Exhibit development
Stephen Pizzey
This session is an opportunity for those involved in the operation of small science centres to exchange ideas, learn new developments and renew contacts. Centres with astronomy, space science or related themes will be approached for contributions...
Science & Arts
Ed SobeyEd SobeyANNA PORROGiorgia Bellentani
This panel aims to show some innovative approaches linking art, science, and creativity for kids and schools. The connection between art and science is developed on a double track process: through a hands-on method – typical of the teaching of...
Science in Society
Marzia MazzonettoPaola RodariAndrea Bandelli
Science centres and museums are promoting themselves as platforms for governance, citizen participation and dialogue on the relationship between nature, science and society. What are examples of success, in which museums and science centres have...
Research, theory & evaluation
Sally DuensingVarda Gur Ben Shitrit
Three case studies will explore applying research and evaluation insights into exhibit design. Analysis will cover unexpected outcomes as well as intended aims to highlight the tools and theories applied in a variety of environments....
Science in Society
Jan RiiseJan RiiseMarie-Pauline GacoinVarda Gur Ben ShitritMichel Claessens
This session is about the specific challenges of communicating “big science” of the large-scale research infrastructures. It will include aspects like public understanding and acceptance as well as the challenges of talking about...
Education
Jamie BellTanja van der WoudeGabriel PicotPriya Mohabir
Informal science centres are great places to use media in education and training. In this session we will highlight informal science initiatives that promote digital and media competence at different levels of education. Participants will have an...
Science in Society
Ana NoronhaMarjolein van BreemenPedro RussoChristophe Chaffardon
The cosmos has always been a source of inspiration for mankind. Science and technology have produced spacecraft, robots, telescopes and antennas, making space exploration a reality and bringing space applications into our daily lives. Could that...
Exhibit development
Maarten Okkersenjussi savaIan SimmonsPeter UllstadPieter AartsenClaudia SchleyerIan RussellEsther HamstraLAURENT CHICOINEAUveronique HALLARD
It’s like creative speed dating: Meet exhibition makers and designers in an intimate setting and talk about managing creativity, content development, succesful design and management of exhibitions and exhibits. This new format will stuff as much...
Media
LAURENT CHICOINEAU
Thanks to online social media such as blogs, social networks, or curating tools (like scoop.it), lots of news has been published, commented, re-published, re-commented, etc. One no longer needs to graduate from journalism school to be a science...
Science in Society
Catherine FrancheRichard TuffsTim CaultonAntonio Gomes da Costa
Science centres and museums are becoming instrumental in the economic, cultural and social development of cities. This broad impact of science communication institutions will be discussed based on three presentations. First, a look at the role...
Human Resources
Maria XanthoudakiAnne Lise MathieuBeth StonePaola RodariHeather King
Explainers are among the professions present in almost all museums and science centres around the world. However, their tasks, training, backgrounds, length of stay on the job – even the name used to define them – varies across different...
Explainers & visitor services
Nathalie CapletJasper VisserKirsten EllenbogenSophina Jagot
The web and its social networks – they are the ultimate tools to reach beyond time and space. But once we’ve got the website, the blog, the profile, what should we do then? How can we get the most out of these resources? Experiences from...