OUR MISSION
To establish and maintain an inclusive community gathering space for play, discovery and creative exploration.
WHO WE ARE
Interactive Bellingham (IB) is a group of passionate community members who have come together to create a space for interactive play, creativity and discovery for all ages, abilities and backgrounds in Bellingham.
We want to create a new space where anyone and everyone can come to be immersed in a unique environment of extraordinary interactive artful installations. We want visitors to be amazed by the unexpected, to be astonished by the weird and wonderful, to interact with art, games, moving sculptures, machines, and unusual spaces; to explore, invent, learn, create, and where all who enter can experience the joy of play.
We believe that this place will tempt everyone and will:
We want everyone who visits our future home to be amazed, delighted, inspired and welcomed, returning again and again, while discovering something new each time.
Interactive Bellingham is a registered 501(c)(3).
Ian Bivens
Alice Clark
Kate Clark
Liz Jennings
Steve Lemma
Jessyca Murphy
Thor Myhre
Rene Sherrer
ADVISORY BOARD
Mary Elliot
Elsa Lenz Kothe
Kristi Park
Michael Oppenheimer
Susan Powell
Mike Smith
THE IDEA ROVER was a hands-on activity and market research contraption and “tri-psy-cle” that was funded by a Whatcom Community Foundation Project Neighborly grant. It visited over 10 different community events in 2018 around greater Whatcom County. A close investigation rewarded curious visitors with experiences that engaged the senses through sound-activated switches and buttons that invited touch, close-viewing ocular devices to see things from different perspectives, moving gears people set into motion, creation stations where messages were left and ideas were communicated in a variety of ways. In addition to engaging those who experienced The Idea Rover, the ideas and comments collected helped us form our vision for our future home.
“Play builds the kind of free and easy, try it out, do-it-yourself
character that our future needs.” – James L. Hymes, Jr.
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