👩🏼🔬🎭🔭🎨🧬💡This past weekend’s “Science and Sensibility” conference filled us with a sense of awe and gratitude, as we witnessed an extraordinary convergence of ideas, disciplines, and perspectives that have challenged and expanded our understanding of both science and art.
We saw how the boundaries between disciplines are not walls, but bridges. We learned that the rigor of scientific method and the intuition of artistic sensibility are not opposing forces, but complementary tools in our quest to understand and express the complexities of our world.
We were struck by the spirit of collaboration and openness that permeated every session. We saw scientists embrace artistic methodologies and artists engage with scientific concepts, all in service of pushing the boundaries of what we know and how we know it.
In a world facing unprecedented challenges – from climate change to global health crises – we need this integration of science and sensibility more than ever. We need the precision of scientific inquiry and the empathy of artistic expression. We need data and stories, facts and metaphors, graphs and poems. We need
#transdisciplinarity and social justice. So let us continue to break down silos, foster collaborations across disciplines, and approach our work with both scientific rigor, artistic sensibility, and most of all, humaneness.
We also had the honour not only to feature Dr.
@PatriciaLeavy as our keynote speaker, but also to announce our new LABRC award in her name!! Dr. Leavy’s groundbreaking work blending scholarship with art through writing left all the arts-based researchers onboard marveling at the seamless connections and hope she offers creative scholars!
Other highlight guests include: poet @maria_sophia_c, whose unmatched poetic inquiry blends autoethnography with psychology and activism; acclaimed sci-fi novelist
@JustinaRobson whose work is an arts-based research par excellence, featuring high end research collabs with scientists; and psychology researcher Charles Levett who gave a brilliant talk on the relationship between oxytocin and the art of meditation for wellbeing.
We look forward to seeing all these brilliant minds with us again next year!@TheForthBelle
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