A Garden of Complexity: Self-Organization in Nature

9453037麦克莱恩探索博物馆将开发一个动手、互动、巡回展览《复杂性花园：自然界中的自我组织》。“使用花园的比喻(一种普遍欣赏的美和沉思的象征)”，并主张“科学的本质是从大自然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。展览将关于模式，以及自然界如何进入被认为是有模式或有组织的状态。这个主题的四个子集将被探索：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--物质的一种不同状态。现有的和新的艺术品/活动都将在这次展览中使用。新增加的内容将由探索博物馆艺术家驻场计划中的个人创作。他们的创作在美学和教育方面都很有趣。此外，展品开发人员将在展品解释方面试验新技术，他们将开展与正规教育相联系的活动。该展览将由科学和技术中心协会在三年内分发给九个地点。预计将达到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.