St George’s Square will be hosting parts of an aircraft and an artistic maze at this year’s Science in the City, to take place on Friday.

Lufthansa Technik Malta will be displaying a model aircraft and real-sized sections, while Logix Creative and DAAA Haus will be setting up a large labyrinth, where people can explore various scientific concepts with an artistic twist, thus a re-imagined square.

Lufthansa Technik will have a thruster, shark-skin paint sample, live non-destructive testing, a video showing how aircraft fly inside a tail cone and how air samples are taken.

Visitors will have the chance to win a return flight to Frankfurt and a visit to the Lufthansa Flight Simulator station for two people.

AMaze2 will house a host of scientific themes presented with an artistic flair. There are several exhibits, including one on the particle accelerator at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, X-ray crystallography and a tech-biogarden installation. The large labyrinth installation has been designed by Logix Creative and Daaa Haus for Science in the City, the Valletta 2018 Foundation and Notte Bianca.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is used to study the fundamental constituents of matter. Visitors will get a first-hand account of how a particle accelerator works. Computer scientist Gianluca Valentino heads the team behind this installation.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider art installation will be another attraction.CERN’s Large Hadron Collider art installation will be another attraction.

The project involves several interactive exhibits on how the universe works and matter is kept together.

Constructed by scientists together with a number of artists and ICT experts, the art installation produced by the art group IZAXA is in collaboration with Rosalin Bonetta, a biochemistry researcher at the University of Malta.

The installation invites participants to explore the inner workings of X-ray crystallography on the 100th anniversary since its beginning.

Biopilot 1.0 by artist Mirjana Batinić is a cross-disciplinary tech-biogarden installation. Set as a computer-controlled sound platform, this work is open to everyone wanting to play with devices and making their own sounds with living systems.

The work is a live pulsing art-sci organism.

www.scienceinthecity.org.mt

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