Explainers & visitor services
Camille PisaniMichele LanzingerJean-Marie Sani
Twenty-ten was the International Biodiversity Year and the peak effort to raise awareness about biodiversity and its importance for human well-being. The outcomes were somewhat disappointing as the biodiversity loss is far from being halted....
Exhibit development
Clara Lim
Science centres disseminate science culture by using a senses-on approach, encouraging our audience to look, touch, smell and hear through our exhibits. But is this enough? Is it just the science content and interactive technology of the exhibits...
Explainers & visitor services
Robert WestMikko MyllykoskiIan SimmonsDorothée VatinelMike Bruton
Why and how do science museums engage with sensitive and/or controversial topics in exhibitions and public programmes? Museum locations, governmental relationships, funding sources, political, social and religious environments, and local events...
Research, theory & evaluation
Erik RoupeJoachim LerchHugo VrijdagHans GubbelsMichael Bradke
Science centres and museums play a major role in getting people involved in science and technology. In this session we explore new and different ways of bringing science and technology to “the unusual suspects”: Science and technology...
Exhibit development
Megumi OkuyaMalvina ArtheauMicol MolinariMarc JamousMegumi OkuyaPaweł Barczyńskivincent jouanneau
In the past few years, science centres have been trying to develop their exhibits by taking hints from “gamification”. By doing so, we can reach visitors emotionally and personally so that the messages we want to convey get imprinted in them...
Operations & finance
Erik Jacquemyn
We have seen science centres become dependent on large financial contributors. But if this contributor fails, centres suddenly miss a large amount of their normal income. Therefore, a science centre should diversify and stand on at least three or...
Marketing & communication
Ilona Iłowiecka-TańskaKatarzyna ModrakElisabetta Tola
Image and public recognition are benefits of good media relations. However, hard data from media monitoring show that journalists have their own logic to evaluate attractiveness of news proposed by science centres. Media love events – even those...
Sally DuensingMichiel BuchelRobert FirmhoferAndrea BandelliAntonio Gomes da Costa
Policy making is often associated with bureaucratic and boring decision-making processes, where citizens are nothing but the victims of a system outside of their direct control. And yet, policy making (and having an impact there) is now the...
Operations & finance
Selecting designers and other agencies in creative projects can be an ordeal on both sides of the table. Especially in a time when resources are scarce, we look for efficient ways of selecting and contracting. Classical pitches and modern...
Marketing & communication
Michał BuławaJelena Filipaj
How should a science centre fit into the centre of a city? How should it cooperate with municipal authorities and local communities? And how should it use the surrounding public spaces? Jelena Filipaj will try to answer these questions from the...
Explainers & visitor services
Sophie BougéRémi JeanninMegumi OkuyaFabienne THOMAS
Can the subject of economics be approached in science centres and museums with the same tools used for science and technology? The session will introduce the subject through the example of the exhibition “Economie, Krach, Boom, Mue ?” (...
Exhibit development
Luisa MarinoJurij Krpanlucas eversDidier Laval
Synthetic biology is an emerging, exciting and occasionally alarming field that brings together a diverse group – engineers, scientists, designers, artists and hackers focusing on making life “designable”. As in any new field, the...