Where Science And Art Collide

20 Dec

This is a guest post by Susana Simões Pereira.

Have you ever heard of using dance to study science, as, for instance, cells movements? Well, John Bohannon has. Actually, he recently presented his “Dance Your PhD” project at TEDxBrussels, which aims to use dance as a way to study and communicate science efficiently.

But using art as a mean to communicate science to scientists and non-scientists, kids and adults, is the intent of some other interesting projects like “The love motel for Insects” at NYC. This project, “brought to life” by Brandon Ballengée, allows people to contact and learn about arthropods lives while enjoying themselves.

Another kind of SciArt project is developed by Luke Jerram. Through a wonderful collection of glass microbiology structures, he provides us a visual understanding of the structure of some nasty viruses and bacteria we hear about and deal with in our lives.

These are some of many examples that show learning science can be indeed fun and take place in very different contexts from the ones we’re used to. So, enjoy!

Susana Simões Pereira is a Portuguese mathematician and PhD student in Science Communication. She works to bring science to the public in Portugal and is interested in the way science is shared through social media, as well as the intersection of art and science.

[Note from Sheril: This is a phenomenal TED Talk - Click play!]

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