Research, theory & evaluation
Maria ZоlоtоnоsаRose JonesSuzana Filipecki MartinsNils Petter HauanArtur Kalinowski
This session explores the methodological explosion that has been quietly unfolding in museums during the last decade. As the boundaries between Evaluation and Research are being reconfigured so are the disciplinary borders and theoretical...
Learning
Christina RühlmannIrena CieślińskaRonan GermanHeidrun SchulzeGunnar Behrens
Through the digital revolution, our learning and working conditions have changed fundamentally. Knowledge workers today have to be able to use complex systems and to differentiate themselves from robots at the same time, relying on genuine human...
Learning
Richard Houghton
Come and start your visit to #Ecsite2018 by surfing the universe. The Hong Kong Space Museum has just reopened after a £3.5 million refurbishment. HKD Creative Director Richard Houghton FRSA, Fellow of Science Centre Singapore will be talking...
Exhibit development
Kate KnealeRan PelegMalka YayonClaudia SodiniYael BambergerJohn Sear
For this session the Ecsite conference's GameLab space will be turned into an escape room: a game in which participants are confined to a room and must solve puzzles to successfully escape within a certain time frame.
Escape rooms are a...
Marketing & communication
Roy SchedlerJoanna KalinowskaMaarten OkkersenHeli AinoaRoy SchedlerElin Ravndal Bell
In this session, professionals from different science centres and museums will share how they use empirical customer insights in their marketing-communication. They will explain how they learn about their visitors’ needs, expectations and wishes...
Science ♥ society
All detailed information about this workshop can be found here.
Careful: since we're going on an excursion on this second day, we're starting at 8.00 and not 9.00....
Learning
Sebastian MartinRyan JenkinsRicardo NemirovskyTam DibleyLindsay BalfourLing Ling Chew
Computational Tinkering is a new initiative developed by the Exploratorium science centre (San Francisco, USA), aimed at supporting learners to combine coding and making in ways that support personal expression, creativity and independent problem...
Learning
Carlin HsuehMaria ZоlоtоnоsаWalter StavelozYumi MiyaharaMuki Haklay
Public engagement with and understanding of science are central to improving standards of living everywhere and to building a better future for the planet. Science engagement players can play a crucial role in connecting global communities while...
Science ♥ society
Tapio KoivuTuomas OlkkuJoona KurikkaLeenu Juurola
Co-creation, accelerating innovation and rapid prototyping are today’s buzzwords. As science centres, we have certain natural advantages to position ourselves as innovation platforms, facilitating unexpected interactions. This session aims to...
Learning
Daniel RosqvistAlfred GrimlundMagne HognestadSara BaggeTor-Inge RasmussenSander KaskMartin Swift
Outreach is an especially vital aspect of science communication in Northern Europe as its low population density means there are many who live in remote areas. This has also come to be true for socioeconomicly segregated areas, especially in the...
Exhibit development
Julie BeckerLeonel AlegreAlexia JACQUES CASANOVALeonel AlegreDorothée VatinelPeter TrevittSamuel LagierInes MontalvaoMichael FeserAdria LeBoeufJulie BeckerHaydn Antoniw
Are you facilitating creative team processes? Tired of always using the same old tricks? Interested in the wider potential of creative techniques? This session is for you.
For this workshop 10 facilitators have gathered and selected a wide...
The Farewell Party is the conference's most informal social event: dance, chat, share a drink with other participants...
This year it will be taking place at the Bâtiment des forces motrices, a beautiful building on the river Rhône whose...