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GP: Fachverband Geschichte der Physik

GP 9: Understanding tools from the distant past

GP 9.1: Talk

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 10:00–10:30, HS 9

The ontological value of scientific objects and social history of science to offer new arenas for public encounter with the various mode of knowledge production. — •Sebastien Soubiran and Delphine Issenmann — Jardin des Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France

The Jardin des Sciences of the University of Strasbourg, sustains and develops a general policy for the preservation and the valorisation of university historical heritage including collections and museums. The investment of the University of Strasbourg is strong and had always been associated with a reflexive approach nourished by a department of Science studies (one of the first created in France).

In our presentation we would like to present various approaches and activities that has been developed so far within the University of Strasbourg with different partners (museums professionals, researchers, curators, designers, artists) in order to experiment different paths to built new tools of social and cultural mediation of science for large public.

We will focus on three specific projects : two exhibitions that were developed with the city museums of Strasbourg and a teaching seminars of history of science and technology for students in physics focuses on objects from physics collections.

With these case studies, we explored and questionned the ontological value of scientific objects and social history of science and science studies at large to offer new arenas for public encounter with the various mode of knowledge production.