Sustainability: Promoting Sustainable Decision Making in Informal Education

俄勒冈科学与工业博物馆（OMSI）将与波特兰市可持续发展办公室、大都会地区政府、波特兰社区学院、Verde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。在这个项目中，可持续发展是根据经济、社会和环境需求的三重底线来定义的。该项目回应了对公众进行广泛环境教育以应对环境危机（如气候变化）的呼吁，以及具体的研究表明，即使博物馆确实提供了有关这些问题的信息，也很少帮助游客学会进行必要的比较，以做出更可持续的选择。对于公众观众，项目团队将创建一个1500平方米的空间。举办中英双语（西班牙文/英文）展览，鼓励市民在作出影响社区可持续发展的个人选择时，培养技巧。他们还将创建25-40个双语手机标签，为拨打电话的听众提供信息、个人观点、当前STEM研究、发表意见或投票的邀请、基于电话的互动活动和网站链接，所有这些都是为了帮助他们在可持续发展方面做出有意识和明智的个人决定。这些手机标签将安装在波特兰地区大约100个地点，包括西班牙裔社区、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，并将每季在博物馆举办以可持续生活为主题的双语活动。对于专业观众，团队将创建一套工具和指标来评估展览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，并将提出类似于绿色建筑LEED（能源与环境设计领导力）评级系统的领域标准。区域研讨会将邀请展览开发商、设计师、制造商和管理人员在他们自己的机构中使用这些工具。该项目将创建一套协调的资源，让公众了解可持续发展的科学，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其他地方。可持续发展的话题是适时而重要的，使用手机作为一种移动技术，与网络资源和展览相联系，构成了媒体的创新协同作用，在整个城市范围内产生影响。该项目通过制作双语材料、放置手机标签和社区参与发展进程，服务于代表性不足的西班牙裔受众。最后，该项目推进了ISE领域，提出并广泛传播了一套绿色展览设计标准，同时开发了评估可持续性的资源和工具。与其他组织合作，这项工作有可能减少博物馆对环境的影响，同时为游客提供可持续实践的高度可见的例子。

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.