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Annual Conference sessions

The first Ecsite Conference took place in 1989. Here you can browse all Conference sessions since 2010. Use the search engine to look for people, topics...

Looking for an older session? Our digital records start in 2007, with programme pdfs attached to each conference page

Exhibit development
Sally DuensingSara CalcagniniDominique Botbol

Developing a permanent exhibition is a crucial moment for most museums. Developers face many challenges which range from how to communicate science content in a permanent, engaging and accessible way. In contemporary society this challenge...

Education
Ingeborg KrangeCATHERINA VOREADOULuigi AmodioSven Bakken

Information communication technology (ICT) has the potential to integrate activities across schools, science centers, and professional companies. How do students use iPads and iPods to document their activities in the science centre? How do they...

Exhibit development
Anne PrugnonChristina Ritzl VejlgaardLars WerdelinSonja NeumannPanagiotis Poulopoulos

In our dreams, we are transported to different worlds, distant times and sometimes unfamiliar places. This session will explore innovative techniques for creating a sense of time and place in exhibitions, using objects, digital interpretation and...

Collections
Elna NordBlair ParkinDaniel AntoineFarah Ahmed

A revolution is happening in museums and store rooms around the world. Objects held in museum storage for hundreds of years, some hundreds of millions of years old, are starting to see the light of day in entirely news ways using 3D visualisation...

Education
Heather KingMarianne AchiamRooske Franse

Innovative ideas often originate from cross-pollination among disciplines. Informal science education (ISE) is a domain wherein many academic disciplines come together, for example: learning is a research focus for child development, psychology...

Dominique BotbolClaudia Schleyerkatell barthélémyMikko KauhanenTouko Korhonen

Designers will discuss their experiences in the development process of an exhibition as either in-house or external exhibition designers:

- In-house designers enable greater collaboration insofar as they are fully integrated into the...

Technology
Owain Davies

“When I first started designing and building exhibits I’d never heard of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Now there isn’t a project that comes up without someone mentioning it, QR, or bar codes! And everyone wants...

Education
Mark ElamAlexandra WeilenmannTommaso VenturiniCatharina Ländström

As many of today’s science centres wish to foster public engagement with current research, so too are many schools promoting student engagement with so-called socioscientific issues. Aiming to creatively combine these concerns, the...

Explainers & visitor services
Philipp HorstLeonel AlegreAnna SchaefersInes PRIETOManuel Roca

In our dreams, visitors attend our exhibitions, approach the exhibits and know exactly what to do. When they leave, they are smarter than before and feel happy. Visitors probably have the same dream. But if we look at reality, visitor interaction...

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