Sat January 6, 2018
CIIS MFA program presents: Engaging the Urban Mind Panel Discussion
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Presented by the CIIS MFA Program:
ENGAGING THE URBAN MIND:
HOW ART, SCIENCE & EDUCATION CAN PLAY A ROLE IN RESILIENCE BUILDING
January 6, 2018
5:15pm - 6:15pm
1453 Mission Street,
Desai Matta Lobby Gallery
San Francisco, CA 94103
Free!The first event in a new interdisciplinary series of events dedicated to supporting community resilience, “Engaging the Urban Mind” brings together key artists, scientists and scholars to discuss the future of life in cities. Panel presentations and subsequent discussions will tackle a spectrum of issues from facilitating public understanding of climate change and environmental sustainability in cities to exploring the intersections between architectural design and somatic psychology, from prompting civic engagement with social stereotyping to investigating the potential cross-fertilization between cognitive science and public art installations.PANELISTS:
SHAWN LANI: Shawn Lani is Founding Director of the Exploratorium’s Studio for Public Spaces, an initiative dedicated to introducing informal, inquiry-based learning into the public realm ;Working closely with city agencies and community groups, SPS has created public spaces that enable a formative culture, where new ideas, strategies, and visions emerge from the people that flow through them. Lani’s personal artworks include public space installations and commissioned individual pieces. He notes “My personal works are profoundly influenced by the vast landscapes of Eastern Nevada where I maintain a studio, a 1928 movie theater, and a plot of land fertile with pinion pine and dreams.”Moderator:
PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM:Poet, playwright, and cognitive scientist, Sundaralingam has held cognitive science research posts at MIT and UCLA, while her poetry has been published in over 20 journals and translated into 5 languages. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow (in Creativity & Neuroscience 2015; in "Sustainability & the Arts" in 2016), and was the 2017 Urban Fellow at the Exploratorium. A recent science advisor to the Ministry of Art, Culture, & Heritage, for the government of the Republic of Ireland, Sundaralingam is presently Principal Advisor on Human Potential at the United Nations Museum, where she leads the R&D unit. Pireeni teaches in the MFA program in Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry at CIIS.3rd panelist to be announced. Stay tuned!
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ENGAGING THE URBAN MIND:
HOW ART, SCIENCE & EDUCATION CAN PLAY A ROLE IN RESILIENCE BUILDING
January 6, 2018
5:15pm - 6:15pm
1453 Mission Street,
Desai Matta Lobby Gallery
San Francisco, CA 94103
Free!The first event in a new interdisciplinary series of events dedicated to supporting community resilience, “Engaging the Urban Mind” brings together key artists, scientists and scholars to discuss the future of life in cities. Panel presentations and subsequent discussions will tackle a spectrum of issues from facilitating public understanding of climate change and environmental sustainability in cities to exploring the intersections between architectural design and somatic psychology, from prompting civic engagement with social stereotyping to investigating the potential cross-fertilization between cognitive science and public art installations.PANELISTS:
SHAWN LANI: Shawn Lani is Founding Director of the Exploratorium’s Studio for Public Spaces, an initiative dedicated to introducing informal, inquiry-based learning into the public realm ;Working closely with city agencies and community groups, SPS has created public spaces that enable a formative culture, where new ideas, strategies, and visions emerge from the people that flow through them. Lani’s personal artworks include public space installations and commissioned individual pieces. He notes “My personal works are profoundly influenced by the vast landscapes of Eastern Nevada where I maintain a studio, a 1928 movie theater, and a plot of land fertile with pinion pine and dreams.”Moderator:
PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM:Poet, playwright, and cognitive scientist, Sundaralingam has held cognitive science research posts at MIT and UCLA, while her poetry has been published in over 20 journals and translated into 5 languages. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow (in Creativity & Neuroscience 2015; in "Sustainability & the Arts" in 2016), and was the 2017 Urban Fellow at the Exploratorium. A recent science advisor to the Ministry of Art, Culture, & Heritage, for the government of the Republic of Ireland, Sundaralingam is presently Principal Advisor on Human Potential at the United Nations Museum, where she leads the R&D unit. Pireeni teaches in the MFA program in Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry at CIIS.3rd panelist to be announced. Stay tuned!
