Light Laboratory

Light Laboratory: Optical Science Past, Present, Future Science Week 2025

Light Laboratory: Optical Science Past, Present, Future is a Citizen Science event that brings the worlds of STEM and Theatre together.

A special word of thanks to those who joined us from Cork city, county and beyond for a novel and illuminating Science of Light journey during Science Week, November 2025 to celebrate the theme Then. Today. Tomorrow. 

This in-person experience began at The Granary Theatre, transformed for Science Week into a dynamic Light Laboratory, where Optical Science principles of the past will be demonstrated with dramatic effect. Following this, and adjacent to The Granary Theatre at the Tyndall National Institute, scientists guided attendees through cutting-edge research and technologies building on those foundational principles—offering a glimpse into the present frontiers of Optical Science. We then invited attendees, over refreshments, to share their ideas and visions for the future. How might these technologies evolve? What could the future of light look like?

Funded by Research Ireland under the Discover Science Week Programme and organised by The Future Humanities Institute and IPIC - Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork.

For more information on the IPIC please see here https://www.ipic.ie/

For more information on Tyndall National Institute please see here https://www.tyndall.ie/ 

Thank you for joining us to spark your Light Laboratory journey! 

Please contact the Light Laboratory at lightlaboratory@ucc.ie for more information

Please see here for our Science Week highlights! Light Laboratory Science Week 2025

Science Week Optical Science Past Present Future Illustrations - Gaeilge/English