Our team thinks that everyone should be able to learn new things, even if it is not related to what they study or what they do for a living.
So, to make our project more accessible to people from outside the iGEM community or even the STEM community we have done multiple activities as:
Present our project to older people in psychiatric residence: Padre Meni.
Here we presented our project in a more simple way for all to understand, instead of getting into detail and explaining the more complex stuff. We made a simple summary of our project and talked about things that they would know and feel interested in, such as our working places. What we wanted to achieve was to reach a new audience, as sometimes we suppose that older and sick people won’t be interested, but most times they are interested and don’t feel included.
Open social media accounts to reach a younger and newer audience that didn’t know about synthetic biology.
Throughout our project we have realized that not a lot of people know about iGEM in our environment. So what we wanted to do with our social media is to make an appealing feed so that more people can feel interested in this type of project, as they see it from a new perspective.
Make public events to which everyone could come and learn more about our project or about Synthetic biology in general.
As we’ve said before, we wanted to appeal to as many people from our community as we could in order to explain our project, iGEM and synthetic biology in general. To be able to get to as many people as possible we decided to do it the old-fashioned way, opening the door of our working place and explaining our project ourselves.
Collaborate with artists that want to learn more about biology and are excited to work with us.
When we got contacted by Amaia Vicente, who is an artist making an investigation for her doctorate, we saw an incredible opportunity to include art in our project and at the same time appeal to other type of personalities that we sometimes think would never be interested in our studies.