Speaker Details

Biography:

Maarten is as project director development at Bruns responsible for content driven development and realisation of museums and science centres projects.
Where necessary, Maarten plays an active role in management and guiding concept development towards technical detailing.
He is responsible for acquisition and project management, information, communication, quality control, planning and finances.
He has an extensive knowledge of science centres, modern art, museums, information centres, exhibitions and of special techniques, constructions and materials.

Since 2012 Maarten has got the final responsibility for the realisation of the dbfmo (design build finance maintain and operate) project of the new Dutch National Army Museum with a floor surface of 20.000m2.

Maarten is also busy managing a new project for the VilVite Science Center in Bergen, Norway. It’s a development, design and build project in retail center ‘Sartor Center’ on the island Sotra Kystby. This is a new science center branche of VilVite where local issues are integrated into different science phenomena.

- Projects list - part of other projects Maarten worked on:
• Mind zone Millennium dome London, United Kingdom
• Dutch national Book foundation, Tokyo, Japan
• Space Expo, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
• Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, Germany
• Museum of Image and Sound, Hilversum, Netherlands
• Utrecht Archives Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Experimenta Heilbronn, Germany

Status: Confirmed

Papers/Presentations

Iconic Exhibits

Bruns will present in a short walk through their company that worldwide develops, engineers and realizes Museums and Science Centers.
After a showcase of different realized science related interactive exhibits, conceptual or scenographic museums, Bruns will dig deeper into one topic.

A development Bruns observed in the market is that the one on one interactivity you find in science based exhibits is more and more supported by collective interactivity.
Landmarks can attract people in a different perspective. When people collectively have to interact with an iconic exhibit they are challenged in a different matter to deal with the scientific content. The fun factor and attractiveness is from the point of view of involving more people in the matter a serious advantage.
Bruns as a developer, engineer and builder of challenging multi disciplinary content driven projects is on top of this new development.
We realized iconic exhibits for The EcOman Center, Bursa Science and Technology Center and Liaoning Science Center.
These cases will be presented with the focus on the exhibition Bruns realized for the Bursa Science and Technology Center in Turkey.

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