Human Lab at Electric Picnic 2021
Year Awarded
2020
Amount
€25,000
- Organisation:Schweppe Curtis Nunn Limited
- Audience:General Public
- Location:national
Project Summary
The Human Lab will manifest itself as a colourful, bold and brand new STEM engagement hub at Electric Picnic – Ireland’s biggest annual outdoor music and arts festival. The festival will welcome an audience of 70,000 people to Stradbally Hall, Co. Laois between 3rd and 5th September 2021. The Human Lab will be designed as a dramatic, eye-catching 200 person capacity venue and will present across the weekend in partnership with Science Gallery, Dublin some 24 hours of compelling STEM programming. The Human Lab will form part of the MindField spoken word/ intelligent entertainment arena of Electric Picnic which also includes venues dedicated to podcasts, theatre, politics, writing and ideas.
The Human Lab programme will be specifically tailored to an audience of 18-25 year olds featuring compelling, interactive events addressing, for example, the socio-economic impact of pandemics, the vital importance of vaccines, the future of work and visions of our future society. Other themes will explore ecology and the environment; big data and privacy; the neuroscience of social media; mental health and much more. Expect live experiments which involve and engage the audience and new formats such as the Conspiracy Theory Show in which leading scientists debunk common conspiracy theories and junk science. The Factory of Thought will provide a real time intranet commenting facility during all talks which will enable audience members to vote on issues and contribute to a permanent online manifesto of The Human Lab.