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Stations-ID: A002
Instructions:
Can you stand straight? Check yourself and the others, in what angle are you standing to the floor?
- Position the moveable wooden channel straightly. You can check if you’re right by placing a marble on it.
- The pendulum points straight down after being taken out of it’s holder.
- Using a wooden marble, give a guess as to which one of the boxes the tip of the pendulum will point at.
- Where does the marble have to start to be able to traverse the whole marble track?
Not only in Jena can you find leaning houses. A timbred house in Ulm dating from the 14th century is advertized as the most crooked hotel in the world. The Oberhafenkantine in Hamburg, the old fulling mill in Wernigenrode and the ‘leaning houses’ in Idstein and Großbottwar are also clearly out of balance.
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Stations-ID: A007
Instructions:
On this bike, you too can become a tightrope artist.
- How heavy do you think the balancing arm is? How long is it?
- Where is the centre of gravity of a normal bike?
- Where is it on the tightrope bike?
Sadly, the tightrope bike is out of service in the winter. Since the steel rope contracts in low temperatures, it is necessary to slacken it come nightly frost.
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Stations-ID: A010
Instructions:
Go inside and listen!
- Where does the sound come from?
- Which way does the sound go?
- Where does the sound go?
- What could the sound be?
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Stations-ID: A006
Instructions:
A round track – But is the chair driving on it in it’s initial position after one round?
• How many rails is the track made up of?
• In what position would you arrive after one round, if the chair could not turn?
The stainless steel construction has a different angle in every segment, which could not be calculated before the build. Therefore, a wooden model had to be built to scale to discern the correct measurements required.
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Stations-ID: A009
Instruction:
Stand on the platform and hold on to the handrail. Try to get yourself spinning with your feet. What happens if you pull yourself towards the centre?
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Stations-ID: A011
Instructions:
Take place opposite of each other and speak towards the wall.
• Can you understand your partner better when he is facing towards you while speaking or when he whispers sideways, towards the wall?
• While speaking loudly, move towards the centre of the whispershell. What do you hear? What do the others hear?
One person takes position in the centre and tries to either speak to the others or listen to their conversation.
• Standing in the middle, say a few words. How does your voice sound to you? How does it sound to the others?
• Do you have an idea as to why the dome is open at the top?
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Stations-ID: A001
Instructions:
- How many people have to stand on the shorter end of seesaw in order to lift the longer end?
- Are you able to balance the beam out?
- What do you think: How heavy is the beam?
- How many more people must stand on the short end in order to lift a person standing on the long end?
„Bürger in Bewegung“ (Moving Citizens) is the title of the planned monument to the reunification of Germany in Berlin. The
design by Stuttgart architects Milla and Partner and the Berlin-based artist Sasha Waltz comprises of a dish set up so that it
can be shifted to the side by a sufficient amount of people.
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Stations-ID: D083
Instructions:
An experiment for two. One blindfolds himself and pushes, the other sits on the cart and gives instructions. The aim is to follow the line without driving over it with the front wheels.
- Switch positions
- Who has it easier? The pusher or the helmsman?
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Stations-ID: D037
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Stations-ID: D047
Instructions:
Three mirrors are set up to form a triangle. Who enters must take care to not lose themselves in their own reflections.
- Can you look at yourself from all sides without moving?
- Raise your right hand. Which of your reflections raise their right hand, which their left?
The Earth Tower shown at Expo 2005 in Japan is thought to be the largest kaleidoscope in the world. Like a normal kaleidoscope, it is triangular – but 47 meters high.
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Stations-ID: D029
?? Work in Progress. English Translation coming soon!
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Stations-ID: D091
English instructions:
Two people sit across from each other in the carousel, tossing a ball back and forth between them.
The rest of the group sets the carousel in motion. Try tossing the ball back and forth again.
• Where does the ball fly when the carousel is turning?
• Where does the ball fly if the carousel is turning in the opposite direction?
• Which flight path would an observer see, looking at the carousel from the top?
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Stations-ID: D073
Instructions:
Attention! Please no more than two people on the platform!
Get on the platform and slowly move forwards. What do you see when you look down? What happens when you go further forward?
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Stations-ID: D079
Instructions:
Take a glove or a blue cloth.
Take hold of an aluminium bar with your thumb and index finger and move your hand slowly outward, varying pressure and speed as you go.
- Where can you generate a tone easily?
- What are the differences between the tones produced by the different bars?
- Listen along the length of the top bar, where is the sound at it’s loudest?
- Touch a bar gently with the tip of your finger, while it is ringing. What do you feel?
- What do you feel when you touch the the round top of a ringing bar?
This station was built by Dresden-based musician Jan Heinke. With the steel cellos and steel harps he has constructed, he has created a unique sound which can hardly be compared to the sound of classical instruments.
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Stations-ID: D016
?? English instruction:
Try and form as many words as possible from the letters at hand.
• You can play with or against each other.
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Stations-ID: D082
Instructions:
Multiple photo-cells block a 7-Meter-long path. You must find a way through without triggering an alarm.
Exercise scenario: For easier orientation, rubber bands have been attached next to the photo cells.
Serious scenario: After the bands have been removed, you have to rely solely on your imagination.
- Which part do you find especially difficult?
- How many attempts do you need to pass through the labyrinth without mistakes?
- After how many practice runs, do you think you can make an attempt without the rubber bands for orientation?
- Observe other visitors doing the experiment
The American psychologist Karl Lashley (18900-1958) tried to localise memory in the brain. He let rats run through mazes and removed parts of their cerebral cortex afterward. His many experiments did not deliver any clear results, so he concluded (somewhat resignedly), that memory was not possible.
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Stations-ID: D061
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Stations-ID: D015
?? English instruction:
Move your fingers over the surface of the globe slowly.
Touch the globe with the flourescent tube.
- What happens, when you touch the globe with a finger or with your whole hand? What does your hand feel like afterwards?
- Hold one end of the flourescent tube to the globe. What happens when you hold the tube around the middle?
- Place a coin on the globe and hold your finger, or a second coin, close to it. What do you see? What can you smell?
The Gas Discharge Lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) in the early 20th century.
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Stations-ID: D026
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Stations-ID: D071
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Stations-ID: D009
Instructions:
Concentrate your gaze on the striped wall and balance on one leg at the same time.
Now your partner makes the wall swing sideways.
- How long are you able to stand on one leg?
- What happens when you close your eyes?
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Stations-ID: D090
English instructions:
A dark path awaits you with many a surprising obstacle.
Take a tour with your sense of touch!
- What do you expect in the corridor?
- What do you see, hear and feel?
- What do you see in your mind’s eye while going through the Tastatour?
„Through touch we find not only other bodies but also our own, and it is this double sensation that defines the character of
touch“
Menyhért Palágyi
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Stations-ID: D058
?? English instruction:
In front of you, you find a twisted space. Where is up and down?
• Step through the door and lie in different positions. Can you fly?
• Observers can see you from the wooden stairs.
Please take off your shoes before entering.
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Stations-ID: D062
?? English instruction:
The Vortex Cannon makes beautiful smoke-rings that drift through the entire hall.
• What do you feel, when you stand right in front of the ‘Cannon’?
• Observe the smoke-rings drifting through the air. Is their shape and speed always the same?
• What happens, when a quarter of the opening of the Vortex Cannon is closed, what happens, when it is half closed?
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