02/03 01:01:11—31:12:11 SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01.01.11 — 31.12.11 RE COVER: The Dymaxion 01 : INTRODUCTION ............................. 02 Air-Ocean Map, invented by R. Buckminster Fuller. It has 02 : BACKGROUND ............................... 04 the virtue of representing all the continents as a single 03 : THE NUMBERS ............................... 06 landmass and archipelago. 04 : 2011 IN REVIEW ............................. 14 05 : EVENTS IN 2011 ............................. 24 06 : EDUCATION & OUTREACH ............. 28 07 : PLANS FOR 2012 ............................ 30 08 : COMMUNITY .................................. 32 09 : VISITOR FEEDBACK ........................ 34 10 : THE GLOBAL STAGE ....................... 36 11 : COMMUNICATIONS ........................ 42 12 : THE VENUE .................................... 44 13 : SUPPORTERS ................................. 45 14 : FINANCIAL REPORT ....................... 46 15 : GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP ....... 48 16 : GOVERNANCE BOARD .................... 50 17 : LEONARDO GROUP ........................ 52 SCIENCE GALLERY ANNUAL REVIEW 2011 :VIEW SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01.01.11 — 31.12.11 01: INTRODUCTION — CHAIRMAN & DIRECTOR —— In February 2008, a car park on a forgotten —— ELEMENTS, developed with Trinity College Dublin’s 02/03 corner of Pearse Street was transformed into a living School of Chemistry, explored the art and science of the experiment that would bridge art and science, engage periodic table and subsequently toured to BergamoScienza, young adults with innovation and inspire them to a major Italian science festival. —— Our final exhibition of realise their creative potential. Established by Trinity 2011, SURFACE TENSION: The Future of Water, explored College Dublin in 2008, Science Gallery is a new issues of scarcity, pollution and our industrial, agricultural kind of space where science and art collide, a porous and domestic uses of water through art, science and membrane between the university and the city. Science engineering with the support of the EC Seventh Framework Gallery programmes are designed to do three things: Programme (through StudioLab) and the Environmental to encourage active participation in science and Protection Agency. —— In the summer of 2011, Science innovation, to stimulate new kinds of social connections Gallery exhibition BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body also across traditional boundaries, and to surprise and travelled to New York for the World Science Festival as part capture the imagination with the potential of new ideas. of Culture Ireland’s Imagine Ireland programme. —— A highlight of 2011 was the announcement in December —— In spite of an increasingly challenging economic of a transformational €1m gift from Google.org to support environment, 2011 was a year of significant growth in reach the creation of the Global Science Gallery Network, in and impact for Science Gallery, with 242,189 visitors (a 19% partnership with leading universities in major urban increase in visitor numbers with respect to 2010) making centres worldwide. We are currently in discussions about us one of the top ten free visitor attractions in Ireland, establishing Science Gallery in cities including London, a 21% increase in turnover and an operating surplus. New York, Moscow, Singapore and Bangalore, with the Science Gallery also kicked off its StudioLab project in 2011, goal of establishing eight Science Galleries worldwide by following a successful bid for the European Commission’s 2020. —— We would like to thank sincerely the partners first call for projects bridging art and science, with partners and supporters that have helped Science Gallery to reach including the Royal College of Art (London), Le Laboratoire this exciting milestone, including Trinity College Dublin, (Paris), Ars Electronica Futurelab (Linz) and MediaLab the Wellcome Trust, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Prado (Madrid). —— Science Gallery’s online reach and Gaeltacht, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, social media presence continued to increase significantly in Science Foundation Ireland, our 2011 Science Circle – Dell, 2011. A highlight in March was our recognition by the Shorty Google, ICON, PACCAR – and our founding patrons Dr Awards with the award for Best Cultural Institution on Twitter Martin Naughton and Dr Beate Schuler. We would also like Worldwide, presented at a New York ceremony by Kiefer to acknowledge the incredible support and participation Sutherland. In October we were delighted to be honoured of the extended Science Gallery community – in particular with the Irish Web Award for Best Education and Third our Leonardo group, student mediators, members+ and Level Website. —— Through five ambitious exhibitions, those who donated to Science