Standard formats for STEAM projects by Ultra-Lab

Protocols Standardization

Ultra-Lab is part of the advisory team of a project, coordinated by Laboratory of the Ars Electronica Center in the city of Linz, which aims to disseminate creative technologies through a STEAM project. It has set the objective to create a multilingual platform that allows the monitoring of projects together with teachers online. This platform will be a great asset to disseminate the results of TheDexterLab in a larger ecosystem of resources.

The projects and contents will be shared with standard formats so that they are reusable but not tied to a single card, programming or simulation system, prioritizing the STEAM concept that shapes the content. Standardization will allow sharing between projects in the future. This is especially valid for the results of TheDexterLab project, which may facilitate and enhance their use by a larger audience, even outside project countries. The solution avoids the situation of starting building already existing scenarios from scratch.

Discover more about the Ars Electronica Center

The new Ars Electronica Center invites the visitors to exciting and inspiring excursions into the future fields of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, robotics and autonomous mobility, as well as genetic engineering and biotechnology. Within the Museum of the Future, the CitizenLab examines the question of what it means to participate as a citizen in our societal context and become active in designing a smart and sustainable way of life. The SecondBodyLab offers insights into the world of prosthetics, a field that combines craftsmanship, technology, and science, and has a history dating from ancient Egypt to the cutting-edge prosthetics of today. It also explores technological body extensions such as brain-computer interfaces.

The MaterialLab is a space for innovative experimentation with all kinds of materials. Visitors can delve into the world of material research and experiment with different production methods. In the BioLab, the focus is on the human organism and the processes of life taking place on the cellular and molecular levels. Current scientific methods allow us not only to observe biological processes and make them visible but also to intervene in them in many ways. Eventually, the Ars Electronica Kids’ Research Laboratory offers a versatile playing field that gives children time and space to play and discover our world, the digital as well as the analogue, the natural as well as the artificial world.

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