This paper presents three lesson activities for upper secondary and higher education that focus on learning by constructing an interactive qualitative representation. By constructing the representation learners learn domain knowledge as well as general system thinking skills. The learning goals and the pedagogical approach are described.
NOVA—The Netherlands Research School for Astronomy—coordinates a group of three inflatable mobile planetariums that visit around 200 primary and secondary schools per year (approximately 30,000 students/year). After an initial stop in activities (March-June 2020) due to the COVID-19 crisis, NOVA has invested in a high quality screen in order to resume planetarium operations safely during the pandemic. The same interactive shows as present-ed in the dome are now given in a large, darkened room projected onto a flat screen with students sitting on cushions in a close group (current Dutch regulations allow close contact between children under the age of 18). A test of this COVID-19-safe “mobile planetar-ium” at a summer school for primary school children (ages 7-11; 180 students; 20 teachers) was highly successful. The evaluation showed that all participants found the experience to be highly inspi-rational. The expert presenters felt that the setup with the screen enhanced the interaction between the presenter and the students.
The expo The Symbiotic City was on display at ARTIS-Groote Museum from 21 June to 5 September 2024. The expo shows a future Amsterdam where nature and people live together in harmony. The images and texts were created during the workshop The Symbiotic City, in which local policymakers, urban ecologists, academics, architects, students and artists unleashed new insights on iconic places in Amsterdam. Thanks to Visual Methodologies Collective, these visions were summarized in AI-generated images. Visitors of the museum could interact with materials from the workshops to contribute with their imaginaries to the exhibition.
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