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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As we work in the creative field we're asked to come up with new innovative ideas day after day. But is that really possible? Can we really have good and new ideas out of the blue?
In this session we go on a journey to explore the human...
Almost every day, we read about a new platform for gaming, alternate realities or immersive experiences. In this ever-shifting technology landscape, how do informal learning organisations keep up? Frequently without the in-house financial and...
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 academic world can sometimes appear puzzling, complex or even “inert” to other science engagement actors ; however, many fruitful collaborations are possible.
Why (and how) should science centres and universities collaborate better?...