The highlight presentations

This session showcased interdisciplinary research exploring the dialogues between the geosciences and the arts. The session was organized in two sub-sessions, with presentations on a range of scientific themes and artistic media. While the first session was more general, the second sub-session focussed exclusively on art for sustainability. Below is a list of the highlight presentations:

Stargazing at the ‘Invisible’: Photography and the Power of Obscured Light – A Research Partnership with Kielder Observatory.

Helen McGhie

The story of a tree and what its tells us about our life John Bruun

Disaster Passed: a singing, flashing and sobering glimpse into coping with volcanic eruptions

Jenni Barclay, Karen Pascal, OutPut Arts, Martin Mangler, James Christie, Teresa Armijos, Wendy Mcmahon, Richie Robertson, Stacey Edwards, and Kathleen Retourne

Artful-Geoscience: Co-Creating Urban Subsurface Futures? A discussion and an invitation.

Harriet Hawkins, Stephanie Bricker, Carol Cotteril, Eilidh Dunnet, Anna Hicks, and Hazel Napier

The carbon story: A textile-geoscience collaboration to represent changing atmospheric CO2 concentrations through time

Fiona Gill and Naomi Bailey-Cooper

INtergenerational Stories of Erosion and Coastal community Understanding of REsilience ‘INSECURE’ Katie Parsons, Florence Halstead, and Lisa Jones

Uniting science and art to appreciate the Earth with NatureVolve magazine

Clarissa Wright and Robert James Wright

Fore more information about this year ’s session, have a look at the session programme.

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