October 2017 – We are delighted to receive a second funding award from the Royal Astronomical Society, specifically in support of a publication and giving presentations and workshops for the project.
Astronomers at Cardiff University this November
We held our first meetings with eight astronomers at Cardiff University on 7th November and gave presentations on our work and heard about their research. We had the following feedback: "A big thank you to Alison, Ione and Gillian for coming to visit us on Tuesday. That was one of the most interesting afternoons at work in a long time!" Paul Clark; "One of the most interesting afternoons I've spent recently", Steve Eales; and "I really enjoyed the afternoon with the artists!", Mattia Negrello.
Dundee Science Centre, Adventure Week
26th Oct 17 The Creativity and Curiosity team are in Dundee to trial their VR exhibition with community groups as part of Dundee Science Week. They are also to be delivering a talk on their Art Science project to MA students at Duncan Of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee
Out of This World, 2nd Nov 2017, Art Workshop and VR event
Imperial Fringe Event October 10th
Tuesday 10th of October is the `Space Odyssey’’ fringe event at Imperial College London, which is celebrating the end of the Cassini Mission. As part of this, Creativity and Curiosity will be showcasing our new (work in progress) virtual reality exhibition. Come and give it a try and help steer the future development of this exciting new aspect of our project.
The iScience Exhibition
Ione Parkin RWA, Gillian McFarland and Alison Lochhead will be showing a small selection of work at the iScience Exhibition at Imperial in November 2017. See Exhibitions page for details.
New Creativity & Curiosity catalogue
New Creativity & Curiosity catalogues have been printed. See Publications page for
more information.