This course normally runs at least one trip to somewhere exciting (previous years have gone to the theatre and the Science Museum). Given that we'll be talking about interactive and dialogue-based science communication in the next couple of weeks, I thought it would be good to pay a visit to what is - for better or worse - one of the foremost sites of this in the UK, the Science Museum's Dana Centre. This is free and right next door to Imperial, so you can pop in any time to one of their evening events (although you need to remember to book). An event might also be a good thing to blog about - it's a relatively new form of sci-comm and I think there would be a lot of interesting things to say.
But a group visit might be useful as well - we'll all be talking about the same thing then. So I'm going to go along to the event on Wednesday 22nd November, 'The Learning Brain'. The event - about lifelong learning and the brain - looks pretty interesting and, as this is a subject area which there may well be lay expertise in, will give us a chance to look at how good places like Dana are at incorporating this. Plus there's a good cafe-bar. If you want to come along, email me before this Friday, the 10th and I'll book for a group of us to go.
And if anyone has any good ideas for other trips, let us know.
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