Stations-ID: A005

Instruction:

With a partner, each take position in front of one of the dishes and speak into them. How must your heads be positioned in order for you to be able to understand each other well?
• Have you ever looked into a shaving mirror?
• Position your head so as to face the middle of the dish.
• Move back slowly.
• Where do you hear your partner especially well?
The dome of the old Hall of Representatives in the Capitol in Washington D.C. supposedly made secret conversations difficult. Apparently, it was constructed to make any conversation clearly audible on the other side of the room.

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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?

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.

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?

Stations-ID: D085

Instructions:

• Try standing on the wooden cross so that none of the beams touch the floor.
• Can you balance on the board in such a way that a marble can roll along the milled groove?
• Can you do it with a partner?
• Are you better at it with your eyes closed or open?

The first sense that an embryo develops in the womb, is the perception of gravity. Already between the sixth and the eighth week of pregnancy, the equilibrium organ starts to develop. The corresponding nerve tracts are regarded as “precursors” for the development of the other perceptual systems.

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Stations-ID: D092

English instructions:

A game of orientation in the dark:

Take your time and walk the dark path a few times.

• What do you think how big the room is?
• Go through the box a few times, you can also start at the back.
• How long do you think you need to get through the box?
• After every time you pass through it, try to reconstruct the layout of the black box using the little blocks.

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Stations-ID: D080

Instructions:

Two players sit across from each other, neither seeing the other players ‘building site’. Each player has a set of building blocks. Build a shape out of the blocks that your partner can’t see. Give your partner instructions for your shape, without speaking. Can your partner succeed in recreating your shape?

• First, start with three or four different shapes
• How often must you play to understand each other well?
• Which ‘words’ do your ‘language’ have?

In accord with the sentiment ‘if you can’t talk about it, you don’t belong’, language is an effective tool for social exclusion. Even scientists from every discipline are occasionally accused of explaining actually simple concepts and facts with unnecessarily complicated (mostly Greek or Latin) terms. Thus, it is hardly surprising, that the doctrine of the hidden transmission of information also has a technical term: steganography.

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Stations-ID: D078

Instructions:

Try to move the ball through the maze together. The small walls can be repositioned to create new paths.

Stations-ID: D055

?? English instruction:

Choose a Partner whom you want to see infinitely often and look at each other through the kaleidoscope.

Are all mirror images the same?

• Ask your partner to close one eye – which eye is closed now in your partner’s mirror images?

The word “kaleidoscope” comes from the Greek and is made up of the word parts καλός (kalós) “beautiful”, εἴδος (eidos) “shape” and σκοπέω (skopéο) “to see”.

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Stations-ID: D071

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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