DIY Laboratory@CUBEmumbai

3 day workshop in Do it yourself Biology

Where?CUBE in Mumabi

This three day workshop by (Art)ScienceBLR is open to Artists, Teachers, students, scientists. The workshop will cover Do it yourself techniques in building laboratory equipment. We will repurpose trash, consumer electronics to build scientific equipment and retake the scientific instrument from the establishment and institutions and turn into a tool for personal enquiry and personal expression. We will discuss the aesthetics of the scientific instrument and other issues in Citizen Science......

TO DO:

Setup Wiki Write Blog Design Posters

Feb 17th -Setting up Space -walking around TIFR -Making note of intersting trash and junk

Feb 18th

-Intro -Maybe brief presentation / introductions -Walking around TIFR Collecting Junk -Hello World - Building our first Microscope

Feb 19th -Take another field trip -Look for Organisms- Diatoms = water quality. -Discussions- What is a laboratory? Start building a GEL box Primers?(Shreyasi?) Build a incubator What should we grow in the Incubator?

Feb 20th Everyone shows their own laboratory Time to build a PCR?(maybe)

Materials List Webcams for microscopes Do we have access to a Lasercutter(for the stage?) Styrafoam boxes FISH-AQUARIUMS TAPE CARDBOARD SCISSORS SOLDERING IRONS ARDUINOS LED WIRES WIRE STRIPPERS MUSIC SYSTEM(->IMPORTANT) nanodrop turbidity meter