Inventionland is a Pittsburgh-based immersive work environment and idea incubator where creative projects are brought to life. Inventionland organizes tours for roughly 15,000 students, educators, designers, business professionals and inventors every year. The facility was created to inspire creativity, promote innovation, and foster education.
Inventionland was conceived by George Davison. Nathan Field served as the executive creative coach, and Joey Warren acted as senior concept designer. According to George Davison, his intention in building Inventionland was to provide a creative work environment in which artists, graphic designers, industrial designers and others could design, develop and create prototypes.
Within Inventionland's 61,000 square-foot design facility are 16 themed sets, named and designed to reflect the new-product invention activity within. Some of the sets include:
- Motor Speeday: industrial and automotive products
- Discover Pirate Ship: toy department
- Crafty Cottage: sewing
- Animation Attic
- Creativity Cabin
- Nursery Noook: Baby products
- Pet Shack: Animal products
- Inventalot Castle
- Creation Cavern: hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking
- Brainpower Ballpark: sports
- Treehouse
- Inventron 54 Robot: consumer electronics
- Home Sweet Home: household products
- Home Health Innovations
- Concept Kitchen (giant cupcake): kitchen
- Animation Studio with one of the largest green screens in the tri-state area
Inventionland also has three running waterfalls, lifelike trees and butterflies and grass-lined sidewalks. Its manufacturing capabilities include metalworking, woodworking, molding, laser cutting, prototyping, circuit board construction and more, which all take place in its production facility.
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