Sustainability: Promoting Sustainable Decision Making in Informal Education

可持续性：促进非正规教育的可持续决策

• 批准号: 0917595
• 负责人: Marilyn Johnson
• 金额: $ 230.44万
• 依托单位: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917595&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sustainability; Promoting; Sustainable; Decision; Making

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will partner with the City of Portland's Office of Sustainable Development, Metro Regional Government, Portland Community College, Verde, and the Coalition for a Livable Future, to create a series of informal science education experiences on the theme of Sustainability. For this project, sustainability is defined in terms of a triple bottom line of economic, social, and environmental needs. The project responds to calls for broad environmental education of the public in response to environmental crises (such as climate change), and specific research suggesting that even museums that do provide information about such issues rarely help their visitors learn to make the comparisons necessary to make more sustainable choices.For the public audience, the project team will create a 1,500 sq. ft. bilingual (Spanish/English) exhibition to encourage the public to develop skills in making personal choices that affect the sustainability of their community. They will also create 25-40 bilingual cell phone tags that will provide listeners who dial the phone numbers with information, personal perspectives, current STEM research, invitations to contribute ideas or vote on issues, interactive phone-based activities, and links to websites, all in service of helping them make intentional and informed personal decisions on sustainability. The cell phone tags will be located at approximately 100 locations in the Portland area, including predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, public transit locations, public works, and community projects. The team will also create a bilingual website and will offer quarterly bilingual events at the museum on the topic of sustainable living.For the professional audience, the team will create a set of tools and indicators for assessing the sustainability of exhibit-development processes, using the triple bottom line of financial, environmental, and social impacts. For example, a Green Exhibit Guide will provide resources and a checklist for exhibit development projects, and will propose field-wide standards analogous to the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system for green buildings. Regional workshops will engage exhibit developers, designers, fabricators, and administrators in using the tools in their own institutions.The project will create a coordinated set of resources to inform the public about the science of sustainability and to engage them in making informed choices in their daily lives, both in the museum and beyond. The topic of sustainability is timely and important, and the use of cell phones as a mobile technology linked to web resources and an exhibition constitute an innovative synergy of media to create impacts on a city-wide scale. The project serves underrepresented Hispanic audiences through its creation of bilingual materials, placement of cell phone tags, and community involvement in the development process. Finally, the project advances the ISE field in proposing and broadly disseminating a set of standards for green exhibit design, along with developing resources and tools for assessing sustainability. Created in collaboration with other organizations, this work has the potential to reduce the environmental impact of museums while providing highly visible examples of sustainable practices for visitors.

俄勒冈州科学与工业博物馆（OMSI）将与波特兰市可持续发展办公室、大都会地区政府、佛得角波特兰社区学院和宜居未来联盟合作，以可持续发展为主题，创造一系列非正式的科学教育体验。对于这个项目，可持续性是根据经济、社会和环境需求的三重底线来定义的。该项目响应了对公众进行广泛的环境教育以应对环境危机（如气候变化）的呼吁，具体研究表明，即使是提供有关这些问题的信息的博物馆也很少帮助游客学习进行必要的比较，以做出更可持续的选择。英尺双语（西班牙语/英语）展览，以鼓励公众发展技能，作出个人选择，影响其社区的可持续性。他们还将创建25-40个双语手机标签，为拨打电话号码的听众提供信息，个人观点，当前STEM研究，邀请他们就问题提出想法或投票，互动式电话活动以及网站链接，所有这些都有助于他们做出关于可持续性的有意和明智的个人决定。手机标签将位于波特兰地区的大约100个地点，包括主要是西班牙裔社区、公共交通地点、公共工程和社区项目。该团队还将创建一个双语网站，并将在博物馆提供关于可持续生活主题的季度双语活动。对于专业观众，该团队将创建一套工具和指标，用于评估比特币开发过程的可持续性，使用财务，环境和社会影响的三重底线。例如，绿色展览指南将为展览开发项目提供资源和清单，并将为绿色建筑提出类似于LEED（能源和环境设计领先）评级系统的实地标准。区域研讨会将邀请展览开发者、设计师、制作者和管理者在各自的机构中使用这些工具。该项目将创建一套协调的资源，向公众宣传可持续发展科学，并让他们在日常生活中做出明智的选择，无论是在博物馆还是在博物馆之外。可持续性的主题是及时和重要的，使用手机作为一种与网络资源和展览相联系的移动的技术，构成了媒体在全市范围内产生影响的创新协同作用。该项目通过创建双语材料、放置手机标签和社区参与开发过程，为代表性不足的西班牙裔观众提供服务。最后，该项目推进伊势领域提出并广泛传播一套绿色展览设计标准，沿着开发评估可持续性的资源和工具。这项工作是与其他组织合作创建的，有可能减少博物馆对环境的影响，同时为游客提供高度可见的可持续实践范例。