2025 TOTL Conference

“Microbiology Literacy Outreach Through Public Kinetic Sculpture Art Exhibitions” has been accepted as a presentation for the 2025 Thompson Okanagan Teaching and Learning Conference (TOTLC).

May 13-14, 2025
Thompson Rivers University Campus, Kamloops, B.C.

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Description: This presentation will showcase a unique collaboration between a microbiologist and a kinetic sculpture (automata) artist in an edutainment project bridging scientific knowledge and public microbiology literacy through an art exhibition. Working with Lily Dalley (automata artist), Geordie Stenner (research student), and Franklin Sayre (TRU Library Makerspace), a set of microbiological laboratories and selected microbiological research spanning from the 1600s to the present was created. The eight kinetic sculptures were exhibited at various public places to promote how beneficial microorganisms in and around us can be and to debunk societal beliefs that bacteria are ALL bad.