It’s taught me that any sound can make music, and how much science and music is related.
Student – Manchester
I have personally become interested in how apps and music programmes can be used to inspire music making rather than be just a tool to record compositions.
Teacher – Manchester
I will use the apps as much as possible with classes as a new medium to explore composition structures in a new way.
Teacher – Manchester
Fantastic experience for students. It helped them to gain a wider knowledge of performance, composition and production. Great to have so many professionals delivering enthusiastic and relevant learning experiences
Teacher – Manchester
NYPL just completed the first series of Biophilia programs at locations in the Bronx and Harlem, with outstanding results. Over 20 teens excitedly delved into the Biophilia app to explore music, nature and technology in hands-on after-school programs. Week after week, the teens used iPads to create their own songs and explore the inner workings of the Biophilia universe, while weekly science experiments allowed them to transfer skills and knowledge between the digital and physical worlds.
Chris Shoemaker – The New York Public Library
One way you feel free, freedom because you can express yourself as you want.
Student – Buenos Aires
What I liked is that it pushed you to be creative and took away limitations.
Student – Buenos Aires
The program integrates science, music and technology in which children experience through doing, giving creativity wings and generating great enthusiasm and curiosity.
Teacher – Buenos Aires
The teachers were as excited as the kids. Not only because of this new experience but also of the bigger concept. It's revolutionary practice opens the mind to think about education differently.
Teacher – Buenos Aires
The revolutionary concept of Biophilia Educational Program is not allowing any preconceptions to teaching. We ourselves were discovering different things and new ways in a teaching manner we had never done before. Biophilia therefore also generated a great change in us as teachers.
Teacher – Buenos Aires
The project created by singer Björk let's kids experience and learn through music, science and new technologies. This year Buenos Aires City and students from various public schools lived a unique experience.
Buenos Aires City government
NYPL just completed the first series of Biophilia programs at locations in the Bronx and Harlem, with outstanding results. Over 20 teens excitedly delved into the Biophilia app to explore music, nature and technology in hands-on after-school programs. Week after week, the teens used iPads to create their own songs and explore the inner workings of the Biophilia universe, while weekly science experiments allowed them to transfer skills and knowledge between the digital and physical worlds.
Chris Shoemaker – The New York Public Library
For the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology the Biophilia project represented a new and very creative approach in working with a unique combination of science and musical educational for children. It combined our fields, reached out to new groups of children and gave the museum good media attention. The images and TV news clips of the very exited children working with the iPads and visiting the main stage at Norways biggest rock festival proved the project a great success.
Dag Andreassen – Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology
Everyone at NYSCI is proud of the great collaboration with Bjork and her team to make the Biophilia Education Series a huge success. Together, we gave 60 middle schoolers from Queens and Manhattan an opportunity to learn science, nurture their musical creativity, and get a behind the scenes look at tesla coils, pendulum harps and other instruments they've never seen before. An experience the kids won't forget anytime soon!
Dan Wempa – New York Hall of Science
The educational part of Biophilia is a spectacular and groundbreaking project. Inspiring teachers to work in a interdisciplinary manner with mixed age groups and using creativity as a learning tool works remarkably well. This kind of fusion in teaching can play a part in shaping curriculums in the future.
