Workshop | From the other side of the spyglass

What does our world look like when we become smaller than a speck of dust? On a bacterial scale, a single drop of water becomes a vast territory to explore. Yet these microorganisms, invisible to the naked eye, play a vital role in our environment, and some are even capable of breaking down or producing plastics. Join us for a workshop to journey across different scales and discover them for yourself.

This exploration will accompany the design of a new low-tech microscope, developed from *La Lorgnette des micromondes*, conceived by the maker Guillaume Leguen. The aim: to enable school classes in the future to observe the interactions between microorganisms and plastic, using a tool that is accessible, reproducible and suited to science outreach. This project stems from the participatory research programme *Des générations plastiques* and has received the *Têtes Chercheuses* award to continue its development.

But before we build the tool, we first need to imagine what we can do with it! During this workshop, you’ll discover the microscope, immerse yourselves in a series of images and experiments exploring the microscopic world, and then, in small groups, come up with scenarios for using the future microscope. What might we observe? Who would use it? How could we share the images produced? And above all, how can we convey this incredible sense of scale that separates our world from that of bacteria? Your ideas will contribute directly to the design of the future educational kit intended for school classes.

Registration: https://ledome.info/evenement/de-lautre-cote-de-la-lorgnette/

• Free for all