Basic ability of students at the Maastricht University is to study: analyze text and produce essays, not "to make". Ability to make is not expected, let alone trained.
Workforce students do not accept that. Where sustainability ask for "re-design", it also asks for re-making. To research making, to make different, is what they want to have in their fingers, literarily.
Last Sunday two Workforce students, Sara and Conrad, worked on our pulley project. This is how they experience their exercise in making:

We start off with a concrete and precise task but with a little lack of orientation. The overall picture is unclear. So is the next step. During the process one increasingly understands the importance of trying out different ways, while being highly attentive to the different implications of each idea. Start thinking and experiencing with your hands! Use your intelligence not only for the design aspect but also the building/designing/learning process and how to facilitate it. Finally, it falls together nicely and gives a rewarding feeling of JOY.