Paul Goodrick, an international environmental artist, collaborates with the University of Dundee to organise and run a programme of linked art and science activities specifically focusing on identity and DNA. Two schools in Dundee are participating in the programme: Forthill Primary School and Blackness Primary School. He is working with science teacher Sue Parsons and artist and teacher, Angela Molloy. The Sensation Centre in Dundee hosts some of the activities.

The project is funded by Wellcome Trust under the Pulse Award Scheme, an initiative which aims to develop new ways of exploring science and engaging young people with complex and often emotive scientific issues. This new project follows a successful exploration of the theme by Paul and Sue as part of the Year of Science in 2002.

The project has the following elements in it:

The intensive involvement of schools for a week in Dundee during March 2006, and specific explorative and creative modules for them to work on during the run-up to the project week.

An appreciation and better understanding by children (and by the adults involved) of both art and science by merging these subjects, opening up new channels of exploration and creating artwork based on science.

Links to the National Curriculum.

Information on DNA and how it is used in identity, including the notion of who we are by making self-portraits based on DNA structures.

Continuing the DNA theme by using different artistic media, from drawing to sculpture, paint to natural materials, individual interpretation to group identity.

Fibonoacci mathematics, spirals in nature. Linking of maths and nature, translated into maths as a basis for pictorial art.

Artists' approaches to self-portrait painting, and how we can find new, unusual ways to portray ourselves and others.

Forensic identity and how we might find the identities of people who lived in the past.

Activities at different locations - the classrooms, and the Sensation Centre.

All the children and adults involved sharing ideas and what they have learned.

The presentation of the whole project in a web site, including links to the National Curriculum and background information. This web site will also be a location for children to post their work and ideas during the project.

The creation of a teacher's pack for an In Service Training (INSET) module for teachers, which can also be used as a learning model for anyone to access, also to be on this web site.

A final exhibition of all the work done by the schools at the Sensation Centre, Dundee, on 10 March 2006.