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Sustainable development, environmental and biodiversity protection, global warming. The Exhibitions at the Science Festival represent an occasion to dwell on our time's big environmental issues, to look around the secrets of science thanks to interactive approaches, transversal languages, interdisciplinary contents. The Antarctic. Earth's white heart Suitable from 6 years old. Recommended for schools. The International Polar Year, launched in 2007 an lasting till 2009 is an unmissable opportunity to discover our Planet’s Polar regions, which are the last virgin lands on the Earth. They are really important from several points of view - climatic, naturalistic, historical, scientific, social - …all fields where international cooperation is the rule and not the exception! On this occasion, the National Museum of the Antarctic in Genoa organises a suggestive outdoor exhibition featuring 80 pictures by internationally renowned photographers. The pictures show the picaresque life of scientists in the stations of the Antarctic and the most spectacular landscapes of the “white continent”. (Exhibition organised by the National Museum of the Antarctic in Genoa and the Association of the Science Festival) From the Earth to the Boundaries of Universe Suitable from 9 years of age. Recommended for schools. Lights, images, sounds and settings will transport all visitors from the Earth to Mars and Saturn passing through the Moon and finally arriving on a Comet. The adventure continues in the Deep Space. In a reconstruction of the Earth we will find all phenomena essential for its future. They will be described through a series of images, even satellite ones, with a great impact on the viewer: desertification, pollution, climate changes. From the Earth to the Universe, passing through the whole Solar System: covered by images you’ll manage to see Mars colours and continue your adventure passing through the nucleus of the Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet. You will land on the comet thanks to a model of the Philae Lander. The challenge of exploring ends with a visit to Deep Space, where you can observe the deep space through a telescope able to see the boundaries of Universe. (Exhibition organised by ASI – Italian Spatial Agency.) Skies From the World Suitable for children from 4 to 10 years of age. Recommended for schools Stars shine every night over our heads. Though sky landscape is not precisely the same for everybody, thanks to this exhibition you will realize that the appeal of the sky is exactly the same everywhere in the world! First stage: a show collecting all works on myths and legends coming from all over the world and represented into the planetary circulating workshop: Starlab. Second stage: children will be able to play some simple games, thus communicating their idea of our world using both expressive and manipulating techniques. A performance-conference will lead children to discover African myths and legends . Some astronomers from South Africa will be participating. (Exhibition organised by the Astrophysics Laboratory of Arcetri - INAF - in cooperation with the International project “Universe Awareness”). In Africa: Shapes, Colours, Emotions Suitable for everybody. Recommended for schools. African nature’s colours, charm and energy, together with the dignity of African people, will be the core of an outdoor exhibition in the hearth of the City of Genoa. Striking images, taken throughout years of reportages in Africa, from the deserts of Namibia to the forests of Rwanda, from Sahara to the Rift Valley lakes. Visitors will dwell on the beauty and the frailty of our planet, as well as on the importance of environmental protection for future generations. (Exhibition organised in cooperation with the Jane Goodall Institute - Italy) The secrets of life among Polar Ice Suitable from 6 years of age. Recommended for schools. Thanks to this exhibition, we will discover how life is in the Poles and understand the reason why the North and South Poles are fundamental for our planet’s climatic balance. An interactive model of the Earth will reveal us all the secrets that lay behind icebergs. A simulation will explain us the function of warm water flows in the ocean. This exhibition also shows technologies and instruments used by several famous explorers in order to conquer the Poles and it ends with an overlook of the most important research activities undertaken in the Polar Ice. (Exhibition organised by the Tridentino Natural Science Museum) Marvels of Science – Looking Around Among Materials Suitable from 6 years of age. Recommended for schools. This year again, the exhibition offers new transformations and marvels: thanks to several exhibits, you will enjoy a striking interactive journey through the discovery of the structure and the properties of different materials. You will also have the chance, thanks to the