Aachen’s new “Science Pop-Up Space” reaches for the stars – and brings them directly to Dahmengraben.

If you are out window shopping in downtown Aachen, you may stumble across a shop window in Dahmengraben showing spectacular images from the world of science. To be specific, the window shows a video presentation – lasting a full to hours – featuring, for example, Saturn’s impressive ice moon Enceladus, on which scientists believe there may be life. Or you can watch an “IceMole” at work… If you want to know what that looks like, you should drop by and take in the “Technology Window”.
The Technology Window belongs to a shop that is transformed for the whole of April into a “Science Pop-Up Space” where scientists are inviting the public to talks on three separate evenings:

13th April 2018, 7pm
“All plastic – or is it?
Sustainable use of synthetic materials”
Prof. Dr. Christian Hopmann of the RWTH’s Institute of Plastics Processing in Industry and the Skilled Crafts (IKV)

20th April 2018, 7pm
“Are we alone? – The search for extraterrestrial life”
Prof. Dr. Bernd Dachwald of the FH Aachen

26th April 2018, 7pm
“For a better life – interactive materials of the future”
Dr. Alexander Kühne and Dr. Janine Hillmer of the Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials (DWI)
Admission free!
Dahmengraben 17, 52062 Aachen

A joint project of the universities and the Science Office of the City of Aachen
Is there life on Enceladus, Saturn’s ice moon? Scientists think there may be.

A joint project of the universities and the Science Office of the City of Aachen