Explainers & visitor services
Malvina ArtheauMarc Jamous
Most of us don’t have the time to try out many serious games. We might have tried a couple of them and have gotten discouraged by their poor quality, or, lest say it, because we got bored. Time consuming, unequal quality: it doesn’t really...
Explainers & visitor services
Richard HoughtonRebecca CaswellTessa van SchijndelJoe MartinClara Lim
Each child is unique and their learning processes are complex. Furthermore, children in their early years vary widely in their stages of growth and development. How can we create situations and environments that address childrens’ unique...
Research, theory & evaluation
Anneli PaulLim Tit MengRosalia VargasJohn Falk
Although science centres have long asserted their critical role in supporting science engagement, learning and attitudes of the public, comprehensive data to support these claims are limited. This session will describe the International Science...
Exhibit development
Jamie BellLouise Julie BertrandDominique BotbolMichael Bradke
What would happen if exhibition designers used music as a conceptual trigger and creative constraint? Music and exhibitions share some characteristics: Listening to music and visiting an exhibition happen over time, in varying tempos, in dense...
Explainers & visitor services
Amy Seakins
Museums and science centres often aim to ‘open up’ their spaces to visitors. Join us for a discussion of how to share the wonders of science research, scientific collaboration, and museum development with visitors. Speakers from Netherlands,...
Explainers & visitor services
Leonardo AlfonsiHerbert MuenderMassimiliano TrevisanLivio Riboli-Sasco
How will science events innovate their content and structure over the next ten years to avoid becoming dinosaurs? After a decade of rapid and constant development worldwide, science events are starting to diversify, focusing on specific science...
Exhibit development
Aaike van OordMichele LanzingerFabrice JouvenotVincenzo LipardiNina MöllersDiederik VeermanMao ImaizumiJean-Marie Sani
Humanity and its relationship with the environment is an important topic at the intersection of science centres, civilization museums and natural history museums. To understand this complex relationship, we must use multidisciplinary approaches....
Exhibit development
Daniel RosqvistAnnika WaernJohan EckerudDaniel RosqvistLisa Månsson
When the behavior of a target group changes, we need to change with them. With a gamification project called “The Mission”, Tom Tits Experiment in collaboration with Uppsala University and Expology, seeks to meet the expectations of an...
Explainers & visitor services
Helena JedrzejczakElena MashintsovaPaweł Wójcik
Visitors are taking part in creating exhibitions in science centres around the world. This collaboration can be done in many ways. We will focus on two: First, science centres created mainly through public engagement and, second, projects in...
Research, theory & evaluation
Marianne AchiamTessa van SchijndelAmy SeakinsAlexander Moss
“Interest” is a key concept in the field of science education and engagement. Science centres, museum exhibitions, programmes and interventions are designed to stimulate the interest of visitors. But what exactly is interest and how does it...
Exhibit development
Mikko MyllykoskiDominique BotbolPäivi GarnerPatricia VerheydenAntonia Caola
Language and translation policies and practices are an easily overlooked sector in the functions of a science centre. Who reads exhibition texts anyway, let alone the different language versions? As far as accessibility is concerned,...
Explainers & visitor services
Emily Dawson
This session looks at the concept of ‘science capital’ – science-related qualifications, knowledge, literacy and social contacts, which were developed in the ASPIRES project to help understand patterns in young people’s science aspirations...