Creating the Conditions for Creativity
Torrance Festival of Ideas online event
Tuesday, April 18 at 2 PM
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/torranceideasfest2023

The demand for creative thinking and innovative problem-solving has never been higher, in business, in classrooms, and across our rapidly changing planet. This panel will explore the neuro-cognitive data on how creativity can be shaped by different spaces, from the height of our office ceilings to the design of VR and other digital spaces with which we interact, and how this impacts our cognitive agility for adapting to the future.

Panel:

Guest speaker: Pireeni Sundaralingam, Neuro-Resilience Consulting

Elizabeth King, Ecology/Forestry

Mark Callahan, UGA Arts Collaborative

Host: Anna Abraham, Torrance Center

Pireeni Sundaralingam has conducted cognitive research at M.I.T and Oxford as well as leading the research program at Silicon Valley’s Center for Humane Technology. As Principal Advisor on Human Potential at the United Nations Museum, she spearheaded strategy on behavior change around key global challenges, and is currently Interdisciplinary Catalyst at Oxford University’s oldest college, as well as founder and CEO of Neuro-Resilience Consulting. https://neuro-resilience.net

Idea Lab Conversation: AI Future
Tuesday, April 4 at 2:30 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

How will artists use new technologies?

Join Eliana Gelman, Aryan Thakur, and Sudhan Chitgopkar for a conversation about their creative practices and Idea Lab-supported projects incorporating VR, AI, and robotics. Gelman and Thakur are co-creators of Treehouse Zine, an art publication exploring the intersection of virtual reality experience and storytelling. Chitgopkar’s project Towards Analog combines generative art and mathematics.

Idea Lab Conversation: Creative Placemaking
Thursday, March 16 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

How can collaborations in the arts promote community understanding?

Join Connie Frigo, a professor of saxophone and co-founder of the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic, a partnership between UGA and the local Hip Hop community. She is an organizer of interdisciplinary arts events with a focus on the creative process, social justice advocacy, and community engagement.

https://www.athenshiphopharmonic.com

The Idea Lab student organization is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.

Webinar: Artists and Scholars Changing Culture, Creating Change
Thursday, February 23 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/artists-and-scholars-changing-culture-creating-change-findings-from-an-imagining-america-research-initiative/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible to attend

We invite you to Part I of a two part webinar series, co-hosted by Imagining America and a2ru.

The words ‘culture change’ are commonly used by those who aim to hold academic institutions accountable to supporting and recognizing public artmaking and scholarship. But what does it actually mean?