NOT NATURAL: INTERACTIVE TOUR
Details
Available: 27 February - 28 June 2024
Levels: 7 - 12
Sessions: Tuesday-Friday at 9:30am-10:45am, 11am-12:15pm or 1pm-2:15pm.
Duration: 1.25 hours
Capacity: 50 students (minimum of 20 students)
Cost: A $50 education service fee applies to each booking plus a cost per student (subsidised cost for schools with an ICSEA rating <1000). All prices are inclusive of GST.
Cost per student: $10
Subsidised cost per student: $5
In this facilitator-led experience, students will be guided through the NOT NATURAL exhibition.
The exhibition will explore the friction between cultural perceptions of nature and the implications of creating synthetic forms of life. Advances in synthetic biology have opened a plethora of possibility and a pandoras box of ethical dilemmas. We’ve stepped into a new era, where the tools of genetic engineering and biotechnology allow us to gene-edit, splice and de-extinct almost anything biological. We get to design new life-forms and modify existing ones. But are we redesigning evolution or is evolution re-designing us? And just because we can, should we?
Using their deep knowledge of the exhibition, Learning Experience Facilitators will introduce students to the key concepts and ideas, facilitate group discussions and activities, and prompt students to think critically about the works. Students will have the opportunity to independently explore the exhibition with resources containing thought-provoking questions and reflective activities before sharing their experience with the group.
Key Themes: synthetic biology, de-extinction, eco-detachment, new life forms, genetic engineering, connecting to country, ecosystems, hybrids, otherness, biodiversity, bionic life, romanticism, evolution, engineering and design.
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Identify and connect the key themes and concepts explored in the NOT NATURAL exhibition through the facilitator-led tour of the transdisciplinary works.
Participate in facilitator-led group activities and discussions that prompt critical thinking and provoke curiosity.
Informally engage with university students – who make up our facilitator team - and learn about diverse post-school pathways.
Explore the gallery independently in small teams, interacting with each of the works.
Reflect and share with the group their experience and insights from the exhibition.
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Victorian Curriculum 7-10: Design and Technologies, Digital Technologies, Science, Visual Arts.
Capabilities 7-10: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical, Personal and Social Capability.
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