PAST EVENTS

Organised Atoms at "0v ⏚ zero volts" // 06 Mar 2025

If you are around Brussels on 6 March, we'll be joining Constant VZW's 0v ⏚ zero volts event on technology, e-waste and conflict minerals which is at 20:00-22:00 CET.We'll be streaming Cornish crystal noise on our DIY semiconductor cardboard synthesisers, followed by a microscope introduction to Cornish minerals and ore structures. This part of the event will be recorded if you can't make it.

AccessLab - Healthy Soils // 25 Jan 2025

AccessLab is about broadening access to scientific research. The theme this time is ‘Healthy Soils’ - the event is free, and open to all. During the workshops we:Look at how scientific research is funded and published, and how you can access it freely.Cover basic fact-checking for media stories that relate to science.Have time to co-research a science-related topic of your choice one-to-one with a paired researcher. This can be anything you like and it doesn’t necessarily need to be limited to the ‘Healthy Soils’ theme. Your topic or question can relate to your work or your personal …

Then Try This at "What if...?", Knowle West Media Centre // 17 Oct 2024

We're heading to Bristol demo a load of projects (SmogOff, Sward App, Woven Robots, Wasp Game, Organised Atoms....) at "What if...?" hosted by Knowle West Media Centre. It's going to be a night of exploration into the world of community tech and art, the seeds of Tomorrow Growing Today. Join us online or in-person

Organised Atoms at United Downs Raceway: Fun Palace workshop // 06 Oct 2024

Join us for more crystal hunting and electronics, sign up info here.

Open Studio // 14 Sep 2024

We'll be opening our doors in Jubilee Warehouse in Penryn from 11am-2pm, and we'd love to see you there! Dogs, friends, families all welcome. Let us know if you're coming so we have an idea of numbers for CAKE.It's a small celebration of 10 years as a studio. There will be things to look at and play with. Alex will be down from Sheffield, so it's a nice chance to meet him too.

SmogOff talk - European Citizen Science Association // 01 Mar 2024

We're doing a short online talk on SmogOff, 1 March, 3pm CET. If you fancy joining, email us for a link.It's for the European Citizen Science Association's Working Group on Air Quality, and they've said we're welcome to invite others to come along.We'll do a quick run through how the sensors work, what's different about them, and why we made them.

Organised Atoms Open Lab // 21 Oct 2023 - 22 Oct 2023

Join us in an Open Lab playing with Cornish minerals and electronics, run with Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change, listening to the crystal structures of Cornish minerals. Linking Cornwall’s mining history and its current reality and dismantling myths of cyberspace and AI by grounding our technology to the rocks it comes from.Practicalities: The site is wheelchair accessible. Overflow parking at the Redruth Rugby Club near by.

Social Microbes - open a window under my feet // 30 Jul 2023

As part of the Social Microbes residency series, Francesca Willow will be performing her new choreography as well as installing pieces around Soul Farm. This will form part of a tour of the farm by its founder. This is open to anyone to come along, details below.Soul Farm (Community Interest Company) is a 3.5-acre no-dig market farm growing seasonal vegetables near Flushing in the Falmouth area of Cornwall. It is a food justice-oriented, ecologically supportive organisation, organised around making good food accessible to all and around restoring local people’s relationships with the land.Francesca Willow is a dance …

Social Microbes - art, gut microbes and autism research // 20 Jun 2023 - 24 Jun 2023

Final event and exhibition by Hat Porter who has been doing a Social Microbes residency with us, Dr. Elze Hesse, and the Fish Factory.There’s an opening event on Tuesday 20th June, 6-8pm at the Fish Factory if anyone would like to come and chat to Hat about their work.The exhibition will be a blend of multimedia art as well as academic style research looking at research on gut microbes and autism in the context of autistic peoples priorities for research and wider issues across the research field. The show will also include launch of a zine which …

Social Microbes - using art to explore autistic people's views on gut microbiota and autism research // 23 May 2023

One of our Social Microbes residents, Hat Porter, is running this event as part of their residency. Details and sign up form below.My name is Hat (they/them) I'm an autistic artist currently doing an artist residency on the theme of "social microbes" at The Fish Factory in Penryn supported by Then Try This and Dr Elze Hesse. Please read this information and if you are interested in joining this event please fill in the form and I will send the full details of the location and add your name to a list so I know who to expect.  …