Designing “Contexts for Tinkerability” With Undergraduates and Children Within the El Pueblo Mágico Social Design Experiment

"Making and Tinkering" links science, technology, engineering and mathematics learning (STEM) to the do-it-yourself "maker" movement, where people of all ages "create and share things in both the digital and physical world" (Resnick & Rosenbaum, 2013). This paper examines designing what Resnick and Rosenbaum (2013) call "contexts for tinkerability" within the social design experiment of El Pueblo Mágico (EPM) -- a design approach organized around a cultural historical view of learning and development. We argue that this theoretical perspective reorganizes normative approaches to STEM education through a hybrid approach that brings together concepts from cultural historical theory and from Making and Tinkering (M & T) in ways that are important to how theory is enacted in STEM practice.