Michele Pedrazzi Asteria Multimedia, Trento
Fixing a Sulfureus Compound: Science, Technology, Sicily EASST 2010 Track 1: Artificial life
MUSEO DELLE SOLFARE DI TRABIA-TALLARITA
(Trabia-Tallarita Mine, Caltanissetta, Sicily, 2010)
Designing for science
Exploratorium (San Francisco, 1969)
Solfara di Trabia-Tallarita with museum location
The Area
Power plant building
Inside the power plant
Science centre or industrial heritage?
American Precision Museum (Windsor, Vermont, 1966)
“Industrial heritage presents science entirely contextualized in a slice of history in a specific community, whereas science centres are more concerned with universal laws and principles, which transcend particular times and places� Sharon Macdonald, The Politics of Display
Positive science visions
Hidden bombs
Working in the mine
The Carusi
Commemorating the mining epos
A hybrid show
Sketching the sulfureus compound
The exhibition
Building the gate
The entry gate
The visitors’ route
The elevator
The elevator
Immersive room
Immersive room
The engines
X-ray engine
X-ray engine
Speaking engine
Sounding engine
Sounding engine
Science exhibits
Science exhibits
Timeline binary
Timeline
Walking on the timeline
Linear discourse
Assembly space
Without any physical partition to mark our exhibition, the limits between science and society were merely a feature of our discourse.
Opening (March 8th 2010)
Assemblage: Making Things Public (ZKM Karlsruhe 2005)
“We assemble because we are brought by divisive matters of concern into some neutral, isolated place in order to come to some sort of provisional makeshift (dis)agreement�
Bruno Latour, Making Things Public (Exhibition Catalogue)
By blurring a zone between aesthetics, entertainment, reasoning, persuasion one can even try to blur between the categories of “science” and “society”.
Blurred: The Weather Project (Tate Modern 2003)
BIBLIOGRAPHY Alfrey, Judith and Putnam, Tim 1992 The Industrial Heritage, London: Routledge. Basso Peressut, Luca 1998 Musei per la Scienza. Spazi e luoghi dell’esporre scientifico e tecnico, Milano: Lybra Immagine. Latour, Bruno 2005 Introduction in Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds.) Making Things Public– Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. Macdonald, Sharon The Politics of Display. Museum, Science, Culture, London: Routledge. 1998 Oppenheimer, Frank 1968 “Rationale for a Science Museum”, The Museum Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 3, p. 206-209.