Catalogo Experimenta 06
Catalogo Experimenta 06
Catalogo Experimenta 06
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PRESENTATION<br />
There are many reasons why the year 20<strong>06</strong> will be remembered, amongst these, twenty<br />
years of <strong>Experimenta</strong>.<br />
It came into being at Villa Gualino, on the Turin hill, when only a few people knew about interactive<br />
scientific exhibitions addressed to the public, <strong>Experimenta</strong> was a pilot experience inspired by<br />
an innovative pedagogical idea to learn through doing.<br />
The success obtained at the outset, thanks to a different approach to scientific themes, was<br />
consolidated and reinforced over time, many followed the example and acknowledged the value<br />
as the presence of <strong>Experimenta</strong> at the Science Festival of Genoa and the SconfinataMente of<br />
Rome demonstrate.<br />
Absolute protagonists are the more than one hundred thousand visitors, (without distinction one<br />
can meet children from kindergarten as well as curious pensioners) who each year venture between<br />
the laboratories and exhibits in an enjoyable challenge, which involves the body and the mind.<br />
The pedagogical innovation and approach to scientific themes - often derived from everyday life<br />
- are accompanied by a far-sighted policy of management of events aimed at involving the world<br />
of training, research and work; over time a network of internal collaboration within the regional<br />
structure, and external to this preparatory to the realisation of a wide range project in the scientific<br />
field, evidence of a past which has seen illustrious scientists work in Piedmont, of a present<br />
no less abundant in innovation and research.<br />
<strong>Experimenta</strong> has left its birth place in Villa Gualino to transfer to the banks of the River Po, in<br />
the area of the ex-zoo, where the route of the interactive exhibition winds between the pavilions<br />
which at one time housed tigers and hippos.<br />
It would have been nice to have reached this birthday with a present, awaited for years, of a definitive<br />
headquarters: we have not managed to do so; however, we re-affirm our commitment to this.<br />
In the future we would like to see that <strong>Experimenta</strong> enlarge its activity also in other provinces<br />
with methods and formulas to be agreed upon, without losing the capacity to learn through amusement,<br />
to understand through action.<br />
Everyday life poses ever more frequently faced with choices that cannot be democratically pursued<br />
without scientific knowledge; with this knowledge Regione Piemonte intends to invest human<br />
and financial resources over the next few years.<br />
The Councillor for Culture and Youth Policies he President of Regione Piemonte<br />
Gianni Oliva Mercedes Bresso<br />
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EXPERIMENTA <strong>06</strong> - INTORNO AL FUTURO: VIAGGIO NELLE TECNOLOGIE INVISIBILI