SWARM: Interactive Tour
Details
Available: 16 August–2 December, 2022
Sessions: 11am & 1 pm, Tuesday to Friday
Session Notes: Tour start times & durations can be adjusted as long as it remains within our gallery opening hours of 11am-5pm, Tuesday-Friday. Please note when booking.
Please get in touch via email if your chosen date is unavailable as we may be able to accommodate additional groups.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Year Level: 7–12
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 low-SES and regional schools). All prices are inclusive of GST.
Cost per student: $8 Low-SES/Regional per Student: $4
In this STEM facilitator-led tour, students will be immersed in transdisciplinary art/science installations on the theme of SWARM. In this exhibition, Science Gallery Melbourne is delving into the science and art behind what it means to be part of a pack. SWARM reflects on the pros and cons of collective behaviour, social movements, artificial intelligence and bio-communities.
Science Gallery learning facilitators & mediators lead students through the interactive exhibition centring thought-provoking discussion, facilitating team activities relating to exhibition themes, and asking the question “How and why do we replicate swarming behaviours?”.
Themes
Artificial intelligence (AI), Swarm behaviour, Biomimicry, Bio-communities, Social movements, Swarm behaviour, Robotics and nanotechnology
Students will…
Undertake a STEM facilitator-led tour of SWARM, engaging with the key concepts of the exhibition.
Informally engage with University student facilitators to learn about STEM pathways.
Work in teams to undertake activities relating to exhibition pieces.
Explore the gallery independently, interacting with each of the works.
Reflect and share with the group their experience and the impact of the exhibition.
Curriculum Links
Capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Capability, Personal and Social Capability
Subjects: Science and Visual Arts
Looking for more?
Did you know that our hands-on workshops also contain a SWARM Interactive Tour? We have full-day and half-day options. Click to find out more!
