Programme Guide

Friday 23rd March 2007

THE GEOMETRIC MIND

TIME	EVENT	INVITED SPEAKER	DETAILS
6.00 -7.00pm	OPENING Cocktail Party	The Institute of Physics Publishing Bristol
6.00-7.00pm	Art Exhibition The Geometry of Physics	Frederique Swist	Frederique Swist has been Senior Designer at The Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol for five years. In that time, she has developed a unique style of transforming ordinary mathematical information into a highly visual treat.
7.00-8.00pm	SEMINAR Da Vinci and the Dance of Geometry	Interlude with Marina Wallace	Since 1997, Marina Wallace has written over five books and co-curated ten pioneering exhibitions that prove art and science can be communicated in a way that is daring, creative and wide-reaching, Her most recent project direction was the recent ‘Universal Leonardo’ in Italy, Germany and UK and her presentation tonight will pre-empt a forthcoming exhibition. She is Professor of Curation, Director of Artakt at CSM, Co-Director of Universal Leonardo, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London.
8.00-9.00pm	Art Exhibition Buddhabrot - The Liberation of Mathematics	Melinda Green, Mathematician	‘Buddhabrot’ is a special rendering of the interior of the well-known Mandelbrot set. So-named because it resembles depictions of the Buddha, the technique was discovered and described in 1993 by Melinda Green, a US mathematician. She and other mathematicians are collaborating with the Mind and Space Event for the first international hard copy showing of her work.

Saturday 24th March 2007

THE CREATIVE, INTERACTIVE, ARCHETYPAL MIND

TIME	EVENT	INVITED SPEAKER	DETAILS
10.00-11.30am	SEMINAR The Creative Mind	Morning Tea with Maggie Boden	Margaret Boden is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. Her latest books are "The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms" and "Mind As Machine: A History of Cognitive Science" –already hailed as modern classics. Her writing has been translated into 20 foreign languages, and she has given lectures across North and South America, Europe, India, the USSR, and the Pacific. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, she holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology - including a Cambridge DSc and three honorary Doctorates. In the New Year Honours list of 2002 she was awarded an OBE "for services to cognitive science." She has two children and three grand-children and lives in Brighton.
12.30- 2.00pm	SEMINAR The Interactive Mind	Lunch with Mike Wheeler	Mike Wheeler joined the Stirling Philosophy Department in 2004, following teaching and research posts at the Universities of Dundee Oxford and Stirling. As coordinator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council project investigating ‘Interactive Mind’, he facilitated researchers from a provocative and vast array of disciplines to combine art and science with accuracy, humour and collective enthusiasm. His primary research interests are in Philosophy of Science - especially cognitive science, psychology, biology, artificial intelligence and artificial life and philosophy of mind. His book, Reconstructing the Cognitive World: the Next Step, was published by MIT Press in 2005.
3.00-4.30pm	SEMINAR The Archetypal Mind	Afternoon Tea with Dave Snowden	A popular keynote speaker and one of the founders of Organic Knowledge Management as well as Director of the Institute of Knowledge Management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Dave Snowden takes the message of storytelling around the world. Combined with complexity theory, Dave’s storytelling method was honed for knowledge transfer in IBM and has now been taught in Fortune 500 Companies and governments. It is confronting and exhilarating in equal measure.
8.00–11.00pm	DINNER The Inventive Mind	SPEAKERS and special mystery guest	Engage in intense dialogue with our speakers and a Mystery Guest at the renowned Hole-in-the-Wall restaurant on George St, in Bath.

Sunday 25rd March 2007

THE PLAYFUL MIND

TIME	EVENT	INVITED SPEAKER	DETAILS
10.00 am -4.30pm	‘Designing the World’ Workshop	The PRIZM Game Company and Dave Snowden	Combining the insights of traditional Buddhist meditation and the modern understanding of Managerial Cybernetics, ‘Designing the World’ allows teams to move through potentially conflicting situations with the ease of story-telling. A sumptuous morning and afternoon tea and a hot lunch are provided, along with all materials. This workshop is especially suitable for facilitators and trainers who wish to expand their repertoire of techniques for creative personal development and community building.