The object of art in science

bringing together science and art installations as a means of conveying scientific knowledge in an attractive, understandable and memorable way

SciCom

• use of skills, means, activities, and dialogues adapted to produce one or more of the following personal responses towards science: Awareness, Enjoyment, Interest, Opinion-forming and Understanding (AEIOU approach)

Why art?

• integrate info with imagination
• conceptualize the reality
• multisensory experience
• adapted by participants
• experiential learning

Hypothesis: experiential learning achieves long-term knowledge acquisition

Objectives

• To explore the capabilities of art installations with respect to the communication of scientific knowledge.
• To evaluate how participants understand and remember scientific information from an art installation as compared to a list of scientific facts.

Methodology

• Designing an art installation
• Selecting participants (18 + 18)
• Setting a place
• Giving a list of facts
• Creating an art installation (group 2)
• Applying the measure
• Applying the measure after 2 months

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Measure: Retell, Identify, Remember, Contextualize (RIRC)

Results

• During the first session there was no significant difference between the overall outcomes of the factual and art installation group.
• The art installation group showed an improved performance in the second session.