Jon Farrow

I’ve had the privilege of working on some wacky and wonderful projects that stretch the definition of traditional “communications” activities.

Operation HI TIM

When Tim Peake went to space as the first British astronaut on the ISS, we decided to write a message that he could see from the cupola of the space station if he looked down at his old high school.

I described the experience in a blog for the Ri.

Museums

For five months in 2016, I worked on the Contemporary Science gallery at the Science Museum, finding a displaying a rotating cast of the latest and greatest technologies that could fit in a 1m³ box. Among my favourites were a handheld DNA sequencer, a concussion-prevention collar, a robotic farming crab, and artificial skin.

Tours

Before I started down the path of science communication, I worked three summers as a tour guide at the federal parliament, the Ontario parliament, and then a small local history museum. As a result, I’m strangely good at learning the ins and outs of a building and then showing people around it, narrating the history and interesting anecdotes along the way.