Review of recent Future Human Symposium in SciArt in America

Review of our recent Future Human Symposium at GV art gallery, by Liane Fredericks, in SciArt in America

http://www.sciartinamerica.com/blog/broad-vision-londons-interdisciplinary-sci-art-elective

To step into a program like Broad Vision, students have to accept that it might not be the most direct route to PhD funding. They need to be prepared to work within an emergent and “chaordic” learning process. In return, Broad Vision provides an unpatronizing mentored space for students to go beyond their disciplinary silos.”

 

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Free Future Human events programme: workshops, demos, talks

Join us this week and next at GV art gallery for a full and exciting events programme to complement the Future Human exhibition. See Events for full info.

Future Human plays with the possible, the probable and the implausible through an exhibition of interdisciplinary artworks, experiments and speculative designs, with an accompanying programme of workshops, demonstrations and talks.

Art/Science Afterschool Club
18-20 June, 3.30-5.30pm. Free workshops for 11-16 year olds.
Join the Broad Vision team to creatively explore the potential future of our seas, cities, and bodies. All materials provided.
Book HERE.

Future Bodies (Decellularisation)
Saturday 21 June, 1-5pm (adults and 11+)
Decellularisation is a process where organs are stripped back leaving only the structure, which could potentially be used as a scaffold for transplant organs. Join London DIY Biohack group ‘The Kitchen’, Dr Mark Clements and Broad Vision students, to learn how artists and scientists are using this new technique, observe a live decellularisation of a heart, and have a go at making artwork with strips of decellularised bacon, dyes and glitter. Let your imagination run wild with a totally new art medium and learn about this amazing biotechnology technique. Book HERE.

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
An evening with Lewis Dartnell, Ele Carpenter & Carl Gombrich
19 June, 7-9pm (drinks from 6.30pm)
If the world as we know it ended and the survivors had to start again, how could we salvage, sustain and reboot civilisation? Lewis Dartnell, author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, will take us on a journey of discovery: a chance for us to reconnect with the basic skills and knowledge that our lives and world depend upon.
Book HERE.

Future Human: Symposium
Thursday 26 June, 6-9pm
An evening of interdisciplinary speculations, presentations and discussions about what our futures might hold… brought to you by the Broad Vision team of artists and scientists, students and lecturers.
Book HERE.

 

Broad Vision ‘Future Human’ at GV art gallery, June 2014

The University of Westminster’s Broad Vision project presents an exhibition of imagined futures and possible human evolutions. Integrating art and science, Future Human plays with the possible, the probable and the implausible through a collection of interdisciplinary artworks, experiments and speculative designs – the result of what happens when a group of curious and questioning students ask ‘What if…?’

Broad Vision Future Human

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