• Blood group test
• Bioscience student taking staff and other students through a blood grouping practical
• Imaging Science task, challenging expectations of what a phone screen looks like through a microscope
• Group Illustration exercise, diverse interpretations from a constant verbal description
• Close up of an illustration (described pollen grain)
• Creative interpretations of the photography brief to capture body parts through a range of imaging lenses, from macro to micro
• Computer Science student taking the group through a computer imaging exercise to construct a strand of DNA
• Sharing the results of the computer imaging exercise
• Exploratory lab practical of an eye dissection
• The Monsters of Microscopy, artwork by Fiona Marchbank
• The Forest, artwork by Nina Jørgensen
• Buttercups and Bones, artwork by Ailish Sullivan
• Massive Zoomable Microscope, artwork by Joshua Dinsmore
• Duality, artwork by Anand Damodaran
• Image produced in eye tracker experiment exploring how we examine photographic images from macro to micro
• Taking residence in London Gallery West to share work and build the exhibition
• Student sharing work with others in the gallery
• Panel discussion with student researchers, at Broad Vision Symposium, chaired by educational researcher, Dr Silke Lange
• Gallery installation of The Art & Science of Looking at London Gallery West
• Student researcher showing off her work to family at the exhibition of The Art & Science of Looking at London Gallery West
• Visitors admiring Alien by Moacir Lopes

The Art of Science & Looking (2011)

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Thirty-three student and staff researchers from six disciplines across four Schools at the University of Westminster investigated these questions through a year long research project designed to explore how we look, see and interpret microscopic worlds.

Broad Vision brought together researchers from the diverse fields of Photographic Arts, Imaging Science, Illustration, Computer Science, Psychology and Biomedical Science. Microscopy and other imaging technologies were used to explore themes of scale and abstraction, seeing and analysing, science and art.

Students with wide eyes and open minds took the laboratory into the studio and the studio into the laboratory, stepping out of the comfort of familiar territory into unknown disciplinary processes and modes of thinking. By engaging with different - but related - disciplines students had opportunities to see through the eyes of others and developed the means of sharing, developing and communicating their subject-specific knowledge in novel and exciting ways.

The research conducted was disseminated through exhibitions, publications and presentations at conferences and symposia. The Broad Vision project developed innovative approaches to inquiry based learning across art and science disciplines, which informed future collaborative projects and proposals.