Learning
Vesna PajićLuka VidicDidier LavalBob Friedhoffer
Using the terms and tools of magic, metaphysics, superstition, alternative truth, healing, miracles in science communication can spur our audience's imagination and make them wonder what it is they have just seen and how it happened. Surprising...
Strategy & vision
Patricia VerheydenMikko MyllykoskiAntonio Gomes da CostaAndy LloydMarie-Christine Van der Sman
What is the future of science centre exhibitions? Do we need to stick to scientific phenomena, or focus on high tech and current science? Do we concentrate on objects or interaction? Or are physical exhibitions becoming obsolete in the digital...
Learning
Samar D. KirreshYihsuan LinMay Sabbah
Tear apart some old boxes and bring your ideas to life. In this session, we will be experimenting with the amazing material cardboard and create pathways for marbles to travel down. We will reflect on the value of building marble runs and think...
Learning
Nena WeilerRonen MirNoel JacksonPedro PomboLorenz Kampschulte
In this session we present four practical examples of activities and tools connecting formal and informal education on different levels. Case studies include a national programme connecting science centres and school, a science club run in...
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...
Exhibit development
Caroline BreunesseSjan JanssenIsabelle Du FourJavier Hidalgo Gil
Traditionally, museums of natural history collect stuffed animals. In exhibitions these objects are used to illustrate stories about biology, ecology, biodiversity and species. In order to explain the behaviour of animals, museums often use films...
Open to all pre- and main conference speakers and convenors. Receive a warm welcome from conference hosts, CERN representatives and Ecsite. Enjoy a drink and mingle with other speakers.
The reception will be hosted at on the CERN campus...
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
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...