Dr Amber Griffiths - Making FoAM: developing creative and confident relationships with science and technology

Dr Amber Griffiths will be giving a seminar with the title ''Making FoAM: developing creative and confident relationships with science and technology'.

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Speaker: Dr Amber Griffiths

FoAM is a cultural laboratory working out of a converted warehouse in Falmouth, Cornwall. It is a not-for-profit organisation who’s aims are to “enable people to develop creative and confident relationships with science and technology”. This has involved a multitude of projects, from making games to engage the public in scientific research, to teaching programming to school children and teenagers and even live coding musical performances - creating music by text(ure). The work at FoAM captures the imagination, with coverage from the BBC, The Guardian and the Economist -to name but a few- and in 2014 won the Soil Association’s Innovation Award.  Amber’s talk promises to be something truly out of the ordinary, discussing emerging and engaging ways to develop creative and, most importantly, mutually benefiting relationships between science, technology and the wider public.