One Cell At A Time

One Cell At A Time is an ambitious programme of public engagement activities with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative. During 2020 and 2021, the programme has brought together arts and communities, patients and researchers to explore the biological and cellular make-up of the human body.

The programme has aimed to show how Human Cell Atlas research could impact how we think about the human body and identify areas where HCA could meet a need, and also aspired to deepen the trust that the public has in scientific research.

This engagement has resulted in a range of artworks that respond to the scientific research of the Human Cell Atlas and the communities that enable that work to happen. These artworks are featured in the virtual One Cell At A Time exhibition.

The One Cell At A Time art and science exhibition invites people to explore our growing understanding of the trillions of cells that make up the human body, and the role we play in pioneering scientific discovery.

The exhibition features participatory artworks, small-run publications which fuse art, photography and creative writing (‘zines) and creative learning projects.

These works have been created by visual and digital artists, inventors, designers, poets and dancers who have collaborated virtually with members of the HCA, local communities and schoolchildren across the United Kingdom. They have creatively explored the science of the HCA initiative, as well as public attitudes towards body, tissue and data donation for research.

The One Cell At A Time public engagement project has been developed with the support of the Wellcome Genome Campus Public Engagement (WGC PE) team. It is funded by a Research Enrichment Grant from Wellcome Trust (ref: 218597/Z/19/Z).

 

Past Events

November 25th 2020 Human Cell Atlas: One Cell At A Time ArtSci Exchange, Virtual

December 2nd 2020 Human Cell Atlas: ArtSci SalonsVirtual

January 8th 2021 Teacher CPD and School Challenge National Launch, Virtual

January 13th 2021 Human Cell Atlas Member Lunchtime SeminarVirtual

February 9th 2021 HCA Member Lunchtime Post Pack Design Session, Virtual

February 25th 2021 Meet Human Cell Atlas Members – Q&A, Virtual

March 16th 2021 HCA Patterns and Matching: A way of doing things, Virtual

April 21st 2021 Cellular Biology 2120 – A Luncheon Time Travel with Baum & Leahy, Virtual

April 22nd 2021 Datarama – Oxford, Virtual

April 28th 2021 Writing Our Cells/Writing Ourselves, Virtual

April 29th 2021 Datarama – Cambridge, Virtual

May 5th 2021 Datarama – London, Virtual

May 20th 2021 Datarama – Newcastle Upon Tyne, Virtual

June 9th 2021 ArtSci Salon III: Donating Ourselves/Our cells, Virtual

June 9th – 18th 2021 One Cell At A Time – Maker Jam, Virtual

June 11th 2021 From Donor to Data – Maker Jam Talks, Newcastle University, Virtual

June 12th 2021 Embodying, Performing, Sensing and Speculative Normality: with the Human Cell Atlas, Virtual

June 16th 2021 ArtSci Salon IV: From Donor to Open Data, Virtual

October 28th 2021 Public preview of the One Cell At A Time online exhibition, Virtual

October 29th 2021 Sensory Cellumonials by Baum & Leahy: First Portal Opening: TASTE, Copleston Centre, Peckham

October 30th 2021 Ways of Doing Things by Anna Macdonald: Live Online Performances, Virtual

October 30th 2021 Live Premiere of Call of the Silent Cell by boredomresearch, 95 Gloucester Green, Oxford

October 31st 2021 Ways of Doing Things by Anna Macdonald: Live Online Performances, Virtual

November 2nd 2021 Ways of Doing Things by Anna Macdonald: Live Online Performances, Virtual

November 2nd 2021 Sensory Cellumonials by Baum & Leahy: Last Portal Opening: VISION, Virtual

November 3rd 2021 Ways of Doing Things by Anna Macdonald: Live Online Performances, Virtual

November 21st 2021 Donate Yourself Guided Tour and Workshop with Stacey Pitsillides, Byker Farm, Ouseburn Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

One Cell At A Time in the Media

Contact Us

Please reach out to us at pe@humancellatlas.org if you have any enquiries.

Partners:
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK
University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
Newcastle University, Newcastle UK
King’s College London, UK
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Royal College of Art
Newcastle Centre for Literary Arts
The Poetry Society