NoC Museum Project
As emerging technologies move fast, the public has yet to decide what it thinks, and policy strives to keep up. Now is the time to engage in conversation about how these technologies can benefit and not harm humanity and the earth.
Science museums serve as valued institutions where the public engages with fundamental knowledge and important innovations. Though trust in many groups and institutions, including educators higher education, scientists, and government, has decreased in recent years, science museums have fared better than other contexts. By working with public-serving institutions such as museums, academic institutions can bring collaborators’ expertise and resources to benefit public understanding of societally impactful scientific concerns. From there, institutions can encourage the public to take action including engaging with civil organizations and government.
The goal of the NoC Museum Project to help the public to understand human, artificial, and other intelligence through activities at internationally-recognized science museums. In this project, experts across national, sectorial and disciplinary boundaries work with university students to co-develop immersive museum experiences, exhibits and events.
I conducted a pilot of this project in the final BKC Research sprint. In this sprint, interdisciplinary teams of design, engineering, data science, and policy students created data visualizations using city open data and presented their work as exhibits at the Museum of Science.
The next step for this project is to develop a series of exhibits and events for multiple museums in the United States and Brazil. Experts in cognition and psychology, artificial intelligence, technology ethics, and governmental policy will speak at public events and interact with the public. Over time, additional NoC members will be invited to join by sharing their domain expertise and perspectives, bringing their students to the project, building relationships for the project with museums in other global regions, developing museum events, exhibits and experiences, and supporting museums to work with NoC-aided resources.
Science museums serve as valued institutions where the public engages with fundamental knowledge and important innovations. Though trust in many groups and institutions, including educators higher education, scientists, and government, has decreased in recent years, science museums have fared better than other contexts. By working with public-serving institutions such as museums, academic institutions can bring collaborators’ expertise and resources to benefit public understanding of societally impactful scientific concerns. From there, institutions can encourage the public to take action including engaging with civil organizations and government.
The goal of the NoC Museum Project to help the public to understand human, artificial, and other intelligence through activities at internationally-recognized science museums. In this project, experts across national, sectorial and disciplinary boundaries work with university students to co-develop immersive museum experiences, exhibits and events.
I conducted a pilot of this project in the final BKC Research sprint. In this sprint, interdisciplinary teams of design, engineering, data science, and policy students created data visualizations using city open data and presented their work as exhibits at the Museum of Science.
The next step for this project is to develop a series of exhibits and events for multiple museums in the United States and Brazil. Experts in cognition and psychology, artificial intelligence, technology ethics, and governmental policy will speak at public events and interact with the public. Over time, additional NoC members will be invited to join by sharing their domain expertise and perspectives, bringing their students to the project, building relationships for the project with museums in other global regions, developing museum events, exhibits and experiences, and supporting museums to work with NoC-aided resources.