7th November 2009
Paul will present a keynote lecture on the Designs for Life project at the State of the Art 8, Conference, Faculty of Education, University of Strathclyde. Paul and Mhairi Towler will make a joint presentation followed by an afternoon workshop session.

28th October 2009
A reception will be held to mark the launch of the project book. This event will be held in the reception atrium of the Wellcome Trust Building, University of Dundee, 4.30 - 5.30pm. The event is an opportunity to distribute books to the scientist collaborators and reflect on the work as well as discuss possible future development. The publishers, Dundee University Press will be present to promote the book which is aavailable from DUP, Amazon and Borders Books, Dundee.

7th - 9th October 2009
The Designs for Life poject publication will be presented at the ESRC Genomics Network Conference, - 'Mapping the Genomic Era: Measurements and Meanings, at City Hall, Cardiff. http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/cesagen/events/esrcgenomicsnetworkconference2009

26th August 2009
The publication 'Collaborative Working in Higher Education: The Social Academy -Dr. Lorraine Walsh and Dr. Peter Kahn is released by Routledge. The book features a joint essay by Paul and Mhairi on the Designs for Life project - as a case study.

2nd - 20th June 2009
The Designs for Life project is exhibited at the Centre for Graphic Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania.
http://www.graphic.lt
Paul Mhairi and Scott install the exhibition and present gallery talks on the work as well as an interview for Lithuanian radio.

16th February - 14th March 2009
The print works produced in collaboration with Mhairi Towler are presented by Mhairi in an exhibition 'Celebrating the Acheivements of Women in STEM' titled 'Elusive Element'.

10th - 12th December 2008
Paul presents the Designs for Life project as part of a panel discussion at the PFGS Colloquium: Social and Bioscience - a critical collaboration? at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Lancaster.

27th September - 1st October 2008
A large selection of works from the project will be exhibited at the Human Genome Organisation Annual Conference, HGM2008, at the Hyderabad International Conference Centre, Hyderabad, India. Paul will discuss the work with delegates over the duration of the event as part of his 'Biografia' series and as Artist in residence.
http://hgm2008.hugo-international.org

16th - 22nd September 2008
A large selection of works from the project will be exhibited at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York as part of the Dynamic Organisation of Nuclear Function Conference. This work will be exhibited alongside work from another project Paul has undertaken in recent years at CSHL based around this conference and titled 'Pertaining to Origins'. A public discussion and preview will take place in the Racker Room, Blackford Hall on the 16th at 5pm. Paul will also be available to discuss the work with delegates throughout the duration of the event.
http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings/nucleus08.shtml

20th August 2008
Paul is invited to discuss his work and the Designs for Life project at the PFGS Colloquium: Social and Bioscience - a critical collaboration? at the University of Lancaster.

11th August 2008
Mhairi and Pauls draft joint essay on the Designs for Life project is accepted for inclusion in the forthcoming publication; Collaborative Working in Higher Education: The Social Academy. (Routledge).

9th July 2008
MSP Nicola Sturgeon opens the new Clinical Research Centre at Ninewells campus and is presented with a framed digital image of the project work in collaboration with Inke Nathke: 'Endocrine Kiting'

7th July 2008
Work begins on the design and production of the project book publication. This will include collaborators and group sections along with a series of reflective and observational essays.

16th June - 28th August 2008
Twelve framed prints, one from each collaboration, are exhbited in the new Queen Mother Building, 'The Street' University of Dundee. Initially as part of the Graduation Days events and then as the Summer Exhibition. The exhibition features as the backdrop for visiting delegations over the Summer.

30th May 2008
All project print collaborators are invited to Centrespace to review the work, discuss future potential and begin the signing of the Sixty Editions

21st - 23rd May 2008
The BioDundee Conference makes a high profile of the Designs for Life Project.

14th - 30th May 2008
Fifty six completed prints are hung in Centrespace Gallery, VRC, for the Visit by James Elkins and the Biodundee Conference.

17th May 2008
James Elkins works with Paul on the development and production of a screenprinted edition based on his project visit/lecture and his forthcoming Seminar series: http://www.stonesummertheoryinstitute.org/

16th May 2008
Professor James Elkins presents a lecture 'What is an Image' and participates in informal discussions with audience, staff and students on friday 16th May at DCA and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.

16th - 18th May 2008
Professor James Elkins will visit Dundee as part of the Designs for Life project. He will present a lecture and participate in a chaired discussion on friday 16th May at DCA.
Please see Symposium section for details.
www.jameselkins.com

13th - May 2008
A selection of the Designs for Life Exhibition will be presented at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, in September 2008. This will be shown in conjunction with another of Pauls projects; Pertaining to Origins' featuring as part of the conference; Dynamic Organisation of Nuclear Function. http://www.cshl.edu/

23rd April 2008
Paul and Mhairi meet with Dr Lorraine Walsh to discuss her invitation to include the Designs for Life project as a case study in a book she is currently working on for Routledge with Peter Kahn provisionally titled: Collaborative Working in Higher Education: The Social Academy. Paul and Mhairi will work collaboratively on the section.

