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Sade Abiodun
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Devin Adair
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Jenna Caravello
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Rachel Feltman
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Brenda de Groot
Leiden University | Scholar & Artist
I am a researcher, artist and sentientist fascinated about the nonhuman people with whom we share our planet. I participated as a Fellow in last year’s DISI, and since the other half of me is an artist, I aspired to return as a Storyteller. And what do you know, here I am!
As an academic, my research interests span from ethology to animal ethics and everything related to it, such as compassionate conservation, critical animal studies, and philosophy of mind. My formal training is in psychology (BSc) and primatology (MSc Primate Conservation), where I studied the behaviour of the Germain's Langur and created a conservation education project alongside. I also developed an interest on the ethics behind conservation. This sparked a deep dive into the topic of animal ethics and speciesism, and in 2019 I decided to start a masters at the art academy to further develop the idea of sentientism - the moral philosophy that takes sentience, not species, as the criterion for moral consideration.
The past decades of research and philosophy have confirmed that animals are complex, feeling beings. I believe it is time to shift society's current anthropocentric paradigm into a sentiocentric one. I hope my research and art (illustration, sculpture, storytelling) will contibute to this evolution.
I got a website with art and other things.
a) What I am most looking forward to is an impossible question to answer – I am looking forward to all of it, from getting to know you all, to the lectures, to working on projects together.
b) I'll gladly contribute my expertise in primatology, (social) psychology, conservation education, illustration and animal ethics. I am also keen on designing nice PowerPoints and creating a compelling story around the project.
c) I'm eager to learn more about (i) how we can understand how other animals experience their lives; who they are as persons and people, and (ii) how we can change make people and society at large more sensitive to other animals.
d) Project proposals:
i) Academic: Position paper on Sentientism
"Consciousness is of paramount importance to all of us. By definition it is the universe of our awareness. On the assumption that many other species are conscious or sentient I have suggested that our morality is based upon a concern for all sentients-which I have called sentientism." (Ryder, 1990; p.4).
Sentientism is a moral philosophy that takes sentience (i.e., the the ability to feel, perceive, or be conscious) as the criterion for moral consideration. While many scholars support a sentientist ethic, until today, no paper exists that explicitly calls for sentientism as a moral foundation. My idea was to write and publish a position paper or essay on sentientism, and recruit prominent scholars in the field of animal ethics and beyond to be co-authors of the paper, so to create a great impact.
ii) Artistic: Umwelt 2.0
I'll also be working an art-science project, in which I'll revisit and illustrate Jacob von Uexküll's (1938) concept of Umwelt (with a little layered update I was thinking of), backed up with today's knowledge of animal perception and cognition.
Rachel Gross
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Ashia Lance
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Yongbom Lee
Composer, lecturer at University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
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Luke Nickel
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Sara Niksic
Inner Child / ARTScience MedILS
"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
I believe that artists and scientists are like kids that never quite grew up, and I'm a bit of both. As a marine biologist, musician and bioacoustician, I often immerse myself in the world of sound.
"Curiouser and curiouser!"
Ever since I was little I have loved stories about animals that talk and behave in peculiar ways. Animal behaviour still fascinates me, especially ther vocal communication, social learning and culture, and the evolution of these traits. Over the years I studied various species of marine mammals, my favourites being humpback whales with their incredible songs!
For over a decade I have been developing innovative ways of science communication and education, using storytelling and art as my main tools. I also finished music school, play piano, handpan and produce electronic music.
For my DISI project I am creating a music piece accompanied by a short story through which I want to showcase the diversity of intelligences, as well as the diversity of DISI community. If you have any AUDIO RECORDINGS related to this topic, especially the sounds of other species, please send them my way! Also, if you want to be included in the STORY, send me one SHORT sentence in form of a QUESTION about the most intriguing topic of your work in this field. Finally, if you are a VISUAL ARTIST and want to create artwork to accompany my music piece please get in touch!
I'm open for any other ideas and collaborations and look forward to meeting you all! :)
https://twitter.com/NiksicSara
https://innerchildmusic.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/inner-child-music
Alex Wolf
na2ure.org, INCOSE, NASA PeTaL
What if the automatic pattern recognition that humans and other species are wired to perceive the natural world by and the code which nature used to grow that world were based in the same core patterns? If that is true, which we argue in a chapter I co-wrote* in Biomimicry for Materials, Design, and Habitats, edited by colleagues at NASA V.I.N.E./Biocene, then our innate connection to natural forms in the patternABC can then serve as an alphabet and the basis for a language for bio-inspired design, a way to learn from nature and more urgently, design our way out of climate disaster and into a future living with our earth raising children with deep biophilia.
The Pattern Alphabet(patternABC) is a set of natural patterns of growth, geometry and symmetry which we find in the natural sciences, art, and design of everyday things. (70 second video). It’s a way into “da Vinci vision”, seeing like an artist and a scientist at the same time by seeing form and function at once. Schools split learning into verbal and math, ignoring that cognition is a third verbal, math and spatial, resulting in us underserving many highly spatial people along the way.
As the first alphabet for spatial, which corresponds to early childhood, we hope to integrate patternABC into preschool as the first alphabet kids learn. The patterns look to make visible the spatial reasoning in preschool play, and continue that as design learning in K-12 to support a renaissance style cross-disciplinary thinking to capture our mechanical and imaginative thinkers across all fields, STEM, Arts and Letters.
The patternABC is preschool to PhD to AI: tested for UNICEF(9 minute video), used in engineering courses via INCOSE’s Natural Systems Working Group members(I am co-chair), and in NASA’s Periodic Table of Life (PeTaL) AI(I’m an external collaborator).
*My cofounder at na2ure.org, Vijal Parikh, is a psychiatrist who studied neurobiology and behavior at Cornell and is the scientific complement to my artistic thinking.
· What are you most looking forward to at DISI?
Meeting everyone and nerding out in a cross disciplinary way, which is how I am wired, and seeing the connections across and within disciplines.
· What is your expertise? What could you contribute to a project?
Patterns in nature and spatial reasoning are my core skills from being a trained artist, and so seeing form and function, what we call da Vinci vision, helps people see as an artist and a scientist at the same time.
· What are you most eager to learn about at DISI?
I’m keen to learn more about pattern recognition for animals, plants, AI and babies, and how that is signaled via gesture and sign language.Work on the patternABC’s spatial ramifications is a broad deep topic which seems to crosscut all the intelligences I understand are explored at DISI.
As a storyteller, I’m eager to work on the gesture part of the pattern alphabet font which is the “spoken” component of the patterns(like the ABC song), and hope to make the hand gestures for each pattern. Maybe a haiku from the patterns as an example helps describe how the spatial metaphors we use everyday in language, like “spiral out of control” or “branching out” derive from nature. Since there are experts here in gesture, I hope to connect with them, and I hope to meet anyone with expertise in any sign language to refine the hand gestures.
Additionally, we have a prototype of a patternABC app for people working with animals and pre-verbal children which would be interesting to show to anyone who might have use for it.
Jenny Zhang
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