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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

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...

Science ♥ society
Annkatrin MeyerNoemie SeiThomas HoferLaura Davidson

Commitment: Climate & biodiversity crisis

Is the contribution to social justice, global equality and planetary wellbeing one of the aims that defines a museum? While the international museum community is still in...

Strategy & vision
Amito HaarhuisLewis HouColin JohnsonCamille Pisani

Amito Haarhuis convenes this check-in session, where our invited guests Lewis Hou, Colin Johnson and Camille Pisani will each discuss one of three commitments they have been following throughout day one and two of the Conference. Lewis Hou will...

Explainers & visitor services
Catherine MurphyInga SpechtMark SchepTania JohnstonOllie Burton

Guided tours provide a special synergy between our visitors, our exhibits, and our staff. They play an important role in the engagement that occurs in science centres and can provide a personal connection between the visitors and our exhibits. In...

Equity & Inclusion
David JonesAlexia Sonnois

​​Commitment: Equity & inclusion

The Equity@Ecsite workgroup organised a webinar for Ecsite Online called ‘Equity and Diversity: an inclusive response to the corona crisis.’ At the...

Science ♥ society
Amanda MathiesonAmanda MathiesonCarl FreeYlenia CallusEdward Duca

Come and play our sustainability-themed virtual escape room run over Zoom! Up to 6 players will control a live actor and solve the puzzles within the time limit. Audience members can join in via the chat.

The year is 2050 and Earth has...

Exhibit development
Harry WhiteSarah AlexanderLisa FinchRyan JenkinsAndreas MattEric Londaits

In this hands-on workshop, developers, educators and artists will share ways that they have remixed and adapted art/science-themed experiences and interactive temporal exhibitions and galleries during the pandemic period. We’ll focus on the...

Exhibit development
Michèle ANTOINEJohn KannenbergMark ReadChristian Rohner

Giving a prominent role to sound is currently a trend amongst museum practitioners. This is unsurprising as our relationship with sound, noise and even silence is fascinating and complex. However, not only is communicating exclusively via sound...

Learning
Carmen FenollosaMaria ZоlоtоnоsаDee HalliganClaudia AguirreSimona Cerrato‫Chagit Tishler

Science engagement institutions can play a major role in transforming the way schools look today. These organisations are generally curious by nature, offer physical interactions with science and technology, in new learning dimensions and always...

Learning
Sebastian MartinJutta SchlöglCeleste MorenoDavid NefRyoko Matsumoto

​Commitment: 21st century skills

Join us for live performances of playful computational activities that are accessible to all learners - a sensor driven chain reaction, a robotic carnival, and more!

It is crucial...

Learning
Amanda MathiesonAmanda MathiesonCarl FreeYlenia CallusEdward Duca

Commitment: Climate & biodiversity crisis / 21st century skills

We invite you to a demonstration of our international, online escape room, ‘Back for the Future,’ where we solve sustainability challenges in order to...

Strategy & vision
Amito HaarhuisLewis HouColin JohnsonCamille Pisani

Amito Haarhuis convenes this check-in session, where our invited guests Lewis Hou, Colin Johnson and Camille Pisani will each discuss one of three commitments they have been following throughout the final day of the Conference. Lewis Hou will be...

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