We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions taking place at Inspace to kick off our 2025 programme.

This programme features exhibitions that showcase different aspects of research and collaboration that incorporate and combine data, technology and creativity.

Our first exhibition You’re Not Alone showcases the creative work resulting from a participatory community research project that uses photos and storytelling as the tools to connect and share perspectives. Coast to Coast promises to animate Inspace street facing City Screen for a final time this season, scanning and translating a small data set of images onto these large format panoramic projections. This years Science Festival exhibitions will feature interactive and immersive prototypes and displays that reflect this year’s Science Festival theme, Spaceship Earth, exploring the challenges of living on a planet with finite resources. And for Speaking Towards One Another Inspace will be transformed through a multidisciplinary theatrical performance and installation that uses technology and creativity to explore the body, gender representation, and resilience within disability.

You’re Not Alone

Sat – Sat | 1-8 Mar (closed Sun/Tues/Thurs)

This exhibition presents the experiences and priorities of Autistic people with eating disorders through participatory research method Photovoice, which uses photography and storytelling to document and share people’s experiences

Come along experience the stories of this community told through photographs and drawings.

Coast to Coast

Fri-Sun 15-16 Mar

Coast to Coast is a photography exhibition of work created by Caroline Parkinson during her journey across the United States of America, capturing analogue and digital photography of these diverse landscapes.

Check out Inspace City Screens, along Potterrow, to see the translation of this journey, as it lights up Edinburgh’s dark wintery skies.

Inspace at the 2025 Science Festival

Fri-Sat 5 – 20 Apr
[programme announced in Feb]

We are back again this year partnering with the Edinburgh Science Festival to bring you two featured exhibitions. The details are all under wraps until the the programme launch next month, so watch this space.

Check back with us in February for the announcement of this year’s featured exhibitions!

Speaking Towards One Another

Fri-Wed 23 – 22 May

We are delighted to host this unique opening performance which will use live electronics to transform and digitise the singing and speaking voice, and wearable digital technologies to transform British Sign Language into live sounds and visuals.

The first full performance will premiere in Inspace in May 2025 as part of a video and sound installation.

About Inspace

Inspace is part of the Institute for Design Informatics and is a collaborative hub, commissioning and producing creative activity. Our public programme connects data, research and creative talent. We host events and exhibitions where people can explore, learn, debate and create. Our programme unlocks digital technologies, tools and data and explores their role in society through a creative lens. We are home to Inspace City Screens, a unique seven screen street front projection space visible from Potterrow in Edinburgh.

About the Institute for Design Informatics

In the Institute for Design Informatics, we fuse design and creative methodologies with data, data science and data-driven technologies. We create prototypes and experiences that make real to people the ideas that underpin the data society, and aim to ensure that new technologies sustain and enhance human values.