Council and the state, and private capital was put up by the Deutsche Bank.The space allocated to the Incubator spans more than 11,000 square feet and includes 60 desks, areas for events and lectures, a kitchen, social areas, 3D printers, high-speed Internet and apartments for artists in residence.Only up-and-coming professionals who work at the intersection of art, design and technology can be part of the project and can form groups of up to four people. A requisite is that they must be US citizens.The Tinkering Studio166 at Exploratorium in San Francisco is an educational laboratory aimed at younger visitors. It is a place for immersion, action and exploration of the institution’s scientific concepts and content. In addition to transmitting and experimenting with science, it sets out to construct pieces and create projects, and it is visitors who select the tools and create things according to their aesthetic taste.Visitors establish direct relationships withthe artists or explore the artistic, scientific or educational phenomena they find the most interesting. The Exploratorium makes available to them a large number of materials, tools and technology for experimenting and creating.The Tinkering Studio is made up of a multidis- ciplinary team of artists, scientists, technologists and cultural mediators. The research carried out on art, science and technology is designed to be displayed in the centre in the form of exhibits, or to be used as educational activities that cancarry on being developed with the help of visitors.Tinkering StudioIts core philosophy is that knowledge is notonly transmitted from teacher to pupil, butthat the pupil also builds it actively through experimentation. This theory has been shaped along the following lines: a reflective approach to materials, tools and technologies; encourage- ment of collaboration, inspiration and creativity; fostering interaction between participants and with museum content in order to establish distributed knowledge.It is possible to take part in this initiative through research residencies, workshops or field- work projects on art, science and technology. There is a particular emphasis on documentation and dissemination of theories and learning methods.The Lacma167 also has its own art + technol- ogy laboratory,168 which has been running for approximately a year. It is inspired by its own artistic programme and by the initiativeFocus 2015. Museums and New Technologies