Innovation Anthology #527:
“May the force be with you” is the iconic phrase from Star Wars. But what forces shape you?
That’s the fundamental question behind the exhibit, Star Wars Identities at the Telus World of Science.
Star Wars Identities explores the science behind who we are, and how Anakin and Luke Skywalker turned out to be so different.
Jacques-Andre Dupont is the President of X3 Productions. This is a Montreal company that created the new Star Wars exhibit for Lucas Films.
JACQUES-ANDRE DUPONT: We had learned about a scientist from a University in California that did a psychology test using the Star Wars saga. So we thought hmm that’s interesting. And we started working about creating an exhibition with about psychology.
But then we gathered a scientific committee that worked at the Montreal Science Centre and really early they told us that we had to open the subject to the sciences of identity, from genetics, biology, psychology and so on.
Visitors to the Star Wars Identities exhibition wear chip imbedded bracelets that allow them to develop their own avatar or Star Wars hero. According to Jacques-Andre Dupont, there are more than 50 million possible identities you can create.
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Program Date: 2013-01-22