Stories, projects and protagonists depicted as constellations illuminate the interactive exhibition of the National Research Council ‘Science becomes one hundred’: inaugurated in Rome in the organisation’s headquarters, it will be accessible in person until 22 December 2023, but can also be visited online thanks to a web app, a ‘virtual twin’ entirely designed by Cnr researchers. The exhibition, created on the occasion of the CNR Centenary celebrations, aims to convey the importance of scientific research for the progress of humanity, through some key words such as sustainability, biodiversity, ecological and digital transition.
“The exhibition recounts the challenges carried out by the National Research Council in its hundred years of history and has the aim of opening a vision of the future”, underlined the president of the Cnr, Maria Chiara Carrozza: “Multimedia immersion offers a tangible and usable perspective of scientific concepts and was designed – he specified – to be accessible to everyone”.
The exhibition consists of a single spectacular installation, made up of three screens positioned in a semicircle so as to envelop the visitor and take him into his own world. Through a central rotating interactive table, a metaphorical astrolabe, you can ‘navigate’ among the narratives dedicated to the projects and history of the Cnr, depicted on the screens as constellations: each one allows access to the ‘stars’, short videos that allow you to delve deeper the various topics.
“In a world characterized by an increasingly rapid and superficial use of knowledge, the CNR initiative presents itself as a useful example of valorisation of contents”, observed the president of the Cotec foundation Luigi Nicolais, who spoke at the inauguration. “One of the most important characteristics of the Cnr is its proximity to the universities: the Cnr must continue to work with the universities, because there are young people there, the future”.
The installation, developed by Cnr researchers both in terms of the software and the architectural structure, was designed to be usable by the largest possible number of people: the videos are in Italian, English and sign language, and subtitles are also available.
“We feel like this exhibition is a bit like ours too, we are bound by the awareness that our work only makes sense if shared and told, only if it can involve non-experts”, said Antonella Polimeni, rector of the Sapienza University of Rome. “We are here to celebrate 100 years of the Cnr, and Rai will also celebrate its centenary in 2024”, concluded Rai president Marinella Soldi. “Cnr and Rai are linked by a natural collaborative relationship – she added – because there are many parallels between us: history, mission, and the imperative to project ourselves into the future”.
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