12–17 June 2012

Litmus Paper at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2012

In collaboration with the British Library


Until 2010 The Times Cheltenham Science Festival ran a daily paper called Litmus Paper for the duration of the festival, featuring interviews with speakers, news from the festival site and write-ups of the previous day’s … Read more

11 April 2012

Algorithmic thinking with Processing

workshop with Phillip Kent & Brock Craft


Syllabus overview
This workshop is about algorithmic thinking – how to think in ways that draw on mathematical concepts to create computational procedures that can be expressed as computer programs. And then run to get … Read more

20 March 2012

Science and design: parallel processes?

Live debate between scientists and designers


With support from National Centre for Research Methods
Event blog by DesignScience Project Manager Lizzie Crouch

Speakers:
Geraint Rees
Stephen Curry
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Joel Gethin Lewis

Chair
Leonora Oppenheim

Geraint Rees
Professor Geraint Rees … Read more

12 Dec 2011

Linnean Society Christmas Lecture by Anne Odling-Smee

How can design help communicate science?


The 2011 Linnean Society Christmas lecture provided DesignScience with the second opportunity to present its ideas. This time a predominantly science and especially biology-related audience was addressed by Anne Odling-Smee.

The equally impassioned response reinforced our theory … Read more

28 Nov 2011

DesignScience launch event

Live debate between Imperial College Science Communication graduates and Central Saint Martins MA Communication Design students


DesignScience’s inaugural panel discussion in London’s Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons saw a group of scientists and designers present their thoughts on:
1. How science is communicated to the wide variety of … Read more

October 2011

Tangram

Live experiment design


DesignScience’s first mini-workshop was held at the studio in Hatton Garden in preparation for our launch debate in November 2011. Science Communicators from Imperial College collaborated with MA Commmunication Design students from Central Saint Martins … Read more