Science (as) Culture: The 1000-year view & how to get there
Scientists make discoveries, engineers design new technologies, artists create multimedia installations contemplating how the world works, corporations develop and distribute new products, policymakers, researchers, creatives, and grassroots activists alike attempt to create positive impacts, while others instead either choose to remain a passive observer or feel their voice goes unheard. Ideally, all of these actors could work together at all stages of scientific and technological development to ensure the best outcomes for society as a whole. However, integrating these often disparate and sometimes competing fields—labs, creative spaces, corporations, universities, funding organizations, movements, governing bodies, and communities—is challenging. Ligo Project is working to dissolve those boundaries and to tackle this challenge with creativity.
Join us at the table for part 3 of an intimate yet challenging 3-part multidisciplinary exchange of ideas focused on integration of science and society and how to achieve it that gives everyone the opportunity to be heard and aims to change how we as a society think about, learn about, and talk about art, science and technology.
Science (as) Culture - The 1000-year view & how to get there
with Special Guests:
Harvey Seifter - Founder & Director, Art of Science Learning, and Principal Investigator of its two National Science Foundation grants. Harvey is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts‐based learning.
Pamela Smith - Seth Low Professor of History, Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University; specializes in early modern European history and the history of science; current research focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.
Matthew Stanley - Associate Professor History & Philosophy of Science, NYU Gallatin; is interested in the connections between science and the wider culture. Current projects include a history of scientific predictions of the end of the world and he is part of a nationwide National Science Foundation-funded effort to use the humanities to improve science education in the college classroom.
Mary Suk - a contributive force in the New York art community through her work as a choreographer, arts educator, and modern dancer. Her dances have been performed at Joyce SoHo, Merce Cunningham Studio, Aaron Davis Hall, Teachers College, Bates Summer Dance Festival and Soundance Studio.
David Thompson - co-founder, Connect with STEM; previously Director of Organizational Engagement in the pharmaceutical industry (Boehringer Ingelheim), David has explored a variety of problems spanning science across academia and industry.
How it Works:
Science (as) Culture will use a format inspired by Lois Weaver’s conversation as performance project ‘The Long Table’, which is informal, participatory & nonhierarchical. Special guests are invited to ‘seed’ the conversation but the “audience” is invited to take a seat at the table and join in. At all points in this discussion, it will be important not to take “progress” as self evident, and to ask why a particular idea or research practice makes sense. The rules of engagement will be such that free thought and open exchange are highly encouraged at all times – everyone’s voice is heard.
Goals:
The intended outcome of the Science (as) Culture Discussion Series will be to create a “Call to action” summary document toward taking positive steps in our community to better achieve the integration of science & society. We will use the call to action summary as a platform for the following: a discussion/white paper, blog and/or other article(s) in order to more broadly distribute the ideas exchanged in our discussions as well as to draft letters to the editors of relevant newspapers and other media sources; to distribute ideas & needs to other nonprofits with relevant missions as a means to coalesce a wider community around positive action toward the integration of science and society in our community; and to seed content and context for additional public town hall style discussions and events that will work toward new and creative contexts for the integration of science and society.
Event Schedule:
Doors: 30 min prior
Discussion: 90 min
Mingling afterwards: The Emerson, 561 Myrtle Ave.
Scientists make discoveries, engineers design new technologies, artists create multimedia installations contemplating how the world works, corporations develop and distribute new products, policymakers, researchers, creatives, and grassroots activists alike attempt to create positive impacts, while others instead either choose to remain a passive observer or feel their voice goes unheard. Ideally, all of these actors could work together at all stages of scientific and technological development to ensure the best outcomes for society as a whole. However, integrating these often disparate and sometimes competing fields—labs, creative spaces, corporations, universities, funding organizations, movements, governing bodies, and communities—is challenging. Ligo Project is working to dissolve those boundaries and to tackle this challenge with creativity.
Join us at the table for part 3 of an intimate yet challenging 3-part multidisciplinary exchange of ideas focused on integration of science and society and how to achieve it that gives everyone the opportunity to be heard and aims to change how we as a society think about, learn about, and talk about art, science and technology.
Science (as) Culture - The 1000-year view & how to get there
with Special Guests:
Harvey Seifter - Founder & Director, Art of Science Learning, and Principal Investigator of its two National Science Foundation grants. Harvey is one of the world’s leading authorities on organizational creativity and arts‐based learning.
Pamela Smith - Seth Low Professor of History, Director of the Center for Science and Society, Columbia University; specializes in early modern European history and the history of science; current research focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.
Matthew Stanley - Associate Professor History & Philosophy of Science, NYU Gallatin; is interested in the connections between science and the wider culture. Current projects include a history of scientific predictions of the end of the world and he is part of a nationwide National Science Foundation-funded effort to use the humanities to improve science education in the college classroom.
Mary Suk - a contributive force in the New York art community through her work as a choreographer, arts educator, and modern dancer. Her dances have been performed at Joyce SoHo, Merce Cunningham Studio, Aaron Davis Hall, Teachers College, Bates Summer Dance Festival and Soundance Studio.
David Thompson - co-founder, Connect with STEM; previously Director of Organizational Engagement in the pharmaceutical industry (Boehringer Ingelheim), David has explored a variety of problems spanning science across academia and industry.
How it Works:
Science (as) Culture will use a format inspired by Lois Weaver’s conversation as performance project ‘The Long Table’, which is informal, participatory & nonhierarchical. Special guests are invited to ‘seed’ the conversation but the “audience” is invited to take a seat at the table and join in. At all points in this discussion, it will be important not to take “progress” as self evident, and to ask why a particular idea or research practice makes sense. The rules of engagement will be such that free thought and open exchange are highly encouraged at all times – everyone’s voice is heard.
Goals:
The intended outcome of the Science (as) Culture Discussion Series will be to create a “Call to action” summary document toward taking positive steps in our community to better achieve the integration of science & society. We will use the call to action summary as a platform for the following: a discussion/white paper, blog and/or other article(s) in order to more broadly distribute the ideas exchanged in our discussions as well as to draft letters to the editors of relevant newspapers and other media sources; to distribute ideas & needs to other nonprofits with relevant missions as a means to coalesce a wider community around positive action toward the integration of science and society in our community; and to seed content and context for additional public town hall style discussions and events that will work toward new and creative contexts for the integration of science and society.
Event Schedule:
Doors: 30 min prior
Discussion: 90 min
Mingling afterwards: The Emerson, 561 Myrtle Ave.