An evening of encountering flourishing
On December 12, the first in-person Flourishing Salon at the National Academy of Sciences
Dear friends,
A short missive today to share that on December 12 (tonight!) we will host our first ever (and of many future) in-person Flourishing Salons—on stage and in conversation at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC!
Our salons are cultivated meeting spaces for uncommon and improbable interactions, organized around creating a more flourishing society and their purpose has always been to create encounters with flourishing. Tonight will be just such an encounter.
We will be brought into open discussion by four provocateurs (introductions to these wonderful individuals below) and a moderated discussion:
With Susan, Julie, Jennifer, and Dan and a cross-sectional community of listening and living will examine flourishing at the intersection of art, science, and society, and how we can expand the frontiers of knowledge creation through interdisciplinary collaboration. Co-located with the largest annual gathering of Earth, Space, and Data Scientists in the world, the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, we’ll be considering how we live and thrive together amidst emerging knowledge and capabilities in data science, open science, art, technology, and culture.
We are doing this in collaboration with the long-running DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), regular gatherings in DC exploring questions of the relationships among art, science, technology, culture, and all related disciplines or systems of understanding and how ways of knowing relate to one another to foster creativity, innovation, and discovery.
DASER has for more than a decade cultivated community and discussion around the intersection of art and science and we are overwhelmed at the opportunity to intersect the DASER and Salons communities.
In-person tickets are sold out, however we would love for you to join us online!
Looking forward to being in conversation with you this evening and in 2025,
Ryan
Provocateur introductions:
Julie Demuth is a research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Lab with the Weather Risks and Decisions in Society (WRaDS) research group. She has been working for more than 15 years on integrating social science research with the meteorological research and practitioner communities. She is also a pioneer of Convergence Science, the approach to scientific discovery for our most pressing challenges that involves deep integration across disciplines.
Dan Jay is Professor of Developmental Molecular and Chemical Biology at Tufts University and Adjunct Professor of Drawing and Painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Tufts’ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He is also a pioneer of the nexus between science and art, founding director of Enfold SciArt, a symposium addressing how to enact a Science-Art Institute for Transformative Creativity.
Susan Magsaman is the founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, a pioneering initiative from the Pedersen Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her body of work lies at the intersection of brain sciences and the arts—and how our unique response to aesthetic experiences can amplify human potential. Susan is the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
Jennifer J. Wiseman is a Director-Emeritus (formally Program Director) of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. She is also an astrophysicist at NASA, where she is the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope. Public speaker, science evangelist, and author, she is a brilliant articulator of the beauty of science and how it shows up in society.