A Garden of Complexity: Self-Organization in Nature

复杂的花园：大自然的自组织

• 批准号: 9453037
• 负责人: Kathleen McLean
• 金额: $ 83.09万
• 依托单位: Exploratorium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1997-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9453037&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Garden; Complexity; Self; Organization; Nature

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.

9453037 McLean 探索博物馆将开发一个可实践的、互动的、巡回展览“复杂性花园：自然中的自组织”。 “使用花园的隐喻（普遍认可的美丽和沉思的象征）”并主张“科学的本质是从复杂的自然中提取有组织的观察结果”，该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。 该展览将讨论模式以及自然世界如何进入被认为是有模式或有组织的状态。 将探讨该主题的四个子集；组织成模式；表面效果——摩擦和流动；旋转、循环、涡流和颗粒状态——一种不同的物质状态。 本次展览将使用现有的和新的艺术品/活动。 新增加的内容将由探索博物馆驻场艺术家计划中的个人创作。 他们的创作既美观又具有教育意义。 此外，展览开发商将尝试展览解释的新技术，并将开发与正规教育联系起来的活动。 该展览将由科学技术中心协会在三年内分发到九个地点。 预计将达到250万人。