Design your own textiles using bacteria, let it grow, and see your creation!

Join us at ASCUS Lab for a hands-on Bio-Art taster session, where science and creativity collide!

We are excited to join the Tweed River Culture for a clean up with a hint of science! We will be bringing some of our smartphone microscopes and other equipment for participants of the clean up to understand a little more about the health of the river.

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Join us for an artist talk and hands-on workshop where you will delve into the intricate microscopic structures of plants and uncover their remarkable ability to store heavy metals.

Artist Dawn Felicia Knox will discuss her exhibition, Post-industrial Ecologies, grown from a decade of research moving through geology, industrial archaeology and ecology across one plot of land.

Emma Hislop will give an illustrated presentation on her work that comprises the exhibiton Mythic Instruments.

James Stephen Wright will discuss his work We Pretended It Wasn't Green, a generative animation showcasing a frog and enchanting mushrooms intricately woven into a constantly changing narrative influenced by real-time earth data from satellites spinning above us.

Investigate the intricate microscopic worlds found just below the ground in the rhizomes of ferns. Learn to use various microscopes and polychromatic stains to identify different cellular structures. Join artist Dawn Felicia Knox in her intercellular search to learn how plants navigate the pollution humans have left in the soil.

Experience the intricacy, beauty and complexity of the world around us through microscopy at the ASCUS Lab. This jam-packed 4 hour microscope course is designed to enable participants to have a better understanding of microscopy techniques.

Join us to learn from, and about, the soil that sustains our ecosystems through art, poetry, chromatography and microscopy!