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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 Festival.

“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.

The BOX

The BOX is an interactive installation by Dr Fiona Smith, Creator in Residence at Fraunhofer MEVIS, presented by the Institute for Design Informatics, exploring the practical and ethical implications of integrating AI technology into healthcare. Come explore the ‘black box’ aspect of AI technology in the context of digital medicine and journey into the internal and invisible workings of AI systems through the artwork.

Designing Data Humans

This interactive exhibition features the work of students from the MSc and MA Design Informatics course at the University of Edinburgh. Students have created a series of playful prototypes which examine and question our relationships to data technologies and consider how we can use data as a tool for design. The works on display help …

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