14th April 2008
Professor Geoff Gadd begins his print collaboration at the VRC. The final collaboration in the project programme though further collaborations have evolved as part of the project and will take place over the coming weeks.

28th - March 2008
Dr. Laura Trinkle-Mulcahy gives a talk on the project; 'Designs for Life: Finding the Art in Science.' at City University of Hong Kong.
http://www.lamondlab.com

13th & 14th - March 2008
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Newcastle. (14th)
Glasgow Science Centre (13th)
As part of the National Festival of Social Science Paul and Dr Fiona Coyle (CESAGen/University of Cardiff) present a series of Collage workshops to local schools based on experience in the Designs for Life project and Pauls experience as Artist in Residence at CESAGen. The workshops form part of a broader programme delivered with Alastair Gentry (Genomics Forum Artist in Residence), Dr Jane Calvert (Innogen/University of Edinburgh), Bonnie Green (Egenis Researcher/University of Exeter) and Lara Crossland (ESRC Genomics Forum). The events are organised by Lara and Dr Steve Sturdy at the ESRC Genomics Forum.
http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/forum

9th - 29th - February 2008
Exhibition is open daily whilst printing continues as an integral element of the show and includes group visits and gallery discussions

9th - 16th - February 2008
Reviews and articles begin appear in the media, including:
BBC website; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/sci_nat_enl_1202758260/html/1.stm
Nature Reviews Genetics; http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v9/n2/index.html
The Courier
Press & Journal
Bio-dundee; www.biodundee.co.uk/index.asp?lm=9&nid=346&newsdate=022008
Contact; http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressreleases/contact.html

13th - February 2008
Up to 300 people fill the Bonar Hall for the performance by the Scottish Ensemble of the new composition by Alex Smoke. A piece commissioned specificaly to respond to the themes of the Project. The performance is recorded and will be available in an appropriate format in the near future.

13th - February 2008
Invited speakers deliver a series of 'perspectives on the convergence of arts practice and bioscience' to an audience of delegates from around the UK, participants from the project and 'local' artists, scientists and interested individuals.

12th - February 2008
Invited speakers and delegates begin to arrive in Dundee for the Project Symposium, travelling from as far afield as New York, Amsterdam and London.

9th - February 2008
The Designs for Life Exhibition opens at the Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts. See Exhibition section for opening times.

8th - February 2008
The Designs for Life Exhibition previews at the Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts. The preview is attended, reportedly, by the largest audience for such an event at the VRC.

5th - February 2008
Mhairi Towler presents an outline of the project and reflection on her own experience as a project collaborator to the Dundee Rotary Club.

4th - February 2008
The installation and testing of elements of the project begin in anticipation for the exhibition preview.

25th - January 2008
Participants from the 16-24 Adult Literacy Group visit the VRC for a practical collage workshop with DCC Creative Learning Team.

25th- January 2008
Poet Mark Thomson who worked initially with the 16-24 Adult Literacy Group returns to the DCA/VRC to record a reading of his poem 'Dinna mess wi meh jeans'. Written as part of the initial workshop and recently published by Luath Press in his collection of poems; 'Bard fae thi buildin site'.

24th - January 2008
The live webcams are set up in the VRC publishing facility and the WTB Laboratory. (Lamondlab - Division of gene regulation and expression) for 'screening' during the exhibition.

23rd - January 2008
An Exhibition of the project screenprints is confirmed at the Vilnius Grafikos Meno Centras (Vilnius Graphic Art Centre; www.graphic.lt) Lithuania. July 2009.

22nd - January 2008
Arwen Wilcock begins her collaboration to run as part of the Project Exhibition at the VRC.

21st - January 2008
The artwork 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams I' produced as part of the project in collaboration with Laura Trinkle-Mulcahy is featured on the cover of the February issue of Nature Reviews Genetics with an editorial on the project.(http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v9/n2/index.html)

16th - January 2008
The prints produced by Inke Nathke and Alan Prescott are exhibited in the atrium of the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee. This is the second in the series of previews.

14th - January 2008
The advertising begins for the project events scheduled for February.This includes large billboard posters around the City.

14th - 15th December 2007
Chroeographer Rachel Smith and film maker Sabine record the material in Centrespace for the production of the Dance commissioned by Dundee City Council to respond to the themes of the project.

14th - December 2007
The Mens Group of Dundee Healthy Living Initiative return to the VRC with the work they have been doing in response to the project and partake in a 'Performative' Meal with members of DCC creative learning team, artists Paul Harrison and Scott Hudson and scientist collaborator Alan Prescott. The meal and discussion is recorded live in Centrespace Gallery VRC.

12th - December 2007
David Martin meets with Paul at the VRC to discuss ideas and begin his collaboration.

11th - December 2007
Elizabeth Andrews, Director of the Scottish Ensemble visits the project at the VRC to discuss the potential for the performance in February. (www.scottishensemble.co.uk)

3rd - December 2007
Kate Storey begins her collaboration at the VRC.

