Art in science museums : towards a post-disciplinary approach

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Rossi-Linnemann, Camilla (Editor), De Martini, Giulia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge research in museum studies.
Subjects:
Science museums > Educational aspects.
Art and science.
Science and the arts.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Preface / Roger Malina
  • 2. Introduction / Giulia De Martini
  • 3. Premise
  • 3.1. How art contributed to the public image of science / Pietro Greco
  • 3.2. Making meaning with art, science and technology / John Durant
  • 4. Art as a narrative tool: seeing the unseen
  • 4.1. house of collaboration: investigating the intersections of art and biomedicine / Louise Whiteley
  • 4.2. Sophia's Whale and the hypercubic showcase of sudden comprehension / Maria Joao Guimaraes Fonseca
  • 4.3. In the spirit of enquiry / James Peto
  • 4.4. Context, collaboration and contemporary culture / Hannah Redler Hawes
  • 4.5. Case studies
  • 4.5.1. Digital art: media and content
  • Case study: ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore (Singapore)
  • 4.5.2. Exhibit design and art
  • Case study: Centrum Nauki Kopernik, Warsaw (Poland)
  • 4.5.3. Re-imagining hard data
  • Case study: Fact, Liverpool (UK)
  • 4.5.4. When the media influences the message
  • Case study: Miraikan
  • The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 4.5.5. Humans and computational creativity
  • Case study: Momath
  • National Museum of Mathematics, New York City, NY (USA)
  • 4.5.6. Artistic activism and narratives on environment
  • Case study: Parque Etnobotdnico Omora
  • Centro Universitario de la Universidad de Magallanes, Puerto Williams (Chile)
  • 4.5.7. Theatre and teaching
  • Case study: Science Centre Singapore, Singapore (Singapore)
  • 4.5.8. power of contemporary art gallery design
  • Case study: The Hall of Biodiversity, Porto (Portugal)
  • 5. Art for science education and enquiry: patterns of thinking
  • 5.1. Exploratorium: art as inquiry / Marina Mcdougall
  • 5.2. Art thinking / Mel Greenwald
  • 5.3. Art as ingredient for meaningful science learning / Samar D. Kirresh
  • 5.4. Answering the unasked questions / Andrea Bandelli
  • 5.5. Case studies
  • 5.5.1. value of artefacts in participatory art
  • Case study: A.M. Qattan Foundation
  • Science Studio, Ramallah (Palestine)
  • 5.5.2. Open-ended exploration
  • Case study: The Tinkering Studio, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (USA)
  • 5.5.3. Participatory performances
  • Case study: Hisa ekspertmentou, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  • 5.5.4. Learning from community centres
  • Case study: MUSE
  • Museo delle Scienze, Trento (Italy)
  • 5.5.5. Video-making and new content producers
  • Case study: National Science Museum, Pathumthani (Thailand)
  • 5.5.6. Curation and open calls
  • Case study: Ontario Science Center, Toronto (Canada)
  • 5.5.7. Encouraging long-term or top management collaborations
  • Case study: Pavilhao do Conhecimento
  • Ciencia Viva, Lisbon (Portugal)
  • 5.5.8. Learning by making
  • Case study: STEAMLabs
  • Maker Place and Maker Bean Cafe, Toronto (Canada)
  • 6. Art, inclusion, controversy and imagination: from facts to values
  • 6.1. Criticality, imagination and interaction: a new basis for art science curation / Mark Wright
  • 6.2. Shifting meaning, shifting contracts
  • biological arts and evolving museum ethics / Ionat Zurr
  • 6.3. Decolonising natural history museums through contemporary art / Bergit Arends
  • 6.4. Case studies
  • 6.4.1. Imagining the future
  • Case study: Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz (Austria)
  • 6.4.2. Questioning the roots of science
  • Case study: CosmoCaixa, Barcelona (Spain)
  • 6.4.3. Artist scientists: enfolding artistic and scientific methodology
  • Case study: Medical Museion
  • University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • 6.4.4. Crossbreeding artistic and scientific research
  • Case study: MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA (USA)
  • 6.4.5. Questioning common museological practices
  • Case study: Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin (Germany)
  • 6.4.6. Tackling "cold" topics through emotions
  • Case study: Quai des Savoirs, Toulouse (France)
  • 6.4.7. Beyond answers: art and good questions
  • Case study: Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin (Ireland)
  • 6.4.8. Art connecting personal meanings and collective standpoints
  • Case study: Wellcome Collection, London (UK)
  • 7. (Open) Conclusions: the post-disciplinary museum / Giulia De Martini.

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