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Museums Now: March 2012
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The Serious Side of Play. Lessons learned from the book: Play. By Dr Stuart Brown. Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London. George Bernard Shaw said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing,” and Dr. Stuart Brown. Is in full agreement. Dr. Brown’s recent book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. As well as the producer of a three-part PBS series, The Promise of Play. Other observations highligh...
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Children's Museum of New Hampshire. A leader in distinctive experiential learning and a catalyst for lifelong learning. We here at Gyroscope. Have worked in museums and for museums. The interesting thing about being “on the outside” is that we get to see inside a diverse set of institutions, and cultures. We learn a tremendous amount, and want to share that with you. Museum 2.0 explores ways that web 2.0 philosophies can be applied in museum design. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Museums Now: February 2011
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. Speak Up For Museums. Posted by Chuck Howarth. Links to this post. Friday, February 25, 2011. Two roads diverged, as Robert Frost once wrote. And so it is now for Gyroscope. Our longtime colleague and friend Justine Roberts has come to a crossroads and will be moving on to an exciting new assignment as director of the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire. Justine has been with Gyroscope for…. well, let’s not count the years. Chuck Howarth and Maeryta Medrano. Links to this post.
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Museums Now: April 2011
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Thursday, April 21, 2011. Science-Based Approach for Selecting Green Products. Years ago, one of our first clients was the California Energy Commission who first told us about the BEES software. At the time, it was in Beta testing and only for Windows users. It was not user friendly at all. Now, this version is for Mac platforms too and it's FREE! Economic performance is measured using ASTM http:/ www.astm.org/. Posted by Maeryta Medrano, AIA , LEED AP, President. Links to this post. Last week. The m...
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Museums Now
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The Serious Side of Play. Lessons learned from the book: Play. By Dr Stuart Brown. Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London. George Bernard Shaw said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing,” and Dr. Stuart Brown. Is in full agreement. Dr. Brown’s recent book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. As well as the producer of a three-part PBS series, The Promise of Play. Other observations highligh...
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Friday, October 19, 2012. Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London. By strongly linking important collections and immersive environments to special places, learning goals are enhanced and re-enforced. In fact, spaces influence all of us in many more subtle ways: researchers are finding that memory is enhanced when university students regularly change the locations in which they are studying, resulting the topic of study having additional hooks within the brain. What makes a space special anyway? In Londo...
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Museums Now: January 2012
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Friday, January 27, 2012. Me in 3D: Live Science Research in a Museum Setting. Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London. The new identity exhibit at the Science Museum in London. Includes a gallery called Live Science in which real scientists come into the Museum to carry out their research using Museum visitors as volunteers. The current partnership is called “ me in 3D. How are you using live science or resources in your community to link science to your visitors? Posted by Janet Petitpas. Platform Des...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Up in the Canopy, the Treetop walk at Kew Gardens. Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London. In 2008, Kew Gardens opened The Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway. On International Biodiversity Day. The Treetop walkway is a series of paths and platforms 18 meters (59 feet) up in the air, allowing garden visitors to walk about the tree canopy. At a cost of £3 million, it was designed by Marks Barfield Architects, the firm who also designed the London Eye. We here at Gyroscope.
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Museums Now: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Adventure Playgrounds: A History. Part 2 in a 3 part series. Janet Petitpas, Senior Associate, London, Maeryta Medrano, AIA LEED AP, President of Gyroscope, Inc; Chuck Howarth, VP, Gyroscope, Inc. What is an Adventure Playground? Overall, Adventure Playgrounds have some key attributes:. 8226; The child acts as leader. As early childhood educator Jean Marzollo explains,“A common mistake parents make is ignoring the special ability of children to teach themselves....8226; Real ...