public engagement

  What is “hacking”? A way to customize one’s surroundings by readily available means.  At a recent workshop on biohacking organized by Labitat in collaboration with Medical Museion I tried a very fine hack – a web cam customized for communicating microbiology. The hack is based on an ordinary cheap web cam. With a small screw […]

Our collaborators at the biohacker space in Copenhagen, BiologiGaragen@Labitat are hosting a networking event bringing together biohackers, sociologists of science, scientists, science communicators and science policy makers. The event promises to provide an exciting maker-space, not just for lab set-ups, but also for forging connections and encouraging debate about the ways and means of making […]

This is unfortunately a retrospective review, as I just caught the closing days of Bone at the Florence Nightingale Museum on my recent trip to London. But given the always-strange scenario of blogging about objects that most readers will likely never encounter in the flesh (or at least, in close proximity to their glass cases), I thought […]

Last Friday I visited Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement from 600 BCE to 2050. Feeling rather less than superhuman after a sweaty bike ride from Tooting, I entered the delightfully air-conditioned exhibition space and an absorbing – if at times gut-wrenching – mosaic of objects, films, and texts, providing glimpses into the […]

I’m organizing a 4 day PhD course at Medical Museion in March, as part of the Medical Science and Technology Studies Graduate Programme. The course, ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Science Communication’, is described below: Science communication always involves questions of translation and persuasion, asking how accurately technical knowledge can be communicated to non-expert audiences, and […]

Our local biohacker space in Copenhagen, BiologiGaragen @ Labitat, is hosting a workshop on the last weekend in August inviting people to get hands-on with DNA and the lab equipment you need to work with it. The flyer below gives a taste of some of the exciting activities and discussions that will be going on, […]

A pile of seed bombs gradually spreads across the floor of Science Gallery Dublin, hands shaping mud, clay, and seeds in the culmination of a project to sow plants into the gaps of top-down city planning. A helicopter drone lazily swings from the ceiling upstairs, next to a video of the footage it collected when […]

Earlier this week Louise Whiteley and I visited Labitat preparing for a project that aims to combine synthetic biology, design, democracy and the museum – easy, when you are (getting to) know the right people … “Labitat is a makerspace in CPH. We are a group of people with diverse interests in technology. We are […]

The PhD course I’m organizing as part of the Medical Science and Technology Studies programme at the University of Copenhagen, March 4th-7th 2013, is now up in the online course catalogue: Science communication always involves questions of translation and persuasion, asking how accurately technical knowledge can be communicated to non-expert audiences, and with what effects. […]

Last week, I was invited to give a speech about the future of science communication at a dinner arranged by the Center for Healthy Ageing here at the University of Copenhagen. The terms for the speech were harsh. I got a mere five minutes between the entree and the main course — and I wasn’t […]