Gallery in 2011. —— Science Gallery provoked discussion and engagement We look forward to working with you during the Dublin City and probed the ethical questions and dilemmas around of Science Festival in 2012, and beyond, to ignite creativity current biomedical research in dialogue with the arts and and discovery where science and art collide! design. —— VISCERAL: The Living Art Experiment was a major collaboration with the SymbioticA programme in the University of Western Australia. For the first time ever we took blood from our visitors and challenged them to have their white blood cells compete in mortal microscopic combat. —— MEMORY LAB was a ‘Lab in the Gallery’ Michael John Gorman — DIRECTOR exploring memory, developed with Professor Shane O’Mara […] Science Gallery is one of the places that most of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. Involving 11 research experiments, it also encouraged visitors to share inspires the Exploratorium because it works against their earliest memories with us in a mass participation type. It consciously avoids easy categorization and experiment. —— HUMAN+ was a major collaboration Chris Horn — CHAIRMAN with Trinity College Dublin’s School of Medicine and the constantly experiments. We find our best company Trinity College Long Room Hub to explore the future of our intellectually among such daring misfits […] species, with key support from the Wellcome Trust through a Society Award. From retinal prosthetics to new reproductive Dennis M. Bartels, CEO of Exploratorium, San Francisco technologies and a euthanasia roller coaster, HUMAN+ attracted significant international interest and reaction. SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01.01.11—31.12.11 02: BACKGROUND 04/05 About us: A ground-breaking initiative by Trinity College Dublin, Science SCIENCE GALLERy’S Gallery first opened its doors in 2008. To date, over 800,000 people have experienced 21 exhibitions at Science Gallery, ranging from light to love and MISSION IS TO IGNITE from contagion to the future of the human species. The gallery has created a loyal following of visitors and built a strong community through an ever- CREATIVITY AND changing programme. It has been supported and helped by the expertise of scientists, researchers, students, artists, designers, creative DISCOVERY WHERE thinkers and entrepreneurs, creating a unique model of engagement with science, aimed particularly at the hard SCIENCE AND ART to reach 15–25 year age group. Science Gallery is focused on providing programmes and experiences that allow visitors OUR VISION IS TO BE THE to participate and facilitate COLLIDE. social connections, while WORld’s leading enteRPRISE always providing an element of surprise. —— Science Gallery FOR INVOLVING, INSPIRING is kindly supported by the Wellcome Trust as founding AND TRANSFORMING CURIOUS partner, and by 2011 Science Circle supporters DELL, Google, ICON and PACCAR. MINDS THROUGH SCIENCE. Science Gallery also receives We will achieve this by encouraging our audience to government support from the discover, express and pursue their passion for science Department of Arts, Heritage through a changing programme of exhibitions, events and and Gaeltacht and Science experiences, all vividly brought together at the dynamic Foundation Ireland. intersection where science and art collide. SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01:01:10—31:12:10 SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01.01.11—31.12.11 03: THE NUMBERS — LOCAL 06 /07 EVENTS & WORKSHOP ATTENDEES 2011: SCHOOL/STUDENT TOTAL VISITORS TOUR GROUPS 2011: 2011:438 18,524 2010: 173 2010: 11,314 242,189 2009: 12,420 TOTAL INCOME (€) 2010: 203,619 2008: 1,060 2011: 2009: 245,433 2008: 120,000 EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 2,192,146 2011: 2010: 1,807,064 2009: 1,958,925 2008: 1,168,257 TOTAL EXPENDITURE (€) MAJOR EXHIBITIONS 2011: DEVELOPED BY 116 SCIENCE GALLERY 2010: 146 2011: 2009: 214 2008: 163 2,139,914 2010: 1,802,806 2009: 1,910,648 5 2008: 1,048,282 2010: 4 2009: 5 2008: 4 SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01.01.11 — 31.12.11 03: THE NUMBERS — NATIONAL 08/09 PRINT MEDIA ARTICLES NUMBER OF 2011: BROADCASTS 2011: Jim Carroll, 2 Irish Times: MEDIA COVERAGE (CM ) Science Gallery. The coolest nerds in the herd. 2011: 4th September 2011. 398 98 2010: 655 2010: 29 2009: 493 2009: 43 2008: 328 2008: 30 PRINT MEDIA VALUE* (€) 166,318 2011: 2010: 290,430 2009: 208,958 2008: 143,060 TOTAL MEDIA VALUE (€) 5,616,897 2011: 2010: 6,757,719 2009: 5,608,833 2008: 4,465,740 BROADCAST MEDIA VALUE (€) 6,441,894 2011: 2010: 7,714,683 2009: 6,533,493 BROADCAST MINUTES 824,997 2011: 2010: 956,964 2009: 924,660 872 2010: 221 2009: 276 *ADverTising VALUE EQUivalenT (AVE) MULTiplieD by Three SCIENCE GALLERY RE:VIEW 01.01.11 — 31.12.11 03: THE NUMBERS — INTERNATIONAL 10/11 NEW SCIENCE GALLERY LOCATIONS PLANNED Sean O HEigeartaigh posted