discovery rooms at musée des confluences
DESCRIPTION
Hands-on rooms at Musée des Confluences, in Lyon, France / june 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Discovery roomsat
Musée des Confluences
WHAT?
• Explore, wonder over science and society issues
• Scenarisation, space design• Interactive, hands-on experience• Cooperative learning• Customisation• Innovating technologies
WHERE?
HOW?
• Accessibility for disabled visitors• Many group slots• Average duration: 1h• 15 to 20 visitors at the same time• Animators as often as posible
WHO?
• One project manager (waiting for help…)
• Closely working with the animators (one for each discovery room)
• A scientific committee• Erasme innovation center
FIRST TOPICS
• How to create accessible websites?
• Feeding the cities of the world• Me and my voice • Space odyssey
New subjects every year…
A first Discovery room experiment2006-2007
RFID-tagged Stones and virtual animators
Library, Inventory
Tactile globe
The lab
ESPECE(S) D’ANIMAL! (Fall 2007)
First Multitouch table
Experiment
A second Discovery room experimentFall 2008
RFID-taggedpapas and virtual animators
Find the potato among three plants
Create a new potato
Video
game
History of the Potato
Multi
Touch
table
If you were an Andean farmer…
BOITE VOCALE (in progress)
Special
focus on
accessibility