The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History is planning a new exhibition called Places of Invention. The exhibition will explore several questions about creative communities, including:

• What social, psychological, and spatial elements spark creativity?
• How do these elements give rise to places where invention thrives?
• How does collaboration affect innovation?

Join the Lemelson Center in making the Places of Invention exhibition itself a hot spot of innovation and an environment for sustained learning. Open for submissions April 30 - June 30, 2010.

Submit your ideas and possible solutions for one or all of these design challenges:

1. Design an interactive space: How can Museum visitors build a miniature place of invention within the exhibition?
2. Design a collaborative activity: How can Museum visitors practice the collaborative skills modeled by known innovators?
3. Model your place of invention: What aspects of your environment affect your own creative process?

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