Exhibitions, shows, workshops and seminars: INGV is back to animate the Science Festival to tell scientific research in a creative and engaging way
The new edition of the Science Festival, the appointment that every year brings together researchers, enthusiasts, schools and families in one of the major science dissemination events at an international level. The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) will participate in the 2019 edition with various activities, including an exhibition, a show, a laboratory and a Lectio Magistralis.
“Earthquakes: beware of the elements. Details that save lives” is the title of the exhibition organized by the Institute in collaboration with the Eucentre Foundation and researchers from the University of Genoa. Objective of the exhibition, to take stock of what makes our homes vulnerable. The role of the land will be discovered and, with the aid of a vibrating table, the different responses of the buildings will be simulated. It will be seen that, to make our homes safer, sometimes small tricks regarding furnishings and furnishings are sufficient. INGV researchers will answer the most frequently asked questions about earthquakes, guiding the public to discover little-known details about their effects with an interactive journey enriched by laboratory experiences that will aim to amaze as well as entertain.
Saturday 2 November, at the Teatro della Tosse, the history of the Earth will become a musical show “Once upon a time there was planet Earth. Brief history of almost everything: from its genesis to today's world”. Born thanks to the collaboration between INGV and the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the National Research Council (IREA-CNR), the show will retrace, through scientific videos and musical pieces played and sung live, the events that shaped the our planet from its birth until the appearance of man.
“Knowing Radon: an unwanted guest in our homes. Methods of measurement and remediation” instead it will be the laboratory managed by INGV researchers to lead visitors to the discovery of radon, a radioactive element of natural origin contained in many rocks and in some building materials. The aim of the activity is to present the latest technologies developed for the detection and monitoring of this gas in buildings and to illustrate the thematic maps created in some study areas.
Massimo Pompilio, senior researcher at INGV, will finally hold a Lectio Magistralis in the afternoon of November 3 entitled “Fire, Air, Water, Earth. How knowledge of volcanoes evolves: Etna and Stromboli". The lesson will deal with the two Sicilian volcanoes, among the most active in the world, to tell the spectacular and violent activity that over the centuries has attracted populations and travelers who moved along the routes of the Mediterranean and to retrace their eruptive history and the most recent.
Rome, October 22 2019
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