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Designing Global Data Interactions: Combining data, research, theory and practice

Read about the 17 creative, by Design Informatics Students, exploring relationships between diverse sets of data, connecting local and global at multiple physical scales. This was the culmination of weeks of theoretical and practical investigation, with each project challenging students to examine the interdependence of ecological systems, technology and the body, and to translate these…
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Between Glass and Magnetic Fields: A conceptual journey of MRI through glass

Between Glass and Magnetic Fields emerged from the STEAM Imaging VI residency program, developed by Fraunhofer MEVIS. This program set out to create a framework in which the abstract processes of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) could be encountered differently, not only explained, but explored, shared, and critically reflected upon through artistic practice. Presented in Inspace,…
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Inspace hosts new solo exhibition Right to Roam from artist Sarah Calmus

New solo exhibition Right to Roam from artist Sarah Calmus explores our connection to nature through freedom of movement Right to Roam is a new accessible multisensory immersive exhibition from the Scotland-based environmental artist Sarah Calmus. Taking Scotland’s outdoor access rights as its starting point, the exhibition asks us to consider the Right to Roam…
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Glass Art: Making MRI Tangible

Fraunhofer MEVIS STEAM Imaging Residency Culminates in Interactive Exhibition at Edinburgh Science Festival How can complex physical processes be made visible and tangible? It was this question that British glass artist Gregory Alliss explored last November during the art residency “STEAM Imaging VI.” The residency, hosted by Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in collaboration…
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Announcing Inspace 2026 Edinburgh Science Festival Programme

We are delighted to be back again this year partnering with the Edinburgh Science Festival to bring you two featured exhibitions.
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Design Informatics Research Seminar Series is Back!

We are delighted to announce Design Informatics upcoming research seminars, open to anyone, taking place at Inspace and kicking off this Winter/Spring. Design Informatics Seminars usually feature works-in-progress or new projects exploring design, data and technology from different perspectives.
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Inspace Brand Refresh

We are excited to share our newly refreshed logo and branding which has been reimagined and redesigned in collaboration with graphic designer and Design Informatics PhD candidate Billy Franks. Our approach was to lean into the unique and progressive architecture of Inspace and the digital, technology and data driven works that we platform.
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Announcing Inspace 2026 Creative Programme

We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions, events and performances taking place in Inspace to kick off 2026 and promising to bring you an exciting fusion of art, design, research and technology.
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Resonant Connections through Design and Data

We are delighted to share this snippet from last month (November), during this year’s Fraunhofer MEVIS residency in Bremen, Germany, which featured work in progress by Edinburgh College of Art PhD student Gregory Alliss, this year’s STEAM Imaging Creator in Residence. The residency took place across two weeks and we are looking forward to hosting Gregory, glass…
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Digital Ghosts: The Hauntings of Data

In the physical world, traces of people are everywhere. Digital traces, however are a different story. Read this blog post by Andrea Kocsis and Dorsey Kaufmann to learn more about Digital Ghosts.
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I & AI: Mirror — Reflections on Human–AI Intimacy

What does it mean to be near a machine that listens, learns, mirrors, hesitates, and responds? What forms of closeness can emerge between an AI-inflected human self (I-dentity) and a human-inflected AI self (AI-dentity)? Read this blog post by Jiarong Yu, to find out more about I & AI: Mirror Immersive Installation, which took place…
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Announcing Inspace Autumn Exhibition Programme

We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions and events taking place in Inspace over the coming months, promising to bring you an inspiring fusion of art, design, research and technology.
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We Are Hiring!

An exciting support opportunity has opened in the Institutes for Design Informatics, Inspace and OPENspace! Apply now to join this exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. DEADLINE: 9TH OCT
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Announcing new art and AI exhibitions programme by Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID)

Announcing new art and AI exhibitions programme exploring how artists are actively shaping the future of culture and creativity in the age of AI. Presenting two groundbreaking exhibitions of new work this August, hosted by Inspace and Informatics Forum, and forming a highlight of the upcoming 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Announcing Call for Creatives for STEAM Imaging VI: Resonant Connections through Design and Data

