Back for the future: the escape room!
Come and play our sustainability-themed virtual escape room run over Zoom! Up to 6 players will control a live actor and solve the puzzles within the time limit. Audience members can join in via the chat.
The year is 2050 and Earth has been devastated by the climate crisis. It’s too late to save the planet now, the only solution is to go back in time and set humanity on the right course. Your colleague will travel to the year 2021 and finish off the vital research needed for a green, sustainable Ireland. Work as a team and help them solve the puzzles across space and time before there's no future for them to go back to!
This escape room was a joint project between BiOrbic Research Centre and Green House NGO. It was co-funded by European Research Night events, Science in the City and START and you can find out more in our session on 10 June at 12.30.
Facilitator
Public Engagement, Education and Communications Manager
Session speakers
Public Engagement, Education and Communications Manager
Amanda is the creator of the Back for the Future escape room, from concept and narrative, to puzzle design and technical logistics. She has developed and evaluated several STEM escape rooms over the past few years as part of public engagement programmes. Amanda will provide technical support during the escape room demonstration and will explain the behind-the-scenes of how it was put together. She will then support participants in developing their own escape room ideas.
Carl (also known as Ace) is the actor for the Back for the Future escape room and an established trainer in improvisation theatre. Since the pandemic, he has been delivering improv sessions for students online for ImpAct Improv in Dublin and is well versed in translating performance arts into a digital setting. He will be demonstrating the room live, interacting with players. After the demonstration Carl will bring his perspective as an actor and artist to our Q and A and to the workshopping session.
Ylenia is the actor for the Maltese edition of the Back for the Future escape room, hosted at the Science in the City festival last year. She has a wealth of experience both within theatre in general and theatrical escape rooms in particular, having acted in three different escape rooms in 2017, 2018 and 2020. She has even delivered escape rooms in Italian! She will take on the role as one of our players in the demonstration and will bring her niche experience as an actor to the Q and A and workshopping sessions.
Festival co-ordinator and Science Communication Practitioner and Researcher
Edward is the manager of Science in the City, Malta’s national science and arts festival and has supported theatrical escape rooms in his public engagement programmes since 2017. He is an expert in bringing creatives and scientists together for successful, ‘STEAM’-based events and exhibits that attract a broad range of audiences. He will act as one of our players during the demonstration and will bring his experience of securing funding and managing STEAM events to the Q and A and workshopping sessions.
