Team:Heidelberg/Outreach

Additionally, as we try to improve the efficiency of gold-recycling, we concluded that we should gain an understanding of the current methods to recover gold and discuss the potential of our gold recovery approach with experts in this field .Hence, we set up a visit of a delegation of our team to the gold-recycling company TBM Edelmetall Recycling. This visit will take place in October, as they are working short time over the summer. ">

Additionally, as we try to improve the efficiency of gold-recycling, we concluded that we should gain an understanding of the current methods to recover gold and discuss the potential of our gold recovery approach with experts in this field .Hence, we set up a visit of a delegation of our team to the gold-recycling company TBM Edelmetall Recycling. This visit will take place in October, as they are working short time over the summer. ">

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Furthermore, we were invited to the secular humanists, a group of critical minds with a broad range of interests, such as ethics, philosophy, politics, natural sciences, who meet and discuss current issues concerning these topics. Their clear focus is ethics, as many of them are philosophers, however, there are natural scientist, economists and linguists as well. This mix of characters, approaches and expertise made it both challenging to present the project appropriately (i.e. on a suitable level of abstraction) and highly interesting and valuable for a discussion. After our 1-hour long talk, interrupted by first questions, we entered another 2 hours of discussion with the entire audience. Everyone was eager to ask explanatory to drilling questions and to give their opinion. The range of questions was, as indicated earlier, quite broad, reaching from “What exactly is the sense of your project?” to “Is synthetic biology at all controllable? If something has economic value, people won’t be able to control it, right?”. We also performed our Life-/Live-Experiment with the secular humanists, and when analyzing the feedback forms, it was clear that we had talked to philosophers: questions like “Is there anyone (or any institution) who has the authority to set the boarders (i.e. when going far is going too far)?” or ”Is not synthetic biology somehow a second industrial revolution? Only that the steam engines we are building have the ability to change when we are turning our backs on them?” remained unanswered. ">

Furthermore, we were invited to the secular humanists, a group of critical minds with a broad range of interests, such as ethics, philosophy, politics, natural sciences, who meet and discuss current issues concerning these topics. Their clear focus is ethics, as many of them are philosophers, however, there are natural scientist, economists and linguists as well. This mix of characters, approaches and expertise made it both challenging to present the project appropriately (i.e. on a suitable level of abstraction) and highly interesting and valuable for a discussion. After our 1-hour long talk, interrupted by first questions, we entered another 2 hours of discussion with the entire audience. Everyone was eager to ask explanatory to drilling questions and to give their opinion. The range of questions was, as indicated earlier, quite broad, reaching from “What exactly is the sense of your project?” to “Is synthetic biology at all controllable? If something has economic value, people won’t be able to control it, right?”. We also performed our Life-/Live-Experiment with the secular humanists, and when analyzing the feedback forms, it was clear that we had talked to philosophers: questions like “Is there anyone (or any institution) who has the authority to set the boarders (i.e. when going far is going too far)?” or ”Is not synthetic biology somehow a second industrial revolution? Only that the steam engines we are building have the ability to change when we are turning our backs on them?” remained unanswered. ">

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We are grateful for the input we received as the different aspects and target groups were covered byin the individual essays. The essay one that, to our minds, describinges these far-reaching consequences best was submitted by Isabel Marleen Pötzsch. ">

We are grateful for the input we received as the different aspects and target groups were covered byin the individual essays. The essay one that, to our minds, describinges these far-reaching consequences best was submitted by Isabel Marleen Pötzsch. ">

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                     Inspiring interaction with artists<br /><br />

                     Inspiring interaction with artists<br /><br />

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