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- Duwig, Christophe
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Exhibition : Towards the energy of the future – the invisible revolution behind the electrical socket
- 2023
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- Energy Crisis! Electricity Price drama! The threat of global energy poverty! Media are generous with spectacular titles. Yes, energy is important, and yes, nearly all societal challenges are connected to how we convert, distribute and use energy. Therefore, the KTH Energy Platform and KTH Library presented an exhibition with the theme Towards the energy of the future – the invisible revolution behind the electrical socket.The exhibition displayed showcase illustrations from the book made by Lotta Waesterberg Tomasson, as well as books related to energy and electricity from the KTH Library's collections. In parallell with the exhibition, a series of live popular science lunch seminars with presentations of selected chapters of the book took place. As part of the exhibition, students from KTH's Electrical Engineering program also showcased exciting projects that connect to the anthology’s contents, made with materials and equipment from the student-driven ELAB and “Studentverkstan”. Visitors were also invited to share their reflections and ideas on energy.
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- Essén, Malin, et al.
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Digital literacy : – a necessity in digital learning spaces
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background and purposeWe assume that, in a possible “post-Covid-19”-scenario, the distance-based teaching at KTH will still be a vital influence onKTH-students' learning experiences and future working lives. This assumption is corroborated by the newly implementedKTH policy on digitalisation, which indicates a higher degree of digital learning activities [1]. By digital literacy we mean the general ability to work productively with digital and technical tools, in particular in blended ordistance-based learning activities. We here use the framework of JISC [2] to define six different elements of digitalcapabilities, whose content can be summarized as: Functional skills, critical use, creative production, participation,development, and self-actualizing. Viewing this framework, we conclude that digital literacy ispart of the general academic skills that students of today need to possess. And as digital literacy is a general academic skill, it is natural to view the library as a promoter of digital literacy. This is in linewith the library already being a learning space for different media literacies [3]. A recent example of this is the “datacarpentry”-activities produced by the KTH Library with collaborators [4]. Hence, our purpose is to investigate how the KTH Library can be both a virtual arena and a physical learning space for digitalliteracy.Finished work/ongoing workWe made a survey in order to see if, and how, digital literacy is strengthened by learning activities at KTH today. In thesurvey, we frame the questions according to the six JISC-elements. The survey was divided into three parts: a. A directed survey, with follow-up interviews, to KTH Program Directors as well as key administrators of KTH educationalprograms. b. A general survey to students, with emphasis on students in later years of study. c. A directed survey to PhD-candidates, who have participated in KTH Library learning activities recently. From the results of the survey in c. above, we have developed a few workshops on digital literacy, in particular on differentaspects of research data management. The ideas for them also come from needs and requests made by students and teachersin earlier contacts with the KTH Library staff and learning activities. Subjects of these workshops are reflecting the sixelements of the JISC-framework.Results/observations/lessons learnedThe preliminary results of our survey indicate that aspects of digital literacy are covered to some extent by learning activitiestoday, but that the coverage is far from complete at KTH. In our future work, we will explore additional results from thesurvey.Take-home messageWe have mapped how digital literacy is facilitated at KTH today via a survey. We have developed a series of workshopson different aspects of digital literacy for an academic environment. And through our survey and these workshops, we havegained additional insights on how a library can be a natural learning space for fostering digital academic skills. We will in ourtalk highlight some of the achievements, and also briefly discuss some of the challenges for the future.
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Exhibition: Space Waves and a Tale : Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995). Nobel Prize laureate in physics 1970.
- 2022
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Konstnärligt arbeteabstract
- The exhibition Space Waves and a Tale presented parts of Alfvén's extensive research, his community engagement and last but not least, his fictional story The tale of the great computing machine from 1966. In 1970 KTH professor Hannes Alfvén (1908 – 1995) was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries and applications in plasma physics. The exhibition Space Waves and a Tale presented parts of Alfvén's extensive research, his community engagement and his fictional story The tale of the great computing machine from 1966.Alfvén's research allow us to explore all corners of the universe – from the auroras on earth to the auroras on other planets, from solar wind to stellar wind, from plasma phenomena in the laboratory to astrophysical plasma phenomena in ours and other galaxies.The tale of the great computing machine is a satirical tale that tells the story of a future society controlled by computers and is also the source of inspiration for an opera with the same name.As part of the exhibition Space Waves and a Tale visitors were invited to share their visions of how future technology will shape our lives and societies. Two students from the KTH School of Architecture have contributed to the exhibition by designing and building a flexible and sustainable exhibition module. Students from BOOMERANG REXUS participated with objects related to aerospace research.Space Waves and a Tale was produced by the project group for KTH 200 years anniversary celebration together with KTH Library, The Opera: The Tale of the Great Computing Machine, the Division of Space and Plasma Physics and the KTH School of Architecture.In connection with the exhibithion there was a book discussion, popular science lecture and a class visit.
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