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‘Street Science‘ is a celebration of uncertainty, since it’s only through uncertainty is there the POTENTIAL for understanding.

All our Street Science / Public Art projects aim to place people in the position of ‘SEEING THEMSELVES SEE‘... to place people in the position to be observers of the intimately private process of ‘making sense‘. Only by becoming aware of the fact that our behaviours are responses shaped by one’s ecology is their the potential to become an active agent in this process, in order to change how one responds in the future. We strongly believe that through SEEING MYSELF SEE is there the possibility for creativity, choice - and most – importantly compassion.

In contrast to ‘Public Art‘, ‘Street Science‘ is about doing REAL experiments in PUBLIC SPACES or even on the public themselves. By making others part of the process of exploration and discovery, the aim is to encourage a more empathetic view of nature and human nature. Of course the risk of Street Science is public failure, since most experiments - almost by definition – ‘don't work‘. But without risk there is nothing.

More generally the aim of all our public work is one thing... to place people in the unique context of ‘Seeing themselves see‘, of being observers of the process by which they literally ‘making sense‘ of themselves and the world. Only by understanding the fundamental relationship between one’s behaviours and one's ecological history is it possible to have choices, to be compassion and to consciously create.

Street Science is also about experiencing the essence of science. Science isn't about what’s known. Nor is it about what isn't known. At its most basic level, SCIENCE is nothing more than a process of playing games and making puzzles that may or may not tell us something about the world or ourselves in that world. When thought of in this way, it’s obvious that we all ‘do science‘ hundreds of times a day every day, which is about discovering and exploring through interaction. When interaction is made conscious and combined with reflection, that is ‘science‘.