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Michele PedrazziAsteria Multimedia, Trento
Fixing a Sulfureus Compound:Science, Technology, Sicily
EASST 2010Track 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, whereasscience centres are more concerned with
universal laws and principles, whichtranscend 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 markour exhibition, the limits betweenscience 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 broughtby divisive matters of concern
into some neutral, isolated placein order to come to some sort of
provisional makeshift (dis)agreement”
Bruno Latour, Making Things Public (Exhibition Catalogue)
By blurring a zone betweenaesthetics, entertainment,
reasoning, persuasionone can even try to blur
between the categories of“science” and “society”.
Blurred: The Weather Project (Tate Modern 2003)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alfrey, Judith and Putnam, Tim1992 The Industrial Heritage, London: Routledge.
Basso Peressut, Luca1998 Musei per la Scienza. Spazi e luoghi dell’esporre scientifico e tecnico,
Milano: Lybra Immagine.
Latour, Bruno2005 Introduction in Latour, B. and Weibel, P. (eds.) Making Things Public–
Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Macdonald, Sharon1998 The Politics of Display. Museum, Science, Culture, London: Routledge.
Oppenheimer, Frank1968 “Rationale for a Science Museum”, The Museum Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 3,
p. 206-209.