A Pathway to Creativity and Dreams, Paved with Legos
December 23, 2020
. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Samuel Mollema from Melbourne, Australia.
During the 2019 conference of the Geography Teachersâ Association of Victoria, in Melbourne, my colleague and I were operating an exhibit for Esri Australia. We soon noticed that there was another fascinating exhibitor there, not a company, nonprofit, or government agency, but an amazing one-man show named Samuel Mollema. His Lego model of Melbourne, painstakingly created at a specific scale piece-by-piece from thousands of Lego sets, so inspired me that I asked him if he would share his story on GeoInspirations. Here is a video I filmed of his work. In talking with him at the conference and thereafter, it is clear that not only his Lego model is inspiring, but his career journey and vision for the future makes him seem much wiser and older than his 19 years. It is my great pleasure to introduce Sam