Indianapolis as a Living Laboratory: Science Learning for Resilient Cities

印第安纳波利斯/城市生活实验室(I/CALL)是一个城市范围内的民间合作，从事跨部门研究，建立在公共环境中非正式科学学习的先前研究的基础上。它扩展了以场所为基础的研究和服务学习传统，并将城市本身用作环境可持续发展的科学和工程学习成果的非正式科学学习(ISL)环境。该项目正在创造以地点为基础的科学学习体验，作为印第安纳波利斯公共空间的一部分，并建立下一代城市科学博物馆，增加学习机会。该项目将为艺术/科学合作开发一个自我维持的计划，因为他们在I/Call站点启用了城市批准的可变装置。该项目的数据将被用来通知社区和全国各地博物馆的ISL专业人员。数以千计的志愿者和他们的家人将帮助创建I/Call空间，参与社区，并作为研究参与者通过网站开发与科学学习联系起来。该项目的规模史无前例，在城市范围内提供了非正式科学服务学习的全面衡量标准，提供的数据可以改变科学学习的衡量方式，改变各行各业的人如何将科学素养作为其社会公共体验的一部分，并体现了城市作为活的科学学习实验室的概念。更广泛的影响包括将城市发展为非正式的科学学习环境，这将成为思考城市作为文化单位可以成为什么的新标准，因为我们为环境可持续发展建立了具有弹性的科学和工程文化。

Indianapolis / City as Living Laboratory (I/CaLL) is a city-wide civic collaboration engaging in cross-sector research that builds on prior research in informal science learning in public settings. It extends research in place-based and service learning traditions, and uses the city itself as an informal science learning (ISL) environment for Science and Engineering for Environmental Sustainability learning outcomes. This project is creating place-based science learning experiences as part of public spaces in Indianapolis and establishes the next generation of urban science museums that increase opportunities for learning. The project will develop a self-sustaining program for art/science collaborations as they inaugurate city-sanctioned changeable installations at I/CaLL sites. Data from the project will be used to inform ISL professionals at museums throughout the community and around the country. Thousands of volunteers and their families will help create I/CaLL spaces, engage with communities, and serve as research participants connecting with science learning through site development. The unprecedented scale of this project provides a full measure of informal science service learning at a city scale, offering data that can change how science learning is measured, how people from all walks of life develop science literacy as part of their social public experience, and embodying the concept of the city as a living science learning lab. Broader impacts include the development of the city as an informal science learning environment that will become a new standard for thinking about what cities as cultural units can become as we build a resilient Science and Engineering culture for Environmental Sustainability.