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Photonics garden makes light work of understanding science

The University has joined with Elks-Smith Landscape and Garden Design to create a spectacular ‘Garden of Light’ for the RHS Tatton Flower Show in Cheshire (22-26 July) in celebration of the United Nations International Year of Light.

'Garden of Light' created for the RHS Tatton Flower Show
‘Garden of Light’ created for the RHS Tatton Flower Show

News update – The garden has won a gold award in the Year of Light Garden category in recognition of the high-standard of the garden brief, design and build.

The Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) and Physics and Astronomy have collaborated with BALI Design Excellence award-winning garden designer Helen Elks-Smith to design a garden that takes visitors on a journey into the world of light-based technology, known as photonics and its foremost communications channel, fibre optics.

Read the full press release here. 

 
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