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Biotechnology can provide solutions to global challenges in several fields including...
Your opportunity to engage in conversation with the best-selling author of The Participatory Museum (2010) and The Art of Relevance (2016) after hearing her keynote in the previous time slot.
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In a world slowly recovering from an economic crisis, sustainability of museums and...
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We all want our visitors to connect with an exhibition and feel something, whether that’s...
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Enjoy a little "pure science" with Pr. Nuno Ferrand, Director of one of the conference's...
In recent years, networks among formal and non-formal organisational structures have become increasingly popular in science education. Those highly complex collaborations offer great opportunities to work as learning communities and foster...
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To thrive in the future, science centres & museums need to connect with increasingly wide and diverse communities. In our digital age, more people expect to participate actively, to create as well as to consume. We live in a ‘participatory...
Most museums have more than one target group: young children, teenagers, school groups, families... Problems arise when audience segments with conflicting needs compete for the use of our spaces and experiences: young children vs. teenagers,...
Not everyone is a maker*, yet everyone “makes” him- or herself through a process of learning. We acquire knowledge from different fields through different channels, in distinct places, with selected people and at certain times. However, some of...
Researchers and creative practitioners focusing on maker practices are increasingly becoming sensitive to the effectiveness of the workshop format in collaborative practices, since most of learning is not the result of instruction but rather of...
This session will explore how the Ecsite community can do more quality Citizen Science (CS) through co-operation. It is linked to the pre-conference workshop “Partnering up for Citizen Science” and aims at discussing the results of the workshop...