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Projects > The Moveable Feast
The "Moveable Feast" is an event that travels from one university
to another comibining museum displays and programs iwth the scientific
and artistic talents of the academic community. The topic is the Emergent
Universe and it draws from disparate disciplines: the physical and biological
sciences for conceptual foundations, and art, design and theatre to craft
compelling experiences that bring the science to life.
For its audience, the Moveable Feast intentionally reaches beyond the scientific community into the broader college community, including students and faculty from the humanities and the arts.
Specific content ranges from the collective behavior of electrons in superconducting materials to the emergent properties of neural tissue and social networks. Such disparate topics are brought together under the overarching topic of emergence, which has a broad aesthetic and philosophical appeal.
From one university to another, the constant element is a core traveling exhibition, displayed in the university museum and also distributed across other spaces on teh campus. This collection of robust exhibits and art pieces are created by science museums in collaboration with the scientific community. These are then supplemented by a series of lectures, artistic installations and participatory digital media that would engage the talents of students and faculty at each university. The goal is to not only introduce an important new scientific topic but also to foster interdisciplinary creative collaborations that may lead to new relationships and even new knowledge at each campus.
This idea is currently in an early conceptual phase. In as much as it
brings informal science experiences to college campusses, it could be
a strong candidate for funding that seeks to support innovative forms
of science education. The goal is to establish core partnerships between
science centers and universities, from which to develop a comprehensive
proposal, most likely to the Informal Science Education program of the
National Science Foundation.
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