ARU Peterborough principal Ross Renton and vice-principal Lucy Jones talks about the opening of the university's new Living Lab
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00:00The Living Lab is going to be a phenomenal resource for this city. We are so proud to
00:06have it ready on time and the facilities are such that it really does open up science and
00:12engineering at all levels here in Peterborough. And we're able to invite people in this Saturday
00:19for our Community Day where you'll get to go into our engineering labs, into our microbiology
00:24lab, look at the fantastic new Living Lab and get hands on and see why higher education,
00:29at a university here in Peterborough, is transformative for everyone.
00:33So this is our wonderful new Living Lab space and it's a multifunctional space that will
00:41allow us to run all sorts of really engaging events. The first of these is going to be
00:46on Saturday, it's our Community Day, when we have MavScience delivering their activities
00:51in this space. It's a space that's been designed with a waterproof floor, it can be
00:56messy, it can be fun, we can have chemicals and fire and lights and action. We'll be
01:02able to use it one day as an engineering space, maybe creating drones or small aeroplanes
01:08that children will be able to programme and then by the next day we can change it around
01:11and it can be a crime scene activity. It also allows us to run exhibitions, to run events
01:17and to run theatre, live action type opportunities for people to get really engaged in what's
01:24going on in this space.