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"Nuts and bolts":
interactive exibits
Exhibit
development & fabrication
Designs
& performance specifications
Discovery
Disks: mobile mini-interactives
'Beam Cam' projecting video microscope
Underwater
Street Discovery Centre
Moscow
Planetarium
Sellafield
Visitor Centre
'Alternative
energy'
Earth
Science
Fixed
Discovery Disks, Glasgow
Air-table,
telescope, moon-phases
Astronomy
exhibits for Valencia
Biometrics
Magnetic
field exhibit for CERN, Geneva
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: magnetism
Tabletop
Discovery Disks: Light
More
Light interactives
"Academic"
interactives: The Energy Enzyme
"Academic
interactives": Electron beams
"Academic
interactives": Mantle geology
Working
canal-lock model
Virtual
exhibit: Ich bin einmalig
Chemistry
interactives: Chirality
Video
microscopes: Melting crystal
Push-button
quiz: Breath of life
Environmental
& biological
Cookbook
outlines of my 1992 "classical" Great Explorations interactives
Talk to me!
UK phone/fax
+44 (0) 1663 743794
Email ian@interactives.co.uk
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UNDERWATER
STREET - Physical Zone | Imagination
Village | The Lab | Sensory
Area | Art Area | Construction
Area
Underwater
Street
A new children's
discovery centre, Liverpool, UK
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the headings for detailed photographs of each 'zone'.
Underwater
Street opened in Liverpool on 22nd July 2006. It occupies the
basement of Liverpool's famous Cunard Building (adjacent to the Liver
Building) at the 'Pier Head' Mersey Ferry terminal. The entrance is in
Water Street.
Working on this wonderful project has been like a breath of fresh air.
Creativity, sensitivity and cost-effectiveness have not been sacrificed
to glossy packaging, educational tokenism, committees, meetings, or stifling
tenders and contracts.
The development of Underwater Street has been competently and
cost-effectively managed, privately, with none of the usual grant funding,
by Jeff and Gaynor Wallace, on their kitchen table, with their two children,
aged four and seven, as official content-advisors.
Working to a ruthlessly tight 'no-frills' budget, based intuitively on
our combined experience of what children like, over 800 square metres
have been fitted-out more rapidly and cost-effectively than any other
project I have known.
Opening with no expensive advertising campaign, the public response has
been amazingly enthusiastic, feedback is excellent and word-of-mouth recommendation
seems to be spreading fast. A remarkably high proportion of families are
staying for between four and five hours, even on a repeat-visit, and many
children are led out sobbing...
The refreshingly simple aim is to promote play. I believe this is entirely
adequate and profoundly important. It seems to me that the most effective
learning outcome is actually for many grown-ups, to whom the value of
play NEEDS to be promoted.
Please come and see...
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the headings for detailed photographs of each 'zone'.
UNDERWATER
STREET - Physical Zone | Imagination
Village | The Lab | Sensory
Area | Art Area | Construction
Area
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