The SFI report Crisis and Disaster Resilience 2030 focused on a deep analysis of future emergency management needs. The more recent document Toward More Resilient futures: Putting Foresight Into Practice shifts the focus from theory towards practice.
In a peacock's mother-of-pearl tail, precisely arranged hairline grooves reflect light of certain wavelengths. Imitating this system has been a leading approach to developing next-generation reflective displays.
I love this... I've been singing praises of nano-particles and future where printed materials shine like butterfly wings. I'll take peacock. I know displays are in--but do think there is a 'paint' element for museum exhibits to explore in future.
A team of researchers across Europe is conducting an experiment to bring the museum into the school using virtual reality technology.
CONNECT project
The CONNECT project team believes that by linking the classroom with science centres, museums, planetariums and observatories, it can marry the best elements of formal curricula with informal learning.
link four science centres with participating classrooms in each country.
demanding technical challenges. A museum needs a series of access points around the various exhibits, for example, so students can really ‘visit’ the museum instead of watching a series of presentations. ‘In some museums that’s easy because there are high ceilings to fix the access points, in others it’s quite a challenge,’ explains Sotiriou …
In its software, CONNECT has produced a stunning virtual museum, featuring colourful, exciting graphics that allow a student to try experiments and then view the results. This advanced learning environment is called the CONNECT Virtual Science Thematic Park –
SCIENCE fiction often gets a bad press from scientists, but firing our imagination about science and technology is absolutely vital.
Sharing a vision of the good society, in which everybody has what they need to live well, is crucial to working towards it. So how do we imagine the contribution of science and technology to creating just futures?
Historic house museums are adapting for the future too! And, if you have any interest in what those of us in the historic house field do and think, I strongly urge you to subscribe to Max's blog if you don't already.
The heart of the game design seeks to create a playful, inclusive common ground where information and idea sharing happens, where everyone's thoughts about the future have a place, and where a meaningful dialog and a common ground can be created to replace the animosity that these topics can evoke. And this is done using an "old-time" technology: voicemails!
Why has recognising the deep future been so difficult for humanity? Why, after discovering the place of the Earth in the solar system, the place of the solar system in the universe, the age of the Earth, the age of the universe, and evolution by natural selection over aeons of Earth’s history, do we still need to be prodded to perform the simple act of turning around, to position ourselves to see both forward and back in time?
The world according to the Extrapolation Factory, a group of New York designers using a mixture of expert reports and crowd-sourcing to create products anywhere from 10 to 10,000 years in the future.
MBA in Strategic Foresight is designed to develop leaders who can inspire companies, NGOs, and governments to imagine better futures. Students also learn to manage the processes of creating and implementing new business models and strategies in order to make those futures real.
The future of sustainablity museums structures may benefit from: asphalt that re-sets itself with a dose of induction heating, concrete that patches up crack with the help of its living bacterial aggregate, and a recent discovery that some metals have self-healing properties.