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Imagine that a tiny house becomes your classroom. How would you learn differently if your lecture was relocated into a mobile shepherd's hut? Discover the concrete utopia of a civic educational sanctuary. In the academic world of busy 'think tanks', take a break around the wood burner of this decelerated 'dream tank'! Final of three Festival Welcome Hut days: Experiential seminar. We invite you to an experience of the Welcome Hut in the Moray House Quad where the tiny house is permanently based.
External attendees can book via Eventbrite here.
We are 2 young international artists studying Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art, collaborating in a show followed by a workshop.
The exhibition is focused on the experimental side of creating an artwork based on a traditional approach.
Explore what we know about why bacteria and viruses are difficult to kill, otherwise known as Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR). Through discussion and exploration of these microbes, discover resistance for yourself and how it relates to our world today. Led by medical anthropologist Iona Walker of the BEYOND RESISTANCE Network, architect Nikoletta Karastathi and clinician and researcher Dr Tandogdu.
*Please note, this workshop is run over two dates. Please ensure you can attend both times/dates before booking a place on this workshop, and please book in for both dates.*
External attendees can book via Eventbrite here.
What does the delicate wing of a bee look like up close? Or the structure of a fungus? Join biologists to use different types of microscope to look closer at samples from biological research and nature. Then, express your scientific observations in a different way: create a collage in a giant petri-dish or a marbled art-work of your favourite sample or close up detail.
*Please note that this event takes place over two days. You should book in for both dates.*
Troubled by 'fake news'? Interested in improving research skills for work or school? Do you want to hold the powerful accountable?
An interdisciplinary workshop exploring the relationship of the senses and the environment to the creative process. We will meet in a specific sensory environment, a coffee house, to help stimulate the creation of literature.
Drawing on the history of writing and café culture, participants will be encouraged to think about how we use these spaces in the 21st century: as social spaces, or as spaces to be ‘alone together’. How do our conceptions of these spaces contribute to our creative writing?
Do you find it difficult to get started when confronted with a room full of strangers? Come and join a networking event that teaches you how to network!
Learn and practically apply the basics of how to network in person and grow your networks for future opportunities with a mix of online coursework to plan how you can engage with this real face-to-face networking event to be held here at the University of Edinburgh. Event open to staff, students, and the public. Interaction planning will be enhanced by using the Confbuzz app, so using a smartphone will be essential.
Imagine that a tiny house becomes your classroom. How would you learn differently if your lecture was relocated into a mobile shepherd's hut? Discover the concrete utopia of a civic educational sanctuary. In the academic world of busy 'think tanks', take a break around the wood burner of this decelerated 'dream tank'!
Second of three Festival Welcome Hut days: Participatory research day. Sign up to discover the tiny house as an unprecedented element in arts-based methodologies. Observe the public sphere through the lens of this mobile site of hospitality and welcome.
External attendees can book via Eventbrite here.
The Diversithon is a Wikipedia editing event in a social and supportive setting to celebrate diversity in science and Scottish history for the Festival of Creative Learning and LGBT+ History Month 2019.
Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world and is an important first stop when looking up science and history topics. But it lacks diversity both in its editorship and its articles.