A Garden of Complexity: Self-Organization in Nature

[453037]麦克林：探索博物馆将举办一个亲身体验、互动的巡回展览“复杂的花园：自然界的自组织”。“使用花园的比喻（一个普遍赞赏的美丽和沉思的象征）”，并认为“科学的本质是从自然界的复杂性中提取有组织的观察”，这次展览将允许参观者在安静，沉思的环境中观察一些自组织系统。这个展览将是关于模式的，以及自然世界是如何形成被认为是有模式或有组织的状态的。将探讨这一主题的四个子集；组织成模式；表面效应-摩擦和流动；旋转、循环、漩涡和颗粒状态——物质的不同状态。本次展览将使用现有的和新的艺术作品/活动。新增加的部分将由探索博物馆的艺术家驻地项目中的个人创作。他们的作品在美学和教育上都很有趣。此外，展览开发人员将试验展览解释的新技术，并将开展活动，提供与正规教育的联系。该展览将由科学技术中心协会在三年的时间里在九个地点巡回展出。据估计，这一数字将达到250万人。

9453037 McLean The Exploratorium will develop a hands-on, interactive, traveling exhibit "Garden of Complexity: Self-Organization in Nature." "Using the metaphor of a garden (a universally appreciated symbol of beauty and contemplation)" and arguing "that the essence of science is to extract organized observations from the complexity of nature," this exhibit will allow visitors to observe some of the self-organizing systems in a quiet, contemplative environment. The exhibit will be about pattern and how the natural world emerges into states that are perceived as pattered or organized. Four sub-sets of this theme will be explored; organization into patterns; surface effects - rubbing and flow; rotation, circulation, vortices, and the granular state - a different state of matter. Both existing and new artworks/activities will be used in this exhibit. The new additions will be created by individuals in the Exploratorium's Artists-in-Residence program. Their creations are both aesthetically and educationally interesting. In addition, the exhibit developers will experiment with new techniques in exhibit interpretation and they will develop activities that provide linkages with formal education. The exhibit will be circulated by the Association of Science and Technology Centers to nine sites over a three year period. It is estimated that it will reach 2.5 million people.