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Emily SHUCKBURGH (UK)
Scientist in Residency with Siobhán McDONALD
Biography An internationally leading climate scientist with strong reputation as a public communicator whose current role is leading the University of Cambridge’s bold and ambition climate change initiative, Cambridge Zero, which is dedicated to supporting the delivery of a resilient and sustainable zero-carbon future.
"More than estranged friends, art and science are brothers who lost contact. They are moving towards each other again and will find out that they have a lot in common. More especially, 1 think that science has taken a role of bringing wonder and elegance (or even beauty) into the world, while art sometimes can ask hard questions. Moreover, since the advent of the post-truth society, science finds itself in a situation of societal estrangement that art has known since two hundred years. Both can help each other to rediscover the ways of being truly relevant to society, and need to rally if we are to incite society to formulate answers to the big challenges we face. But most of all, from my previous experiences I have learned that by putting art and science together, by seeing the beauty of a visualisation, or by grasping the strangeness of certain scientific insights, and have this collide with artist's intuition and sensibility, the capacity for innovation and novelty are near endless." |
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