Biohacking: Do It Yourself! - New lab installation
New Exhibition at Medical Museion:
Biohacking: Do It Yourself!
Biotechnology research is usually locked away in universities and industrial laboratories, but biohackers and do-it-yourself biologists want to set it free. The biohacking movement argues that the tools of biotechnology should be available and affordable, through places such as hacker labs where anyone can come and experiment.
From the 25th of January, Medical Museion, the University of Copenhagen's medical museum, will house an open biohacking laboratory, pieced together from recycled furniture, IKEA cabinets, and cheap "hacked" instruments made by do-it-yourself biologists from BiologiGaragen and Hackteria. At a series of hands-on events and discussions, visitors are invited to step inside the world of practical biotechnology, and encounter the dreams and realities of open science.
In this project, the museum is also being ‘hacked’ – as the Director Thomas Söderqvist writes, “Museums can learn a lot from hacker culture, for example, to build exhibitions and events on the user's initiative and with simple and available resources”.
A video trailer is available here: http://vimeo.com/57536108
Hours: Wednesday-Friday and Sunday, 12-4pm, from 25th January.
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 24th January at 7.30pm, and is free to all.
Open Days: Biohackers will be working in the lab on three Sundays in February (10th, 17th, and 24th), and visitors can join in the experiments.
Workshop: A do-it-yourself workshop will be held on the evening of March 14th at 7.30pm.
Symposium: On March 21st, 7.30pm, a public symposium in collaboration with the University’s Center for Synthetic Biology will bring together ethicists, legislators, sociologists and hackers to discuss the goals, concerns, and visions of open biology.
Tickets: The exhibition is included in the museum entrance price. However, tickets for the workshop on 14th March and for the Symposium on 21st March are sold through Billetto:
o14th March: http://billetto.dk/da/events/workshopigoer-det-selv-biologi
o 21st March: http://billetto.dk/da/events/kanmanbyggelivsyntetiskbiologiipraksisogtildebat
Details about all our partners and events can be found at medm.us/biohacking
Please contact Karin Tybjerg (karin.tybjerg@sund.ku.dk) or Louise Whiteley (louise.whiteley@sund.ku.dk) with any enquiries.
De bedste hilsener/Best regards,
Lasse Frank
Marketing & Event Coordinator
Scientific Assistant
Direct phone: +45 2962 0157
http://museion.ku.dk
http://metabol.ku.dk