What Would You Do To Make London A Better Place?
Annual Open Labs Day...Similar to Open House Weekend, but celebrates our city's vast and under-appreciated science culture. The public get to question real scientists in working labs, and explore London's scientific history (Darwin, Newton, Hooke, Faraday, Franklin, Jenner, Davy, Maxwell...) through open days at places like the Royal Society, Royal Institution etc.
Posted by mattfromlondon about 3 years ago · 8 comments reply
great idea - this is a big part of what makes London great
Posted by Jobmuscroft about about 3 years ago
I've always wanted to help organise such a thing - hope it gets more votes!
Posted by mattfromlondon about about 3 years ago
love it! you get my vote, and tweet ;-) btw in the user profile there's an option for enabling automatic sharing on fb and twitter... it should be more transparent really..
Posted by abc3d about about 3 years ago
I love this idea. Completely ties into the increasing need to engage the public in science in a way that stops them being scared of it, or completely influenced by bad science reporting in the press.
Posted by SharmilaSub about about 3 years ago
Fantastic idea. Hopefully some of the London universities would support it too.
Posted by carolineroddis about about 3 years ago
Hmm, someone with a filthy mind just pointed out that Open Labs Day sounds a bit lewd. Maybe we could think of a better name. But I think the idea's a winner for everyone.
Posted by mattfromlondon about about 3 years ago
I think I like Open Labs... or maybe I'm just a very good boy and just don't get it!
Posted by abc3d about about 3 years ago
Many places already have their own local schemes to invite people in, but this would help by bringing in more science venues to visit and giving a much more powerful marketing push. I can see it becoming a valuable annual fixture.
Posted by franknorman about about 3 years ago
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