Scientists on the street – fruits of Czech science
On Thursday, October 21, 2010, an exhibition titled SCIENTISTS ON THE STREET – FRUITS OF CZECH SCIENCE was inaugurated on Na Příkopech street in Prague, with the architectural framework designed by A1Architects. The exhibition prepared by Forum Science Lives! is an ideological culmination of more than a year of activity of this civic association, whose goal is to promote science, but at the same time to critically highlight the very problematic trend of the upcoming financing of Czech science.
The significance of science for society is symbolically expressed in the exhibition through unconventional portraits of scientific authorities as well as emerging scientists and female scientists, who hold fruits and vegetables in their hands. Large-format photographs are installed in a transparent pavilion right at Můstek. This way, science is directly brought into the public space, but it is also meant to suggest that scientists had to personally take to the streets last year to effectively attract the media's and the wider public's interest to the negative situation in science funding. And since it is still unclear what scenario the government will resort to in the future, there remains a real threat that scientists could indeed end up on the street or directly on the pavement.
The exhibition pavilion of the SCIENTISTS ON THE STREET – FRUITS OF CZECH SCIENCE project was designed by Lenka Křemenová and David Maštálka from the A1Architects studio. The simple structure made of scaffolding tubes has become an ideal platform for the unconventional presentation of science. At the same time, the trapezoidal shape of the object sensitively responds to the character of the pedestrian zone, thus creating a dynamically composed tunnel as a distinctive information carrier.
The open-air exhibition at Můstek is accessible 24 hours a day until November 3, 2010.
The significance of science for society is symbolically expressed in the exhibition through unconventional portraits of scientific authorities as well as emerging scientists and female scientists, who hold fruits and vegetables in their hands. Large-format photographs are installed in a transparent pavilion right at Můstek. This way, science is directly brought into the public space, but it is also meant to suggest that scientists had to personally take to the streets last year to effectively attract the media's and the wider public's interest to the negative situation in science funding. And since it is still unclear what scenario the government will resort to in the future, there remains a real threat that scientists could indeed end up on the street or directly on the pavement.
The exhibition pavilion of the SCIENTISTS ON THE STREET – FRUITS OF CZECH SCIENCE project was designed by Lenka Křemenová and David Maštálka from the A1Architects studio. The simple structure made of scaffolding tubes has become an ideal platform for the unconventional presentation of science. At the same time, the trapezoidal shape of the object sensitively responds to the character of the pedestrian zone, thus creating a dynamically composed tunnel as a distinctive information carrier.
The open-air exhibition at Můstek is accessible 24 hours a day until November 3, 2010.
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