Ligo Project Panel on Environment & Climate Change
Sunday, September 28th, 2014
11:00am
c.hill, 2013, metrocard tapestry inspired by Dr. Steve Franks’ research (Fordham University, plant ecology and ecological genetics), exhibited at Ligo Project’s Art of Science – Gallery Night
Ligo Project is a movement. A movement to connect and apply cutting edge scientific discoveries to real world problems and to make this happen more rapidly and less expensively, so that scientific innovations bear an even broader impact on the general public– improving quality of life in general and especially for those living with disease. Ligo Project’s mission is to increase the rate at which scientific innovations are being applied to real world problems, creating game changing start-ups that do good at the same time! Acting as a translational catalyst for your innovations, the Ligo Project goal is to foster and promote more rapid and inexpensive development of scientific innovations that will positively impact global unmet needs and improve quality of life.
Ligo Project aims to make science accessible to the public through programs such as the Art of Science, a 6-month artist-in residence program that allows artists the opportunity to interact with scientists, learn about research and, from these interactions, create a piece of science inspired art. Using the universal language of art as a vehicle to promote science innovation and explore fundamental questions that interest and affect us all, Art of Science leverages this power as a unique & powerful marketing tool for opportunities in and centered around science & scientific innovations.
The panel on Environment & Climate Change will discuss factors that detrimentally effect the environment, causes of climate change, evidence for this, and importantly the best path forward and policies to alleviate some of these detrimental effects.
Panel members will include: Jonathan Bauch (sculptor, curator of Omens of Climate Change at Westbeth Gallery), Larry Brown (painter, adjunct professor at Cooper Union), Karen Holmberg (archaeologist, volcano fetishist, writer, visiting scholar in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU), Patrick Kinney (environmental health scientist, director of the Columbia University Climate and Health Program), Bhawani Venkataraman (environmental chemist, associate professor of interdisciplinary science at The New School)
