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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

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Science ♥ society
Carmen FenollosaMatteo MerzagoraGène BertrandFrank KupperGrace D'Arcy

Science centres, citizen science activities, hybrid cultural spaces, design thinking and discussion games are all using co-creation practices. In recent years, the interest of the science engagement community in the world of participation and co-...

Panel
Strategy & vision
MARINA LEONARDLuigi AmodioAisling MurrayAnna GunnarssonCamilla Rossi-Linnemann

Can performing arts help to convey complex messages, foster a more open and personal approach to scientific issues and allow for the production of new cultural products? Museums and science centres that choose to carry out a variety of activities...

Presentation and Q&A
Science ♥ society
Jurij Krpan

In this session, eight participants will appear in pairs on four subtopics of Designing Life phenomena:

Tissue Engineering: working with living materials
Humans/non-humans: understanding other living beings
Designing Humans...

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Learning
Meie van LaarChristine ReichSheena Laursen

Family visits, group visits, educational visits. As a science centre or museum we want to facilitate a lot of different visitors at the same time. We want to increase the number of visitors to maximise the amount of people that come into contact...

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Marketing & communication
Pilvi KolkSamuel FurnissAleksandra Wójcik-GłodowskaLath CarlsonAnne Katrine Gjerløff

Happiness is something we all desire and at the same time happy people create a joyful, desirable atmosphere within a company. What makes people happy at work and what can managers do to create a positive atmosphere at the office? Ecsite Spokes...

Social event

A networking highlight!

Ecsite invites all participants to come together for a drink among exhibitors' booths.

Traditionally exhibitors bring specialities from their home countries.

Panel
Collections
Welmoet DamsmaAnne LandDesiree VaccariniSara TougaardMichael Bradke

Traditionally, museum objects were only observed behind glass and without tactile interaction but today, engagement with real objects is often encouraged. In today’s digital world, museums have to define their added value and interaction with...

Pecha Kucha
Learning
Ran PelegAndrea Frantz-PittnerSilvia GrabnerCedric TanKate KnealeDesiree VaccariniBethan RossAstrid Rampula

‘Immersion’ and ‘immersive’ are popping up everywhere these days: immersive theatre, immersive technology, immersive games, immersive experience, even immersive dining. Science centres and museums have not evaded this trend and many offer...

Workshop
Strategy & vision
Robert FirmhoferFrederic BertleyStephen White

With major challenges around the globe including decreasing science literacy and increasing science denialism, we need to reimagine how to connect with the public in effective and engaging ways. A new science engagement model is empowering people...

Exchange Forum
Science ♥ society
Linda GalléWiebke RössigIris OttAlex Fairhead

How should spaces for interaction and open science be designed in order to welcome, encourage and engage visitors? Many major museums across Europe are undergoing major rebuilding processes in order to create spaces for communication, interaction...

Panel
Science ♥ society
Maria XanthoudakiCatarina RamosSara CalcagniniJochen ViehoffJulia EllrichTony Lockett

AI and robotics are rapidly changing our societies and this is having major consequences in the way citizens foresee the changes to their everyday lives. There is a wide consensus that AI technologies will profoundly change the world as we know...

Out and about
Science ♥ society
Magne HognestadMarco MirandaJørn HafverKim Ludwig-PetschMarta Fikus-KrynskaFredrik Motland KirkemoHenrik Helsgaun

Picture the scene: In 15 minutes, our speakers set up a pop-up science centre in a local cafe, armed with only the items they have in their pockets and backpacks!

The introduction will begin at the conference centre and then participants...

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