Presented by the CIIS MFA Program:
ENGAGING THE URBAN MIND:
HOW ART, SCIENCE & EDUCATION CAN PLAY A ROLE IN RESILIENCE BUILDING
January 6, 2018
5:15pm - 6:15pm
1453 Mission Street,
Desai Matta Lobby Gallery
San Francisco, CA 94103
Free!The first event in a new interdisciplinary series of events dedicated to supporting community resilience, “Engaging the Urban Mind” brings together key artists, scientists and scholars to discuss the future of life in cities. Panel presentations and subsequent discussions will tackle a spectrum of issues from facilitating public understanding of climate change and environmental sustainability in cities to exploring the intersections between architectural design and somatic psychology, from prompting civic engagement with social stereotyping to investigating the potential cross-fertilization between cognitive science and public art installations.PANELISTS:
SHAWN LANI: Shawn Lani is Founding Director of the Exploratorium’s Studio for Public Spaces, an initiative dedicated to introducing informal, inquiry-based learning into the public realm ;Working closely with city agencies and community groups, SPS has created public spaces that enable a formative culture, where new ideas, strategies, and visions emerge from the people that flow through them. Lani’s personal artworks include public space installations and commissioned individual pieces. He notes “My personal works are profoundly influenced by the vast landscapes of Eastern Nevada where I maintain a studio, a 1928 movie theater, and a plot of land fertile with pinion pine and dreams.”Moderator:
PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM:Poet, playwright, and cognitive scientist, Sundaralingam has held cognitive science research posts at MIT and UCLA, while her poetry has been published in over 20 journals and translated into 5 languages. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow (in Creativity & Neuroscience 2015; in "Sustainability & the Arts" in 2016), and was the 2017 Urban Fellow at the Exploratorium. A recent science advisor to the Ministry of Art, Culture, & Heritage, for the government of the Republic of Ireland, Sundaralingam is presently Principal Advisor on Human Potential at the United Nations Museum, where she leads the R&D unit. Pireeni teaches in the MFA program in Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry at CIIS.3rd panelist to be announced. Stay tuned!
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ENGAGING THE URBAN MIND:
HOW ART, SCIENCE & EDUCATION CAN PLAY A ROLE IN RESILIENCE BUILDING
January 6, 2018
5:15pm - 6:15pm
1453 Mission Street,
Desai Matta Lobby Gallery
San Francisco, CA 94103
Free!The first event in a new interdisciplinary series of events dedicated to supporting community resilience, “Engaging the Urban Mind” brings together key artists, scientists and scholars to discuss the future of life in cities. Panel presentations and subsequent discussions will tackle a spectrum of issues from facilitating public understanding of climate change and environmental sustainability in cities to exploring the intersections between architectural design and somatic psychology, from prompting civic engagement with social stereotyping to investigating the potential cross-fertilization between cognitive science and public art installations.PANELISTS:
SHAWN LANI: Shawn Lani is Founding Director of the Exploratorium’s Studio for Public Spaces, an initiative dedicated to introducing informal, inquiry-based learning into the public realm ;Working closely with city agencies and community groups, SPS has created public spaces that enable a formative culture, where new ideas, strategies, and visions emerge from the people that flow through them. Lani’s personal artworks include public space installations and commissioned individual pieces. He notes “My personal works are profoundly influenced by the vast landscapes of Eastern Nevada where I maintain a studio, a 1928 movie theater, and a plot of land fertile with pinion pine and dreams.”Moderator:
PIREENI SUNDARALINGAM:Poet, playwright, and cognitive scientist, Sundaralingam has held cognitive science research posts at MIT and UCLA, while her poetry has been published in over 20 journals and translated into 5 languages. She is a Salzburg Global Fellow (in Creativity & Neuroscience 2015; in "Sustainability & the Arts" in 2016), and was the 2017 Urban Fellow at the Exploratorium. A recent science advisor to the Ministry of Art, Culture, & Heritage, for the government of the Republic of Ireland, Sundaralingam is presently Principal Advisor on Human Potential at the United Nations Museum, where she leads the R&D unit. Pireeni teaches in the MFA program in Writing, Consciousness and Creative Inquiry at CIIS.3rd panelist to be announced. Stay tuned!
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