Equity & Inclusion
Sharon AmentKaren PetersonJennifer BreslinAnita Krishnamurthi
Commitment: Equity & inclusion
Less than 25% of computer science and engineering students are women and far fewer graduate and pursue careers in those fields (National Science Board, 2018). Women remain drastically...
Learning
Maya HalevyBirgit MagerDee HalliganDaniel Charny
In this session, Mariano Gago Ecsite Award winner Maya Halevy explores the topic of service design in museums and education fields with world-class professionals in the field. Service design is a new field that helps choreograph the processes,...
Strategy & vision
Maren KrumdieckPaul VoogtMohammad RuhaiyemAyman ElsayedAnna Omedes
In this pecha kucha type session new science centres, science museums, exhibitions... that are currently in the start up and/or design phase will be presented. Presenters will give a short overview of their project. What are their goals and...
Research, theory & evaluation
Marie HobsonAlex FairheadLaura DavidsonSiobhan Starrs
There has been increasing recognition of the role museums should play to address the planetary emergency. To incite social change, we need to close the gap between concern and action.
The first step in closing this gap is increasing the...
Time to dig out those fancy clothes that you haven’t been able to wear in over a year! The more sparkles, the better, as you go and get ready for Ecsite goes Eurovision. Make sure you're back at the stage for 17.15 CEST.
Learning
Carmen FenollosaMaria ZоlоtоnоsаMargaret HoneyMaya HalevyAriel Knafo
Despite all the transformation of our society over the past century little has changed in the education system since the 19th century. The pandemic has just put more pressure on an unfit education system: a divide between rich and poor, lack of...
Equity & Inclusion
Laura VerbeekGiulia GhezziLorenz KampschulteCatherine OualianEsther GajekKatharina Hof
Commitment: Equity & inclusion
What are seniors’ special needs? Or, if we throw away all our prejudices about being frail or slow, do we find out that they are just like us - longing for a connection, for competence...
Science ♥ society
Amparo Leyman PinoSteven SchaekenWouter VerbiestMaarten TaborskyAmparo Leyman PinoPaul OrselliMichael FeserAnna Schaefers
Let’s do it again! Share your wildest ideas. In 2019, Experimentarium saw the birth of Ecsite’s very first Idea-Jam session. Many wild ideas were shared, from Rhythmetariums to Flying Science Saucers and Second Childhood Museums. The...
Exhibit development
Audrey O'ConnellAgnes RuizFlora PloquinAlanna DavidsonMatthew HeenanSøren SkarbyEmily CroninIlse WachtelaerPeter ElsaesserBettina Deutsch-Dabernig Luísa CannasValentine BaldacchinoCorinne BoungoAurora MoreiraPaolo Russo
A preview of current and upcoming touring science exhibitions across Europe and the world. This fast-paced session will give you a glimpse of a large range of exhibitions on offer, leaving it up to you to make contacts and find out more.
Learning
Ryan JenkinsVanessa MignanSebastian MartinMonika MayerSamar D. Kirresh
In this fun and informal social makerspace meeting we’ll provide an opportunity for members of the Ecsite makerspace planning team, Tinkering Workroom participants and Conference attendees to share hands-on projects that they have been working on...
Learning
Mairéad HurleySophie PerryAutumn BrownARIS PAPADOPOULOS
Join us in this relaxed session to make your own zine (a small, handmade paper booklet), in which you'll reflect on your experience of the Conference so far! Hosts will lead you through the simple folding process and provide prompts as...
Strategy & vision
Mikko MyllykoskiRosalia VargasAndres RoldanRobert FirmhoferSawsan Dalaq
"To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do." Bertrand Russel
All over the world, instead of thousands of visitors interacting with our...