Darwin Now
Above: One of the landscapes provided for the 'Design your Own Animal' activity
The British Council invited us to design a series of activities to support their international Darwin Now exhibition.
Darwin Now is a global initiative, run in centres across the world throughout 2009, to celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin and the impact his ideas about evolution continue to have on today’s world. It was designed to complement UK celebrations of the bicentenary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his major work 'On the Origin of the Species by Natural Selection'.
We designed quizzes and a series of
activities to accompany the exhibition. The quizzes were targeted at
5-11 year olds and 12-16 year olds respectively, and were designed to
encourage visitors to interrogate the exhibition. The supporting
activities were designed to engage visitors aged 5-14 with principles
such as the evolutionary advantages of different characteristics and the
impact of a creature's environment on natural selection and survival.
Activities included: Survival of the Fittest Game; Design your own
Animal; Design your own Ecosystem and Colourful Butterflies.