19th - November 2007
Paul, Mhairi and Christine return to Claypotts Castle Primary School to preview the Primary 5s performance film choreographed by Rachel Smith and now edited by Claire McVinnie.

12th - November 2007
Angus Lamond begins his collaboration at the VRC.

9th - November 2007
The prints produced by Mhairi Towler and Ian Newton are exhibited in the atrium of the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, University of Dundee. This is the first in a series of previews. The works will be rotated every month.

18th - October 2007
Paul presents the project 'Designs for Life:a project as methodology' at the Kumu Arts Museum, Tallinn, Estonia as part of the 'Impact 5 International Print Conference. http://www.estograph.ee/

10th - October 2007
Judith Sleeman begins her collaboration at the VRC. The process is recorded by Design Ethnographer Xjinyi Xing.

26th - September 2007
Paul visits Judith Sleeman at her laboratory to begin sketches for her collaboration.

18th - September 2007
Alan Prescott negotiates further support for the project from Zeiss. http://www.zeiss.co.uk/

29th - August 2007
Paul presents an outline of the project as part of the 'Sci-art session' of 'Public Participation and Engagement in the Life Sciences' at the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society at Durham University.
One of the images produced with Laura is used as the cover image for the event and the project is featured in the PFGS newsletter. http://www.pfgs.org/.

20th - August 2007
Paul Andrews begins his collaboration at the VRC.

17th - August 2007
The Womens group of Dundee Healthy Living Initiative visit the VRC as an introduction to the project and as a starting point for their own production. They have proposed to attempt a large scale three dimensional textile response to the material which will be presented as part of the exhibition at the VRC.

16th - August 2007
Paul is invited to present the project at the Impact5 International Print Conference in Tallinn, Estonia. 17th - 20th October 2007. http://www.estograph.ee/

19th-20th July 2007
A series of Eye Tracking experiments are carried out on volunteers with Dr Ben Tatler in the University of Dundee, Psychology Department - Visual Perception Lab. This involved controlled viewing of a selection of the images produced to date. The recorded data will be processed in coming weeks.

17th - July 2007
Laura Trinkle-Mulcahy begins her collaboration at the VRC.

6th - July 2007
Paul is invited to give a presentation about the project at the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society at Durham University, 29th - 31st August 2007 http://www.pfgs.org/

29th - June 2007
Paul, Scott and Christine visit the McKinnon Centre to introduce the project to the Arts group who will be developing their own three dimensional responses in textile form.

26th - June 2007
Alex Smoke visits the project at the VRC to view progress, images and gather information towards his composition for the Scottish Ensemble.

8th - June 2007
The mens group of Dundee Healthy Living Initiative visit the VRC as an introduction to the project and as a starting point for their own production which they have proposed will include a performative meal to be filmed at the VRC.

30th - May 2007
Scottish Ensemble visit to discuss venue options for performance and decide upon the Bonar Hall, Perth Road.

21st - 24th May 2007
A selection of the works completed to date as part of the project are exhibited (Biografia V) at the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) annual meeting at the Palais des Congres de Montreal, Canada.

Paul is invited to present further works from the project (as part of Biografia VI) at the HUGO Human Genome Meeting, Hyderabad, India. 29th September - 2nd October 2008
www.hugo-international.org

27th April 2007
Alan Prescott: begins his collaboration at the Visual Research Centre.

20th April 2007
Claypotts Primary 5s visit the Visual Research Centre and perform their Final Dance peice at VRC Centrespace which is filmed for inclusion in the project exhibition.

2nd - 13th April 2007
Claypotts primary 5s opt to continue their project based around the themes of 'Designs for Life' through their Easter break with a Dance workshop with Dance Artists Rachel Smith and Tony Mills.

26th - 28th March 2007
A selection of works from the project are exhibited at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) conference; 'Genetics and Society: Retrospects and Prospects' at the Royal Society, London. One of the works ('Blue Dictys:vhelpa') produced with Ian Newton is used as the cover image for the conference abstract book. www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk/

22nd March 2007
Claypotts primary 5 present their images and performance at their school.

22nd February 2007
Inke Nathke: begins her collaboration at the Visual Research Centre.

20th February 2007
Mhairi and Paul visit Claypotts Primary School with the DCC Arts Education Team to introduce themselves as part of the Primary 5s project.

13th February 2007
DCC Arts Education Team begin work with Claypotts Primary School, Primary 5s.

19th January 2007
Ian Newton: begins his collaboration at the Visual Research Centre.

12th January 2007
First public open day in Visual Research Centre. 12noon - 5pm. All welcome.

7th December 2006
Mhairi Towler: begins the first collaboration at the Visual Research Centre.

November 2006
Designs for Life website launched.

Scottish Arts Council fund a commission organised by Dundee City Arts Council Music Development Officer Emily Dewhurst. The result is that Alex Smoke is commissioned to write a piece of new music in response to the work and themes of the Designs for Life project.

September 2006
Designs for Life begins with preparation for the series of collaborative productions.