On the 6th of March to the 9th March, I partook in a week long course in Trinity College’s Science Gallery. The TY week would focus on teaching us, a group of 17, the combination of Design, Art, and Science.
For the first day we did team building exercises so that we could all get introduced to each-other. Afterwards we were given a tour of the Science Gallery’s newest exhibit titled FAKE, an exhibit based around an ever growing world of fakes and how our perception of what is real and what is fake is becoming clouded and harder to seperate from one another.
Over the next few days, multiple speakers and Trinity College students spoke to us about various topics from solar flares, to concept and design, and to Low Frequency Satellites.
For our week, we spent a good portion of time working on new concepts for a museum being built in Birr Castle, Co. Offaly. This is the site of the famous Kraken Telescope, which was once the largest telescope in all of europe. Now they are building a new Low Frequency Radio Satellite station there that interconnects with satellites all over europe to create a connected satellite with a dish size equivalent to the size of europe. It is called I-LoFar.
At the site, they are constructing a museum to honour Birr Castle’s past and to teach people about the new I-LoFar system. We were tasked with helping to design the museum and the attractions inside of it. In the end my design was more expensive than feasibly possible.
Overall I really enjoyed the week and all that I learned from it, and I made connections with other friendly like minded people who I hope to keep in touch with as much as possible.
For the first day we did team building exercises so that we could all get introduced to each-other. Afterwards we were given a tour of the Science Gallery’s newest exhibit titled FAKE, an exhibit based around an ever growing world of fakes and how our perception of what is real and what is fake is becoming clouded and harder to seperate from one another.
Over the next few days, multiple speakers and Trinity College students spoke to us about various topics from solar flares, to concept and design, and to Low Frequency Satellites.
For our week, we spent a good portion of time working on new concepts for a museum being built in Birr Castle, Co. Offaly. This is the site of the famous Kraken Telescope, which was once the largest telescope in all of europe. Now they are building a new Low Frequency Radio Satellite station there that interconnects with satellites all over europe to create a connected satellite with a dish size equivalent to the size of europe. It is called I-LoFar.
At the site, they are constructing a museum to honour Birr Castle’s past and to teach people about the new I-LoFar system. We were tasked with helping to design the museum and the attractions inside of it. In the end my design was more expensive than feasibly possible.
Overall I really enjoyed the week and all that I learned from it, and I made connections with other friendly like minded people who I hope to keep in touch with as much as possible.