We are delighted to announce this new Call for Creatives across the University of Edinburgh, with the residencies’ host, Fraunhofer MEVIS, for a Residency & Science Engagement Programme. This is an exciting new and unique opportunity for postgraduate PhD students to explore and demystify Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
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BRAID Art Commission Recipients Announced

Inspace is thrilled to share Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme announcement of the selection of seven outstanding UK-based artists for their commissioning project aimed at exploring and enriching the responsible AI ecosystem through artistic expression and to be premiered at Inspace for the 2025 Edinburgh Art Festival.
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Authenticity Unmasked: Commission Recipients Announced

We are delighted to share the news of the recipients of the Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art artist commissions, the culmination of which will be exhibited during the 2025 Edinburgh summer festivals as part of a broader AI, Art and Creativity showcase. More details to be announced soon.
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Inspace at the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival

We are delighted to announce that we are back again this year partnering with the Edinburgh Science Festival to bring you two featured exhibitions along with performances and late events. From intergalactic connections of data, technology and matter, to biomaterials and human-centred design, this is just a glimpse of Inspace’s will present at this year’s…
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Up Next at Inspace: Data, Technology and Creativity

We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions taking place at Inspace to kick off our 2025 programme, featuring exhibitions that showcase different aspects of research and collaboration that incorporate and combine data, technology and creativity.
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Announcing BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar 2025 Spring Series

For this series Inspace joins together the Bridging Responsible AI Divides project (BRAID) and our own Institute for Design Informatics (IDI) to bring audiences speakers exploring themes and topics around Responsible AI, Human Computer Interaction and Digital Humanities. Invited speakers come from a range of backgrounds spanning design, technology, philosophy, computer and social sciences.
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Inspace hosts ‘A Call to Action’ student exhibition from exciting new course

Inspace hosts design student exhibition from exciting new course Revolutionising Design for the Climate Emergency. Visit Inspace on the 31 Nov – 1st Dec, across the weekend to celebrate this exciting new course and support Edinburgh College of Art design students’ innovative work.
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Authenticity Unmasked Open Call for Artists

Inspace is delighted to share ‘Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art’ Open Call for Artist Commissions, delivered by CREA-TEC (“Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”), a project led by the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Adobe.
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Exciting new responsible AI Open Call for Artists

Exciting new responsible AI Open Call for Artists: Inspace is excited to be partnering with BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) project who will commission five UK-based artists or artist groups to create artworks that explore new ways to think about today’s AI and the futures we want work in responsible AI to help us build.
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Announcing Inspace Autumn-Winter Exhibition Programme

We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions taking place at Inspace to bring our 2024 programme to a close, featuring three exhibitions that explore AI from a range of different perspectives
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Design Informatics and Inspace collaborations feature at Ars Electronica Festival 2024

We were honoured to have two Design Informatics’ and Inspace collaborations, The BOX 2.0 by Fiona Smith and DUCK by Rachel Maclean, presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 in Linz earlier this September.
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Inspace announced as Fringe Venue for the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival

For the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe we are delighted to announce our partnership with the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival as one of their Fringe venues for this exciting relaunch. Visit Inspace from the 15th-21st of August to see it transformed into a cinema theatre.
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An Obscure Camera | Artist in Residence

We are delighted to announce Nic Sandiland, artist and co-founder of creative production company Flexer&Sandiland, as our Inspace Artist-in-Residence this June. The focus of Sandiland’s residency will be on An Obscure Camera, an immersive participatory light installation, incorporating a live camera feed, to explore notions of ‘following’, ‘public space’, ‘the everyday’ and the ‘camera’s gaze’.
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“The BOX Will See You Now”

Find out more about how ‘The BOX’ interactive artwork has come about including how it all started back in November 2023, when Scottish artist, scientist, and physician Fiona Smith visited Fraunhofer MEVIS in Bremen to develop this work and concept, as part of the “STEAM Imaging V” residency program.
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Inspace at the 2024 Science Festival

Presenting a programme of exhibitions and events featuring Design Informatics Master students and Creator in Residence exploring AI, technology, data and ethics.
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Fraunhofer MEVIS Creator in Residence Announced

We are delighted to share that the selected Creator in Residence with Fraunhofer MEVIS’ residency program STEAM Imaging V – Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account, has been announced following our open call to University of Edinburgh PhD and postgraduate students earlier this year.
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