Engaging the 5th Dimension

As part of the public engagement activities around the 5th Dimensional Camera project, we ran a school workshop with A level science students from York. They were given an overview of the project in the exhibition, and we then discussed various possibilities and likely implications of Quantum Computing. Finally, all of us split into teams and came up with different scenarios around what they might wish to photograph with the 5th Dimensional Camera. Overall, a fantastic, inspiring day! And the scenarios varied, pushing the limits of time: One group photographed themselves in front of the camera for a month, another traveled with it to New York, while another put it on the moon, pointed it on earth and left the timer on for 100 years! Ultimately, the workshop inspired us to continue developing new ways of engaging with different groups of people, which we aim to do with the couple of other science-related projects we are currently working on, from the Lab.