For the third time, Guerilla Science will bring modern scientific research to the place you least expect it: Shangri La, the “naughty corner” of Glastonbury festival. The unofficial after hours area of the festival – filled with a favela-like shanty town of art installations, stages, venues and theatres – the shambolic temporary town is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Three years ago GS planted a glowing white cute, the Decontamination Chamber into the middle of it, filled with psychiatrists and microbiologists. Last year, we built a giant maze and filled it with rodent scientists in Lab Rats. And this year? We’re building an upscale department store of sexual enhancements: Nipples. Come adorn yourself in a merkin, browse the Great Wall of Vagina, and donate your sexual history to our growing data archive.
How many science communicators would bring a giant wall of vulva casts into the middle of the anarchic zone of debauchery and revelry at Britain’s largest festival? Just one.
Let’s hope it’s not muddy and I don’t go insane with stress like 2011.