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Contact:
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Shell
Amega
or Paula Wagner
213.744-7446 |
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February
7, 1998
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Creative
World Exhibition Hall
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| Description: |
Creative
World examines the environment humans build to meet
their needs for structures, transportation and communications.
From computer technology and digital imaging to
solar cars and earthquake-resistant buildings, Creative
World showcases the wonders and consequences of
human innovation.
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| Educational
goals: |
"You
can unlock the power of technology when you understand
the science behind it." Visitors discover that all
technology is based on science they can understand.
They also learn that the use of technology requires
the evaluation and management of environmental consequences.
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Exhibit
highlights: |
Visitors
enter Creative World through Technoscapes, which introduces
the main ideas of the exhibition hall through laser
animation flashing across a three-dimensional city
street sculpture. Realistic looking replicas of cars,
building blocks and people create the sculpture and
were cast from plaster molds of real objects and people.
The use of laser, video and audio imagery inspires
exploration to make the connections between science,
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Creative
World galleries show visitors the science behind
technology created to meet three basic needs:
- Communication
- how to send and receive a message
- Transportation
- how fuel is turned into motion
- Structures
- how structures are made strong
Visitors
exploring the three galleries can:
- Play
a guitar, keyboard or drums in a Digital Jam Session.
- Feel
like a real winner diving into a game of volleyball
or soccer in virtual games.
- Build
a structure and see how it stands up to an earthquake.
- Experience
a simulated earthquake while taking a behind-the-scenes
tour of the Science Center.
- See
a real crash test dummy family and become smart
about car safety.
- Pilot
a virtual hovercraft over land and sea.
- Journey
with the animated claymation characters, "The
Globeheads," while learning how to conserve
and protect the Earth’s resources.
Video
Periscope is an interactive exhibit in the communications
gallery designed to enable visitors inside the Science
Center to communicate audiovisually with people
in a completely different location. The exhibit
consists of video cameras and display monitors,
one set in Creative World and another on the first
floor of the Science Center. Media links allow visitors
to exchange information and participate in fun activities
reflecting what they are experiencing at each site.
New sites, located in and around Los Angeles, will
come on-line in the future.
The
Creative World Discovery Room takes the form of
a city street scene which includes a Construction
Zone and Hardware Store for building structures
and contraptions, and a child-sized TV studio with
a camera. There is always something to touch, explore,
and learn with age-appropriate discovery box activities.
Each box provides children and their families with
intriguing hands-on, minds-on experiences for young
and old alike.
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| Curator: |
David
Bibas, Ph. D. |
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Exhibition
Designer: |
West
Office Exhibition Design, Oakland, California |
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| Major
funding provided by: |
Transportation
Gallery:
Structures Gallery:
Communications Gallery:
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Hewlett-Packard Company and Hewlett-Packard Company
Foundation
Creative World Discovery Room:
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The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
- National
Science Foundation
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