The CityWorks exhibition opened its doors on May 3 at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. It is the largest exhibition in the museum in more than a decade.
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THE New York Science Temple In Crown opened its largest interactive exhibition in more than a decade on Saturday May 3. Exhibition explores the often invisible internal functioning of the urban environment built.
City work is housed in a gallery of 6,000 square feet, and the exhibition has been created by a team of developers, researchers and NDCSI exhibition educators in the past five years. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore complex systems and engineering that allow cities to function, including the way they break, evolve and persist.
“More than 80% of Americans live in cities,” said the president and chief executive officer of Nysci, Lisa J. Guggenheim. “Cities are the heart and pulse of our country, and countries around the world, and understanding how they work is of crucial importance for the way they work in the future. They rely on engineering systems and complex decisions in their beauty. ”
CityWorks is developing NYSCI’s commitment to promote science, technology and engineering learning among the next generation of learners and creative thinkers. NYSCI – thanks to partnerships with schools, universities and community partners – allows future innovators, scientists and managers of tomorrow. The new exhibition will give all visitors the tools they need to be urban and urban.
“Cityworks will invite visitors, young and old, to explore this world, taking them deep into the built environment and challenging them to engage with the materials and ideas that make our cities prosper,” said Guggenheim.
CityWorks focuses on five different aspects of urban infrastructure: transport, water and wastewater, sanitation, construction, urban development and integrated systems. Each section of the exhibition includes an explanation of how each system has traditionally worked and evolved over time and what potential future challenges may be confronted as cities continue to adapt.
“Municipal infrastructure. When it works as it is supposed to do, we do not notice it. We only notice when something breaks or that something is late or that something is too congested or causing a problem,” said Katie McMillan Culp, director of learning NYSCI. “One of the things we wanted to do with this exhibition was to make the systems that support the city every day more visible and operate the city.”
Because residents and workers are the most powerful levers in the city to lead the change and build a lasting and more habitable future, CityWorks focuses on workers who design, build and maintain cities, engineers and scientists with sandhogs, sanitation and parks workers. Imaging, content and future programming will highlight the roles of people as guards of a city systems, which require maintenance and repair. The recent history of Nysci is itself part of the story. Closed by the Pandemic from March 2020 to July 2021, the museum was then closed in September 2021 after Hurricane Ida struck the Queens, sending more than a million gallons of water drains in the Museum of Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
CityWorks is the first new NYSCI large -scale exhibition since the institution reopened in October 2022.
“What our institution can do is give everyone a shared basis of understanding the functioning of the city today and why and how to start thinking and developing skills to examine the compromises involved in long -term town planning,” said McMillan Culp.
CityWorks is a tactile experience, allowing customers to simulate the driving of a bus, to observe the city from the point of view of a pigeon, to load a garbage truck, to build a skyscraper, to design a park and even to see what is under a coverage of man in the city.
“Cities growing and evolving require qualified talents that can take up the challenges of today and adapt to the future,” said Guggenheim. “In New York and across the country, officials and skilled workers are the backbone that allow cities to work, move and prosper. City Works aims to display the critical importance of the development of skilled trades and skills, because all cities continue to move from one generation to another. ”
The New York Hall of Science is located at 47-01 111th St. in Corona, only four houses in the south of the 7 Flushing Meadows Corona Park train.