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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. The interest is there.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation.

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