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...
Science ♥ society
Tapio KoivuTuomas OlkkuJoona KurikkaLeenu Juurola
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...
Learning
Daniel RosqvistAlfred GrimlundMagne HognestadSara BaggeTor-Inge RasmussenSander KaskMartin Swift
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...
Learning
Sebastian MartinRyan JenkinsRicardo NemirovskyTam DibleyLindsay BalfourLing Ling Chew
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...
Learning
Carlin HsuehMaria ZоlоtоnоsаWalter StavelozYumi MiyaharaMuki Haklay
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...
Exhibit development
Audrey ChangBrad MacDonaldSarah LumbardMichael Haley Goldman
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...
Exhibit development
Julie BeckerLeonel AlegreAlexia JACQUES CASANOVALeonel AlegreDorothée VatinelPeter TrevittSamuel LagierInes MontalvaoMichael FeserAdria LeBoeufJulie BeckerHaydn Antoniw
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 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...
Exhibit development
Stefan FahrngruberMaarten TaborskyClaudia SchleyerJochen HungerMichael BradkeClaire Pillsbury
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...
Equity & Inclusion
Peter TrevittRachael InglisNathalie CapletTheodoros AnagnostopoulosLeticia González
Outreach is a great way to reach new audiences - go to where the people are!
To stretch and challenge our boundaries, this session will first bring together three diverse examples of innovative work in this field: multi-strand approaches...
Research, theory & evaluation
All detailed information about this workshop can be found here.