Art in Science Museums : Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Preface
2 Introduction
3 Premise
	3.1 How art contributed to the public image of science
	3.2 Making meaning with art, science and technology
4 Art as a narrative tool: seeing the unseen
	4.1 A house of collaboration: investigating the intersections of art and biomedicine
	4.2 Sophia’s Whale and the hypercubic showcase of sudden comprehension
	4.3 In the spirit of enquiry . . .
	4.4 Context, collaboration and contemporary culture
	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 Etnobotánico 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 The 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 The Exploratorium: art as inquiry
	5.2 Art thinking
	5.3 Art as ingredient for meaningful science learning
	5.4 Answering the unasked questions
	5.5 Case studies
		5.5.1 The 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: Hiša eksperimentov, 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: Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência 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
	6.2 Shifting meaning, shifting contracts – biological arts and evolving museum ethics
	6.3 Decolonising natural history museums through contemporary art
	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 für 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
Index