Community design strategies

that build creative culture

We use a creative mindset to empower leaders and organizations to realize their innovation initiatives and nurture the communities they aspire to make.

A deliberately designed approach fosters an environment of new ideas, equity, and camaraderie.

  • Design + Making

  • Collaboration + Partnerships

  • Curiosity + Exploration

  • Staffing + Volunteers

  • Mental + Physical Safety

  • Interdisciplinary + Invention

  • Community + Culture

  • Camaraderie + Equity

CORE services

01.

Attracting and retaining all community members to build a collaborative culture.

02.

Ensuring emotional and physical safety for all through equitable staffing, operations, and initiatives.

03.

Designing customized creative initiatives and programming to cultivate long-term engagement.

04.

empowering making confidence through equitable equipment procurement and training.

05.

Tailored development strategies to increase institutional value and offset operational expenses.

maker spaces, entrepreneurship groups, STEAM programs, innovation initiatives, creative teamwork, design sprints, leadership training, think tanks, community centers, start-ups

maker spaces, entrepreneurship groups, STEAM programs, innovation initiatives, creative teamwork, design sprints, leadership training, think tanks, community centers, start-ups

We specialize in designing and implementing creative experiences and unique social interactions aimed at fostering community relationships and enhancing engagement.

Our six-step process: 

community, safely, explores, abstraction, assembles, and solves.

Trusted by leading innovators

Designing innovation SiNcE 2015

Welcome to The Maker Space Program, where culture is creativity, and people blend perspectives to innovate. At the heart of this groundbreaking cultural strategy stands Janos Stone, the visionary founder and driving force behind empowering your community and makerspaces to make space for everyone to explore.

Driven by the limitless possibility of inherent human creativity, Janos established The Maker Space Program. Janos works with individuals and institutions to provide an innovative nurturing environment where everyone can expand their imagination and bring their ideas to fruition, all while gaining valuable friendships, hands-on know-how, and new perspectives.

What Our Clients Say

  • "What most impressed me in this experience was that after a brief brainstorming on how to engage corporate partnerships, Mr. Stone was able to craft the mechanics and infrastructure in 6 weeks to allow for a series of financially sponsored "sprints" to develop multiple end-to-end solutions to a partner's problem statement."

    D.R. Widder
    Vice-President of innovation, Babson College

  • "I credit Janos with turning general ideas into an operational hub of student learning and project work (the Weissman Foundry). He showed technical skill in establishing the physical capabilities for the facility, but, moreover, he developed an inclusive collaborative culture."

    Vincent P. Manno
    Sc.D. Provost and Professor of Engineering, Olin College

  • "He is extremely creative: Janos took this event in a direction that was unexpected and, in doing so, attracted a completely new population of students to our programs. His ideas about merging art, innovation and student handiworks into a campus-wide event were simply unique."

    Gerald J. Fine
    Executive Director, Innovate@BU

  • "From 2019 to 2020, he was an essential advisor to me in the formulation of the operational playbook and cultural strategy that served as the foundation for Boston College's Shiller Institute for Science and Society as well as the upcoming Human-Centered Engineering program."

    Sunand Bhattacharya
    Associate Vice Provost for Design and Innovation Strategies, Boston College

  • "Janos and I have impactful conversations around new mechanics to grow the diversity and creativity in Artisan's Asylum, as well as a strategy for establishing connectivity across the Boston area Makerspace communities."

    Antonio Viva
    Executive Director, Artisan's Asylum

  • "We found TMSP to be entirely in line with our mission and with what we feel is most important in this work - creating a makerspace and a program co-designed with the community and focused on empowerment, culture, diversity, and inclusion."

    Kim Ducharme
    Co-PI: Multi-Gen STEM Makerspaces in Affordable Housing

Ready to Build Your Vision?

We specialize in designing face-to-face and virtual culture, strategies, and initiatives to launch creative experiences and unique social interactions that build community relationships, innovation, and engagement. It all begins with your idea, and let us know how you would like to collaborate.