European Inventor’s week 2022
7th-13th November
Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, as a carrier of culture responsibly planning on disseminating scientific knowledge to the general public, participates in the events for the “European Inventors’ Week”, an initiative which is under the central supervision of the European Union.
Green Growth and inventiveness: Towards an Ecological Technology
The aim of the event is to show how the origins of technologies in Ancient Greece went hand in hand with ecology and to inspire critical reflections on a truly sustainable future of growth. Kotsanas Museum starts by showcasing how simple natural elements were transformed into highly creative technology patents by the ancient Greek engineers. Tracing the development of such eco-friendly origins of inventions we will understand how digitalism has provoked a radical change of natural resources management. For an ecologically oriented technology to be supported political agendas of science policy are needed. European history of science shows the way.
Date and time: November 7th, 16:00
Duration: 60 minutes
Age: teenagers and adults
Cost: The thematic experience is free. Visitors pay only the general admission ticket for the exhibition “Ancient Greece – the origins of Technologies” 5 euros
The power of decision: Inventiveness facing social structure
The aim of the event is to elucidate how policy making procedures have been designed in terms of inventors’, states, and stakeholders’ powerful intersection. Understanding how this kind of intersection has been historically developed will be our chance to reflect critically upon the fact that innovation both maintains and changes the economic and political order of society. Kotsanas Museum starts by interpreting the cultural background of technology inventions in Ancient Greece and shows how the social hierarchy of priorities paves the way for science policy until now. Democracy, accessibility, sponsorship, and entrepreneurship reveal where the power of decision lies on.
Date and time: November 9th, 16:00
Duration: 60 minutes
Age: teenagers and adults
Cost: The thematic experience is free. Visitors pay only the general admission ticket for the exhibition “Ancient Greece – the origins of Technologies” 5 euros
Innovation and black-boxing technologies: the democracy of science
The aim of the event is to trace the history of black-boxing technologies and to offer a critical reflection on how invention’s content implicitly shapes society. Kotsanas Museum starts with the origins of IT and reveals the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism, the first computer in history of technology. How crucial is for the public to know what technology hides within the inventions? The event offers both a discursive interpretation of the computer and a scientific workshop during which the visitors will have the chance to construct piece by piece the functional core of the mechanism.
Date and time: November 12th, 12:30
Duration: 60 minutes
Age: teenagers and adults
Cost: The thematic experience is free. Visitors pay only the general admission ticket for the exhibition “Ancient Greece – the origins of Technologies” 5 euros