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Summative Evaluation of the Mission Future exhibition (2024)

Summative evaluation report for the Mission Future: Arizona 2045 exhibition focused on public impacts.

DESCRIPTION

Summative evaluation report for the Mission Future: Arizona 2045 exhibition.

Mission Future: Arizona 2045 is a 2,500 square foot interactive exhibition developed by Arizona State University (ASU) in collaboration with Arizona Science Center, NASA, and numerous additional local and national partners. Mission Future integrates authentic Earth and space science, imaginative storytelling, an immersive environment, and hands-on activities to explore what Arizona might be like in the year 2045. Told through the perspective of five diverse characters from the future, the exhibition explores some of the ways climate change will affect life on our home planet, as well as some of the opportunities future humans will have to study, live, and work off Earth. Prompted by an inquisitive AI character, visitors reflected on and shared their own ideas, values, and priorities as they progressed through the exhibition, growing their understanding of how they can participate in Earth and space science and contribute to a collective vision for the future. The exhibition opened in February, 2023 for long-term display at the Arizona Science Center.

Authors: 
Allison Anderson, Sonya Harvey-Justiniano and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann

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  • SEISE Project Mission Futures Exhibition Summative Evaluation Final Report revised February 2024 Report Cover Page with family using an exhibit
  • Mission Future Arizona 2045 logo
  • Family interacting together with Mission Future exhibition
  • Mission Future exhibition visitor hands in topography projection sand table
  • Young Mission Future exhibition visitor interacting with air tube
  • Mission Future exhibition visitors interacting with exhibit
  • SEISE Project Mission Futures Exhibition Summative Evaluation Final Report revised February 2024 Report Cover Page with family using an exhibit
  • Mission Future Arizona 2045 logo
  • Family interacting together with Mission Future exhibition
  • Mission Future exhibition visitor hands in topography projection sand table
  • Young Mission Future exhibition visitor interacting with air tube
  • Mission Future exhibition visitors interacting with exhibit

DESCRIPTION

Summative evaluation report for the Mission Future: Arizona 2045 exhibition.

Mission Future: Arizona 2045 is a 2,500 square foot interactive exhibition developed by Arizona State University (ASU) in collaboration with Arizona Science Center, NASA, and numerous additional local and national partners. Mission Future integrates authentic Earth and space science, imaginative storytelling, an immersive environment, and hands-on activities to explore what Arizona might be like in the year 2045. Told through the perspective of five diverse characters from the future, the exhibition explores some of the ways climate change will affect life on our home planet, as well as some of the opportunities future humans will have to study, live, and work off Earth. Prompted by an inquisitive AI character, visitors reflected on and shared their own ideas, values, and priorities as they progressed through the exhibition, growing their understanding of how they can participate in Earth and space science and contribute to a collective vision for the future. The exhibition opened in February, 2023 for long-term display at the Arizona Science Center.

Authors: 
Allison Anderson, Sonya Harvey-Justiniano and Elizabeth Kunz Kollmann

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Credits

YEAR CREATED
2024
OWNING INSTITUTION

Exhibition: Arizona State University
Summative Evaluation Report:Museum of Science, Boston

 

FUNDING

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC67A and 80NSSC18M0061. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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