We could do with your help testing our new game about wasps... and in return we'll supply some free wood-fired pizza and bottomless tea. The game testing should only take ~10 minutes, and you can drop in any time between 18:00-19:30. If you are able to, do bring along a laptop, tablet or phone, simply because the more different types of device we test it on the more robust it will be - if you don't have anything to bring it's no problem at all.Working with Dr. Seirian Sumner from UCL, we've been developing the game to allow people …

The joint FoAM/Eden Project Invisible Worlds resident for 2019 - Austin Houldsworth - will be in residence at the Eden Project from 24-31 Oct 2019.No buyer for your property? Has climate change ruined the housing market in your area? ‘The Intergalactic Estate Agency’ is here to help. We will mitigate your fears by finding a buyer with the technology and intelligence to see the uninhabitable as a property with potential. Launching at the Eden Project this October, the Intergalactic Estate Agency can help facilitate your property sale by transmitting it into space. Our friendly staff will advise on when …

A free workshop to design a new sound map for the Sonic Kayak, to make it possible for people with visual impairments to kayak independently at a lake site in Cornwall.For this event we'll be working with Access Lizard Adventure who have substantial experience in accessible kayaking, and will make sure everything we do is safe. We'll also be joined by pioneering music maker Kaffe Matthews, who gives immediate ways in to unfamiliar sound and music for wide ranging audiences.Together we'll record new sounds and place them on a map of a lake to design and …

A free AccessLab for anyone interested in climate change.AccessLabs are for anyone who wants to learn how to find sources of scientific information and how to judge the reliability of these sources. It's also a chance to meet and connect with scientific researchers from your local area. No prior experience is necessary. During the workshop we will:Look at how scientific research is published and how you can access it.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 …

FoAM will be talking at the Peninsula Forum for Environment and Human Health 2019 about our approach to involving people better in research. We'll also be introducing the Sonic Kayaks, before handing over to a whole session with Jo Garrett and Access Lizard Adventure to tell you about how they are developing the project further.The event is free but you need to register here.

Our woven maypole dancing robots are heading to Sheffield's Algomech festival as part of a range of Penelope related activities there. We will be inviting people to help the Penelopean robots weave on a experimental may pole during two performances at the Winter Garden on Saturday and Sunday and also doing a little talk about them at the Dancing and Brading Symposium on Friday. Tickets are available here.Symposium On dancing and braiding Site gallery 10:00 - 17:00Pop-Up Performances Day 1 of performances and drop-in activities Winter garden 11:00 - 16:00Pop-Up Performances Day 2 of …

Viruscraft is an experiment in creating new ways to understand the invisible world of viruses. With researcher Ben Longdon at Exeter university, FoAM Kernow has been building games, simulation worlds and novel tangible interfaces that explore how viruses jump between species and evolve over long periods of time.This open play testing activity will be a chance to have a go at mutating a large virus exhibit and seeing how your newly created disease infects a world of unsuspecting creatures. FoAM Kernow will be tinkering and adapting the game in response to your thoughts and ideas.The event is held …

Recent world events and concern over ‘fake news’ and ‘post-factualism’ have highlighted the difficulties encountered when trying to find trustworthy sources of information. The ability to judge the reliability of different sources of information is a skill that can be learned. The AccessLab project aims to improve access to and the judgement of information, through direct citizen-scientist pairings.For this AccessLab workshop, we are focusing on people who work or are otherwise involved in the Parliamentary, Council and Policy sectors. We are defining this group very broadly, so for example you might work for a charity that advises or lobbies …

The FoAM Kernow studio will be at the Bloomsbury Festival in London on 20 October, as part of the UCL ExCiteS Citizen Science showcase. The theme for the festival this year is Activists and Architects for Change, and we'll be showing our Sonic Kayaks, Crap App and Greenspace Voxels projects.

The second of our joint FoAM-Eden Project Invisible Worlds residencies is '... and then we see if we will be friends' with Katharina Hauke and Till Bovermann of TAI Studio. The residency will take place in the new Invisible Worlds exhibition laboratory at the Eden Project, and visitors are free to drop in at any time. You can follow the progress of the residency here.Within this project, Katharina Hauke and Till Bovermann invite all curious organisms and life-forms in and around the Eden Project to create sounds and improvised experimental music together.Small networked music making …