Engagement With Purpose

NCSE debuted our first Experience Wall at NCSE 2020. The Experience Wall provided a physical space for attendees to share real-time feedback, thoughts, and reactions to conference proceedings. Located just outside the main plenary room, attendees were encouraged to respond to target prompts about their conference experience:

• Share a must hear idea from a breakout you attended. 
• How might science help solve today's biggest challenges?
• What might the NCSE community do together that we couldn't do separately?
• If you had five minutes with a political leader, what is one thing you would ask them to address? Why? Why now?

Participants responded to these questions on sticky notes and then Karina Branson of ConverSketch translated the words into images. The Experience Wall also provided a place for attendees to come together to discuss with each other and react to the major themes represented on the Experience Wall. See more of Karina's work from NCSE 2020.

The Denver Museum of Science and Nature’s Institute for Science and Policy hosted a “pop up” exhibit, Uncommon Dialogue. Through engagement and recorded interviews, conference attendees had an opportunity to discuss the spectrum of climate idealism to climate pragmatism, identifying where they fall along that spectrum. 

Arizona State University set up a mobile version of the Decision Theater, an approach that organizes researchers, policymakers, and the business community to better understand and explore solutions to complex issues using data analytics and high-performance computing to drive software-integrated models. 

NASA displayed the “Hyperwall,” a multi-screen data visualization theater that highlights awe-inspiring visuals created by NASA scientists. 

The “Earth as Art” exhibit from the U.S. Geological Survey showcased satellite images of Earth landscapes in creative combinations of visible and infrared light.