How can creativity and art in science become part of the problem-solving process? At Falling Walls we are looking for artists whose work is inspired and influenced by science across a wide range of subjects. Their outstanding work sheds light on societal issues, natural phenomena or simply the wonder of scientific discoveries. Art and Science category highlights the unique relationship between these apparently opposite but often highly complementary disciplines.

Tom is an artist and Associate Dean of Research at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London and is Principal Investigator for for the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project Materialising Data: Embodying Climate Change, a collaboration between Central St Martins and the British Antarctic Survey.

About Materialising Data Embodying Climate Change

The science of climate change is generally communicated through screen-based visualisations, graphs and other technical forms. However, we know from research that people respond poorly to information-heavy diagrams, seeing little connection between the abstract data values they represent and the ‘natural values’ of the ‘subjective climate’ they experience. Our encounters with climate science are also swamped by noisy information environments that fight for our focus, muffling urgent environmental signals and stymieing public engagement.

Tom Corbys and Giles Lanes research seeks to break through these walls by re-establishing a sensory and emotional connection to the sites, oceans and atmospheres captured but obscured by the abstractions of climate data. They propose that climate data possess additional emotional content or feeling, which can be deployed in ways that give it a new life and public agency
Using sustainable technologies, they translate this data into physical artworks and animations of dimensionality, into texture and surface that can be shared, touched and experienced at human scale. They posit the material presence of this work operates as a lure or visceral shortcut, enabling audiences to establish their own emotional connections with the complex forces at work behind the data.

About the Falling Walls Science Summit

The Falling Walls Science Summit is a leading international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral forum for scientific breakthroughs and science dialogue between global science leaders and society. The event takes place every year from 7–9 November in Berlin, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. With formats Falling Walls Pitches (7 November), Falling Walls Circle (8 November) and Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year (9 November), the Falling Walls Science Summit is the leading forum for global science leaders from academia, business, politics, the media, and civil society to debate the potential of scientific breakthroughs to solve grand challenges and shape a sustainable future. The Falling Walls Science Summit is organised by the non-profit Falling Walls Foundation. More: www.falling-walls.com

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