Equity & Inclusion
Luis Azevedo RodriguesSara MiraIvone FachadaHanaa Hosny Ewa Janowska
Developing science programmes for adults is a true challenge for most of science centres and museums.They think they know almost everything, they will come only as accompaniers, and they think they're too old to have fun!
It is a priority...
Learning
Nils Petter HauanJustin DillonAsger HøegBronwyn BevanKrista LeusinkIda Marie Bøe
In this reverse session, we will present five different cases where practitioners and theorists are working together. These cases exemplifies creation of a common ground and understanding. Common for all these innovative activities, is that they...
Research, theory & evaluation
Frans de Waal
Dr. Frans de Waal is a Dutch-American biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behaviour and social cognition of primates. Speech title: Prosocial Primates: The Cooperative Background of Our Species
In my work with monkeys,...
Learning
María MenéndezMarc MoutinAna NoronhaJose Antonio Gordillo Martorell
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Strategy & vision
Andrea BandelliMarta BiarnesJane Chadwick
Some of our science museums have opened their floors to real scientific research and encourage visitors to advance science by participating as experimental subjects.
At the Science Gallery Dublin, visitors smelt worn t-shirts and rated...
Strategy & vision
Jane ChadwickAndrea BandelliLynn ScarffBronwyn Bevan
Evaluation is viewed by many as a necessary chore marginal to the work of museums. We spend time and money, often not enough, on evaluation to satisfy funders and for use in advocacy, but do we really learn, and does that learning instigate...
Research, theory & evaluation
Katrin VohlandBrigitte GschmeidlerChristine MarizziClaudia GoebelPernille HjortTalila Yehiel
Participatory research has emerged as a powerful paradigm, redefining science, education and even citizenship. Especially in the areas of biodiversity observation and nature protection it is a very promising approach for museums and science....
Strategy & vision
Silvia GrabnerAndrea Frantz-PittnerMarika KapanadzeFranz RauchHannu Salmi
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...
Science ♥ society
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Equity & Inclusion
Nathalie CapletIan BrunswickLauren SouterDon UndeenBaerbel AuffermannAnna Omedes
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...
Explainers & visitor services
Paula BäckmanWencke MaderbacherBenedicte WolffKaterina TechlovaChristian Sandberg
We all know stressed-out teachers hanging on the phone, all trying to reach our call centre in the same five minutes of their school break. Or endless conversations with parents to find a birthday party date. Finally, when everything is booked,...
Learning
Jochen HungerAgnes Bauer
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...