INSTALLATION

Ex Nihilio Escape Room

Ran Peleg, Claudia Sodini, & Abrar Burk

Curated by Jaya Ramchandani

Time: 11:00 – 20:00

Venue: SUKERKAR HOUSE, PANJIM

 

Creatio ex nihilio, which means creation out of nothing, is a mobile scientific escape room: a game where participants are locked into a room and have an hour to escape it by solving several puzzles.

In Ran and Claudia’s escape room, groups of participants were invited to begin by carefully examining a box to discover a clue. This clue led to another clue, and so on, until what seemed to be an empty space revealed hidden ‘energies’—light, sound and wave— which though invisible, are always present, and proved to be the key to solving the clues.

The idea behind this game was to inspire people to investigate the space around them using everyday technologies.

SUPPORTED BY:

Ran Peleg

Ran is a multidisciplinary educator who links between science and arts for the sake of education. He trained as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Cambridge. However, he soon left the engineering world and joined a dance company, after which, he trained  in other performing arts. He uses his multidisciplinary background to form creative and motivating learning environments for students. Some of his projects include: producing educational plays on science and studying the learning outcomes of students watching these in schools and museums, teaching science through miming stories, designing the curriculum of an interdisciplinary STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts) programme, and building a mobile, educational escape room for upper-secondary chemistry students. and  He did his PhD in Science Education from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the Mandel Scholars in Education program for distinguished PhD students in the field of education.

Claudia Sodini

Claudia is a theatre, circus and science teacher.  She has a degree in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Information Technology from the University of Pisa.  In 2012, she decided to become a circus teacher and, thanks to the Second University Course in Motor Abilities in Circus Arts at the University of Rome, discovered the possibility of amalgamating Art and Science. Since then, all her theatre, circus and science courses for children have an interdisciplinary aspect. She gives  workshops on mathematics, theatre, circus to children of all levels, both in Italy and abroad.  She has collaborated with national and international science communicators such as Agnese De Rito (Maths and Games), Cesco Reale (Math games Festival), Lorenzo Schmidt (Psiquadro), Giovanni Filocamo (Matefitness), Andrea Vico (ToScience). She has also conducted lectures and workshops on “The Mathematics of Juggling” (at the international Math festival “Tutto è numero”).  In 2011, she founded the production house K-Production.

Abrar Burk

Abrar Burk is a human-centered interaction designer by day, and a tinkerer and creative coder by night. His interests range from design research to service & systems design, social innovation and more. Simply put, systematically identifying, articulating and addressing problems of varying scales is what he likes to do. With a prior background in visual communication, he can also be finicky about typography and all that comes with it.

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