Light Laboratory: Optical Science Past, Present, Future

Light Laboratory: Optical Science Past, Present, Future is a Citizen Science event that brings the worlds of STEM and Theatre together on Sunday, 16 November 2025 – and we need you! Join us during Science Week celebrating the theme of Then. Today. Tomorrow, for a novel and illuminating Science of Light journey. This in-person experience beings 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 will guide you through cutting-edge research and technologies that build on those foundational principles—offering a glimpse into the present frontiers of Optical Science. We then invite you, over refreshments, to share your ideas and visions for the future. How might these technologies evolve? What could the future of light look like?