Specialist Seminar:
Planning for flexibility and change

20 November 2003

Ecsite-uk specialist seminars and workshops aim to strengthen networking between Science and Discovery Centres, and improve professional practice through international skill sharing.

Presentations

The Only Permanent Feature: Change
Dr Per-Edvin Persson, Director, Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre

A science centre operates like a cinema or a theatre: people come for the programming (contents) in addition to spending a good time. Heureka renews 50% of its exhibition space every year.

The only permanent feature: Change. Presentation slides including data from Heureka. (PDF file 382K)
Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre
 

Learning and Change: from macro to micro
Sally Duensing, Director, Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS), UC Santa Cruz

This talk takes the point of view that the heart, soul and life of science centers is that the ideas themselves are not static, but continually change and these changes can increase the effectiveness of the idea and thus the effectiveness of an institution.

Learning and Change: from macro to micro. Text giving summary of presentation. (PDF file 22K)
Center for Informal Learning and Schools
 

Flexibility and Change: The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly
Barry Aprison, PhD, Director of Science and Technology, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

Barry uses the example of the Museum of Science and Industry's Genetics: Decoding Life exhibition to show how on-going development can be managed.

Flexibility & Change: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Presentation slides (PDF file 348K)