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.

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.

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.

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 …