numerous exhibits, to see what happens inside an optical fibre, and discover the revolutionary news on Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) destined to change light systems, you will be left astonished by the lotus effect which occurs to some materials: surfaces with the same structure of lotus’ leaves repel water droplets and stay dry. (Exhibition co-organised by the University of Genoa, CNR-PSC and the Association of the Science Festival) Life Suitable for everybody. Recommended for schools. A photographic planetary journey on the trail of evolution through the eyes of the globetrotter photographer Frans Lanting. These pictures, laid out for the first time in Italy, tell us about the mystery of the origins of life, showing us how the Earth should have been a million of years ago. The exhibition ends with a presentation by Frans Lanting and a symphonic concert by Philip Glass. It will be the European première for this exceptional multimedia masterpiece. (Copyright by Frans Lanting) Metamorphosis of Sense. Invention and Harmony Contests in Paganini's House. For everybody Thanks to new technologies, science is given a new chance to investigate on sensitive qualities; senses discover the fascinating game of their mutual weavings, the expressive possibilities of interchange, the joyful discoveries of creative grafts. (Organized by the InfoMus Lab - Paganini House) Mini Darwin at Galápagos A journey following in Charles Darwin's footsteps in order to discover evolutionism and understand the importance of protecting our environment and our biodiversity: all this thanks to a fascinating set representing Galapagos that will give you the opportunity to learn something about the islands, their biology, their earth and marine geology and to know evolution, as far as species conservation, biodiversity and sustainability are concerned. In this exhibition you will find images and reconstructions of animals living in the islands, you will look at some photos and short films on Darwin's expedition in the 19-th century as well as at hypertexts useful for learning all secrets of mimicry and evolution. (Project organised by SISSA Medialab) Telecom Area For everybody Telecom "Project Italy", partner and founder of the Science Festival, will be at Genoa for the 5th consecutive year with its Telecom Area, where it will offer you a personal interpretation of the official theme of the Festival: "curiosity". Project Italy, through the realisation of an innovative spectacular project, will lead visitors behind the scene of the world of cinema, thus confirming its engagement in the dissemination of new technologies and its will to make them more accessible and understandable for everybody. All this from 25th October to 6th November at the Telecom area, Party square, Old Port of Genoa. Tomorrow. The Sensible Future Suitable from 9 years of age. Recommended for schools. The theme of sustainable development is the focus topic of the Tomorrow Project. The main goal of this exhibition and its related conferences is to boost a reflection on the major challenger, which our planet will be compelled to face in the coming years: global warming and the exploitation of natural resources. Where does the current deep environmental crisis of our planet come from? Are there any viable solutions to it, and if so, which ones? With the knowledge that a strong social and political engagement on an international scale is necessity, so that we can focus on an adequate strategy for the safeguard of the ecosystem and to promote at the same time new energy policies and new behaviours and lifestyles.Tomorrow offers up its spaces as a symbolic forum for discussion and will face the theme of our tomorrow, by using works and installations of international artists and designers, such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Armin Linke, Yi Zhou, Edoardo Malagigi – and interactive stations, to experience sophisticated systems which measure atmospheric streams and allow us to calculate our own "ecologic footprint". (The exhibition is organised by "Codice Idee per la Cultura" on behalf of the Science Festival and realised with the cooperation of "Città dell'arte – Fondazione Pistoletto" and the University of East Piedmont). Volcanoes: Explosions and Effusions Suitable for everybody. Recommended for schools. The story of a long journey will lead the visitors to discover the secrets of our planet, the world of volcanoes and their role from the birth of the Earth to present days. Plastic reconstructions, 3D projections and short films will give you the chance to look at spectacular volcanic eruptions. At the beginning of the exhibition, a big model of a volcano will welcome all visitors: you can find out what hiddens into a crater and look at a simulated eruption. (Event organised by the National Institute of Geophisics and Volcanology – INGV) > Back to top |
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