[DIYbio] Fwd: Open call for GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery

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Subject: Open call for GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:03:42 +0100
From: Science Gallery <info@sciencegallery.com>
Reply-To: Science Gallery <info@sciencegallery.com>
To: Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@gmail.com>



Calling all synthetic biologists, bioartists, biodesigners, amateur
biotechnologists and biohackers. Science Gallery is seeking proposals
for projects for our upcoming flagship exhibition GROW YOUR OWN...

GROW YOUR OWN... is a curated, open call exhibition tackling provocative
questions raised by synthetic biology. Curated by Paul Freemont
(Imperial College), Anthony Dunne (Royal College of Art), Cathal Garvey,
Daisy Ginsberg, and Michael John Gorman (Science Gallery), GROW YOUR
OWN... offers audiences a participative experience to explore the
possibilities and potential implications of synthetic biology, through
an exhibition, events and workshops.

Deadline for applications is midnight, Sunday May 26th, 2013. Full
details and the online submission form can be found at:
http://sciencegallery.com/growyourown

We are interested in works that offer a participative and interactive
visitor experience for a broad age range of visitors, especially those
aged 15-25. We seek projects that inform, intrigue, provoke dialogue and
engage audiences about an unfamiliar, complex and far-reaching topic,
move the public conversation about synthetic biology forward.

Tackling the sweeping discussion of synthetic biology that tends to
focus on a biotech future of personalised medicine and cells that pump
out fuel, GROW YOUR OWN... will explore the ambiguous issues raised by
'designing' biology too.

*We are interested in receiving proposals on a wide variety of topics
including:*

* Broad themes such as living versus non-living, human culture versus
nature, design versus evolution, the intentional design of nature
* Research areas in synthetic biology such as health, energy,
environment, biocomputing, materials and agriculture or new/unusual
themes that have not entered the debate yet
* Current research and challenges within synthetic biology
* The hype spectrum that swings from potential world saving utopia to
global bio catastrophe
* Different processes and approaches with synthetic biology research,
such as understanding and modeling living things and their processes
at a molecular level, modification of existing organisms such as
bacteria, the building of synthetic organisms that can carry out
specific actions, the construction of novel organisms from the bottom up
* The potential impact of synthetic biology on everyday life, how it
might look and feel
* Social and ethical concerns of synthetic biology such as bioterror,
biosecurity, the dual-use dilemma, questions around the creation of
synthetic life, governance, intellectual property and ownership,
bioerror and intentional environmental release
* DIY biology
* Participatory experiments and workshops


GROW YOUR OWN... will run at Science Gallery from October 2013 to
January 2014.

The open call for projects closes at 12 midnight on May 26th 2013. Full
details: http://sciencegallery.com/growyourown


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