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Our project was not limited to the workbench! | Our project was not limited to the workbench! | ||
− | We | + | We passed through the laboratory doors to '''meet experts''' and to face the '''reality''' of the field. |
− | We had many fruitful conversations with an '''engineer | + | We had many fruitful conversations with an '''ecological engineer''' who advised us about the current situation and environmental pollution. |
− | + | A '''history doctoral student''' enlightened us about the importance of metals issues throughout the History of mankind! | |
+ | We got advise from '''an expert in process engineering and biotechnology''', to construct and define our process and to understand the current industrial possibilities available to biotechnology. | ||
+ | We asked the '''University of Pretoria iGEM team''' to investigated for us the social issues and conditions of platinum mining, by interviewing experts. | ||
Finally we shared and did popularization on our project by attending to '''meetings''', '''events''' and in '''medias''' (website, radio, local written press). | Finally we shared and did popularization on our project by attending to '''meetings''', '''events''' and in '''medias''' (website, radio, local written press). | ||
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− | We wondered if | + | We presented the synthetic biology toolbox to the general public, and talked about how it could be applied to solve environmental problems such as in those in our project. |
+ | More details can be found on the [[Team:Aix-Marseille/Engagement|Engagement]] page. | ||
+ | Those meeting allowed us to share our project with lots of people with little knowledge of biology... | ||
+ | We presented synthetic biology to both children and their parents in different events. | ||
+ | Popularizing our project was really interesting and new for us because we had to find new ways to explain synthetic biology and our project. | ||
+ | Moreover our project was very well received by public and our conversations with people coming from different backgrounds was really motivating for us! | ||
+ | We also shared our project with people more familiar with biology and biotechnology. | ||
+ | Their questions and interrogations were really useful to us for building and developing our project and wiki. | ||
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+ | We wondered if the different social issues around platinum were characteristic to our century and to what extent such issues could have mattered in the past. | ||
+ | The history doctoral student we interviewed taught us a lot of things about many subjects related to metals. | ||
+ | This made us realize that many of the problems we had highlighted related to platinum have existed throughout the history of mankind: pollution, ownership of resources, work conditions, availability... | ||
==Gold== | ==Gold== | ||
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As we didn't really know what was the actual situation in environment and what solutions are being developed to face metal pollution, we asked for advice to an [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Environment ecologist engineer]. He showed us to what extend the situation could be critical about '''metals pollution''', that why we found our project '''relevant'''. Thanks to him we have chosen to design a process able '''to be connected''' to other process occurring in the environment. Indeed we made us discover a '''wide range''' of already existing environmental processes that could be followed by our process. | As we didn't really know what was the actual situation in environment and what solutions are being developed to face metal pollution, we asked for advice to an [https://2016.igem.org/Team:Aix-Marseille/Integrated_Practices/Environment ecologist engineer]. He showed us to what extend the situation could be critical about '''metals pollution''', that why we found our project '''relevant'''. Thanks to him we have chosen to design a process able '''to be connected''' to other process occurring in the environment. Indeed we made us discover a '''wide range''' of already existing environmental processes that could be followed by our process. | ||
− | Thanks to all those people we had very interesting interactions which contributed to the final shape of our project | + | Thanks to all those people we had very interesting interactions which contributed to the final shape of our project! |
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