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The Grand Bazaar

Welcome to the Grand Bazaar. Here dozens of creative and hands-on table-top activities await you, whether new to the profession or seasoned. At each station, create, experiment, or play with the truly wonderful variety of activities and demonstrations presented by an international team of experts specialising in highly effective, practical ways to engage the public. 

Facilitator

Martin Kulhawczuk
Head of Development
Vitensenteret i Trondheim
Trondheim
Norway

Session legacy

Thank you 'Mrs B' (whoever you are!) for quoting me in your tweet, shown at the bottom of this screen: "I don't want to teach ppl about science. I want to infect them with my contagious delight. Then they'll teach themselves! @ianrusselluk at the #grandbazaar."

I remember saying this because, while I was cheerfully sharing as many as possible of the easy-to-try-at-home phenomena scattered on my table, people with such serious faces kept demanding 'the explanation'...

Science is bigger than school. There is more to science communication than suffocating curious young minds with endless information. Just like our wonderful, mysterious universe, Ecsite's Grand Bazaar is a treasure-house of phenomena, inspiring intellectual excitement, and joyful curiosity...

Session speakers

Ian Russell
Ian Russell
Director
Ian Russell Interactives
High Peak, Derbyshire
United Kingdom
Twitter
A table covered with demonstrations from Ian's popular science shows, all of which can easily be repeated at home with easy-to-find objects and materials. Steal as many ideas as you like (Ian did!).
Public Engagement
John Downey
Senior Educator
Dalénium - Science Center
Stenstorp
Sweden
Science is great for getting people to talk (I have been working with the integration of English language training and science and technology for a few years now). I will bring to the table some (proven to be popular) examples of pseudoscience. You are invited to experience mentalism (mind reading), "magic" and personality assessment. We trust science to help us make informed decisions, but what happens when the science is not verifiable and is even intended to trick us? Will you be fooled?
Pedro Pombo
Pedro Pombo
Director
Fábrica Science Centre
Aveiro
Portugal
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Hanne Madsen
Hanne Madsen
Lecturer, Developer
Jaermuseet
Sandnes
Norway
Twitter
Push your creative boundaries at the Grand Bazaar and make your own glowing statement. Work together with your fellow Grand Bazaar attendees and make a fabulous glowstick-lamp using easy to come by materials. Challenge your imagination and create your own special deign and expression.
Peeranut Kanhadilok
Head of Exhibition Section of the Science Museum, Thailand
National Science Museum Thailand
Khlong Luang
Thailand
Make, play and learn angular momentum and New's theory with many kinds of spinning toys. Come and experience, "Physic" is not difficult.
Marco Miranda
Interactive Exhibit Developer - Science Show Performer
Swiss Science Center Technorama
Winterthur
Switzerland
Let's epxreiemnt and paly tgoehter wiht our sneses and smoe evreday ojbect to dsicoevr how esay can be to fool yuor, ehm, our brian! Mraco Mridanda
Noel Jackson
Head of Education
International Centre for Life
Newcastle
United Kingdom
Moony Lunacy. Find out how you can explore crater formation using edible materials and then investigate the phases of the moon by nibbling your creation. I’ll also be modelling a fetching moon collar that enables you to understand phases of the moon as well as doubling as a piece of fashion-statement jewellery.
Derek Fish
Director
Unizulu Science Centre
Richards Bay
South Africa
Come and enjoy some of the Sounds of Africa and compete on ECSITE's own version of "Denmark's Got Talent!" Learn the science behind a cacophony of interesting instruments and watch their wonderful waves!
Ronen Mir
Director - Schwartz-Reisman Science Education Centers
Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Centers
Rehovot
Israel
We will create Snow together! Yes its summer, but at the Grand Bazaar everything is possible! We will learn the difference between Hail and Snow, and experiment with their creation and properties. And as a Grand Finale we will cover the entire Experimentarium with Snow, possibly even all of Copenhagen! Snow Coats are not required.
Sara Bagge
Developer and teacher
NAVET
Borås
Sweden
Meet Al-Khwarizmi and Sonja Kovalevsky and join them on a journey to the wonderful world of Mathematics. Try solving puzzles, games and problems which could be used on small and large scale - by yourself and together.
Aiyana Hudgins
Head of Education
Vitenparken Campus Ås
Ås
Norway
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Eva Hofstad Hagen
Head of education
Vitensenteret i Trondheim
Trondheim
Norway
Push your creative boundaries at the Grand Bazaar and make your own glowing statement. Work together with your fellow Grand Bazaar attendees and make a fabulous glowstick-lamp using easy to come by materials. Challenge your imagination and create your own special deign and expression.
Camilla Larsen
Camilla Larsen
Project manager
VilVite, Bergen science center
BERGEN
Norway
Push your creative boundaries at the Grand Bazaar and make your own glowing statement. Work together with your fellow Grand Bazaar attendees and make a fabulous glowstick-lamp using easy to come by materials. Challenge your imagination and create your own special deign and expression.
Alexey Zemko photo
Alexey Zemko
CEO
AZPI - Exponi
Moscow
Russia
You are invited to explore the aerodynamics of paper planes and rockets. Fold a plane using our printed template (or with your own design) then test it using a catapult which we have named ‘Russell's Slingshot’ (RS-1). The RS-1 kit is an educational toy, digitally cut from plywood. To ‘go into space’, you can design and build your own paper rockets and enjoy launching them with the RS-2 system, another educational toy made as a kit and powered by foot pressure.
Kathrin Kösters
Research Associate for Strategy and Content
Futurium
Berlin
Germany
Discover open-source activities to communicate the mathematics of music. You don't have to be a musician to participate, but you will definitely hear some new sounds! You are curious for more open source exhibits? Please visit us at lalalab.imaginary.org.

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