Science in Pictures
Every picture tells a story, what's yours?
About this project
Science in Pictures is a community sourced project in collaboration with AstraZeneca as it celebrates science with a unique 26 square metre mosaic art installation, inspired by and composed of over 1,000 original images with contributions from local schools and events with AstraZeneca’s STEM partners. The STEM Community art project (Science in Pictures) was unveiled at the Discovery Centre (DISC), the UK’s largest Laboratory. Gigapixels are huge photographic images. They can be viewed on-screen in an interactive format, or as very large format prints with an incredible amount of detail.
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The mosaic is also discoverable online as a staggering interactive 1654-megapixel artwork. Some of the STEM art is highlighted and clickable, meaning you can read, learn and delve into the stories behind STEM and fact-finding fun for all ages. Gigapixels are huge photographic images. They can be viewed on-screen in an interactive format, or as very large format prints with an incredible amount of detail. A gigapixel image contains one billion pixels, which is 1,000 times the size of a one-megapixel image, or equivalent to 1,000 megapixels.
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Cambridge Independent | 2023
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As a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company, we are committed to using our reach, scale and expertise to effect real change in our communities and societies. We believe providing students with access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) engagement opportunities will inspire and motivate the next generation to solve tomorrow’s challenges.
To strive to make STEM accessible to all worldwide, our global programme, STEM at AstraZeneca, supports inclusive and equitable engagement initiatives that encourage students to explore their interests and introduce them to potential career paths in STEM.
“Inspiration in science drives breakthroughs in medicine research and we are delighted our new laboratories, which are state of the art, will be filled with works of art. Creativity is critical to innovative thinking and making crucial connections and these pieces will help lift up our ideas, approaches and analysis. As the largest company in the UK and a vital part of the country’s life sciences ecosystem, AstraZeneca is committed to investing in the culture, community and economy in Cambridge to support science today and foster the scientists of the future.”
Mene Pangalos | Executive Vice President, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca
“This has been a rewarding and positive collaboration that has flourished over a long period of interdisciplinary conversations and subsequent development. It has been a privilege to work alongside a team of scientists with such dedication to the participants and open minds to the artistic outcome, where experimentation is the nature of creativity itself, and where it is a necessity to trust in the process. We worked for many months and days collecting and processing all the inspirational imagery to make an artwork where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Congratulations to every pupil and participant who has an image and story embedded in this artwork, a true work of joint authorship and innovation.”
Helen Marshall | Artist | The People’s Picture
“With Special Thanks to: Trumpington Park Primary School, Steeple Bumpstead Primary School, St Faith’s, Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School, RA Butler Academy, Queen Emma Primary School, Queen Edith Primary School, Over Primary School, Orchard Park Community Primary School, Morley Memorial Primary SchoolMilton Road Primary School, Isleham Church of England Primary School, Girton Glebe Primary School, The Galfrid School, Fawcett Primary School, Cambridge Science Centre, Cambridgeshire County Day, Cambridge United Foundation, Big Biology Day, DISC Family Fun Day”
Science in Pictures | Astra Zeneca