02.02.14 – 27.04.14
FAIL BETTER
The goal of FAIL BETTER was to open up a public conversation about failure, particularly the instructive role of failure, as it relates to very different areas of human endeavour. Rather than simply celebrating failure, which can come at great human, environmental and economic cost, we want to open up a debate on the role of failure in stimulating creativity: in learning, in science, engineering and design.
Curators
Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh - Curator of Fail Better
Lynn Scarff - Director Science Gallery Dublin
Highlights
Exhibits
During the Hungarian Grand Prix, the carbon fibre left rear suspension of the 2003 Ferrari Formula One car failed while braking…
I don’t like heights and I don’t like climbing but despite this, I decided to climb Mount Everest in 2005…
Every year over 4 million infants in the developing world die within a month of birth…
The Mars Climate Orbiter was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11th 1998…
Would an ice pick driven through the eggshell thin bone above your eye into your brain cure your ‘maladies’, your ‘melancholy’, your ‘madness’?
When too much electric current surges through a circuit, it brings the risk of damaging expensive equipment…
Back in 2006, a group of us at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory…
Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen; the explorers who carved those first trails into the Antarctic ice…
For Beckett, failure was the ultimate goal of art.
On April 16th 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor number 4 blew up after a cooling capability test…
In 1965, George and Charlotte Blonsky, a married couple living in New York City, were granted US patent #3216423 for an “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force”…
The design process depends on new ideas, failed experiments, and incremental improvements…