SHOW REVIEW
FUTURE VISIONS
ECSITE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2015
The science centre and science museum
community met this year
at MUSE in Trento, Italy, and asked what the future might hold
what about? It was a hot topic at this year’s Ecsite Annual Conference, where industry leaders shared their views of tomorrow’s science centre at a pecha kucha forum at MUSE
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They’ll expect interaction and interactivity. They’ll want to infl uence and make a difference. We must use that energy and we must listen to the audience – they’ll expect to be part of the institution.
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innovative, sensory and inclusive. It will be more democratic, involving
attractionsmanagement.com Ann Follin
Tekniska museet Stockholm, Sweden
Future visitors will be well travelled, communicative and constantly connected.
more people from different backgrounds. Science centres need to be accessible for everyone and need to reach out to more people. The next generation of science centres will work closely and cooperate with the audience. This democratic approach takes time, planning and resources. It requires a willingness to let go of control and the courage to actually do so.
cience centres are all about the future – imagining, innovating, inspiring the next generation. But what will science centres themselves be like? What should their missions be? Who will they be talking to, and
Walter Staveloz
Association of Science – Technology Centres (ASTC) Washington, DC
places where we introduce the risk of decision-making based on science. We’ll still inspire kids to be rocket scientists or stem cell researchers, but science centres will also have to teach them how to self-assess what they learn and the skills they need to access the workforce and become science-literate citizens able to make evidence-based decisions.
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Science centres will need to prioritise topics, such as climate change and food security. We’ll increasingly recognise that science centres aren’t separate from politics – that we can play a role in shaping the world. We need to equip people with the skills to use science in their decision-making so they can infl uence the world around them. To do that we must preserve and develop the researcher that’s in every child, and allow them to use their acquired knowledge for the better good. We must introduce philosophy to science centres because the scientifi c method and philosophy have this in common: they build the critical thinking kids and adults need in this world.
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I’m fi ghting the idea that science centres should be safe places for diffi cult conversations. We need to become
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