Conversation: Mark Carnall brings Foraminifera models from the Grant Museum of Zoology
Saturday 29 March, 1pm
Professor Mark Carnall, curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology, University of Central London, is bringing a set of microfossil models from the Grant Museum of Zoology to a special event at Site Gallery. As an advocate of object based learning at all levels of education, Mark invites us to examine and discuss the objects.
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Previous Residency events
Conversation: Tim Birkhead brings the Alfred Denny Museum to Site Gallery
Tuesday 25 March, 6pm – 8pm
Professor Tim Birkhead, zoologist and Curator of Sheffield’s Alfred Denny Museum is bringing a surprise object from the museum collection for one night of engaged study and speculation. Join Florian to explore the object in question, from its potential meaning and purpose, to the importance of teaching aids and models as communication tools.
Tim Birkhead is an award winning author and ornithologist from the University of Sheffield, recently named UK Higher education Biosciences Teacher of the Year by the Society of Biology.
Free, booking recommended
Tim Birkhead is an award winning author and ornithologist from the University of Sheffield, recently named UK Higher education Biosciences Teacher of the Year by the Society of Biology.
Free, booking recommended
Reading Group
Tuesday 4 March, 5.30pm
Book: The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi
Platform artist-in-residence Florian Roithmayr joins us for an open discussion inspired by the work of Hungarian polymath Michael Polanyi (11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976). This reading group will focus upon Polanyi’s book ‘The Tacit Dimension’ (1966).
Central to Michael Polanyi’s thinking was the belief that creative acts, especially acts of discovery, are charged with strong personal feelings and commitments – hence the title of his most famous work Personal Knowledge. Arguing against the position that science was somehow value-free, Michael Polanyi sought to bring reasoned, critical acts into creative tension with other, more ‘tacit’ forms of knowing, or that which is understood or implied without being stated.
“I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell”, Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension.
No pre-reading is required for this reading group series.
Saturday Brunch Conversation, with Florian Roithmayr,
Saturday 8 March, 11am
Florian Roithmayr welcomes us to join him in the gallery as he introduces his Platform project Matter of Engagement, at the end of his first week in residence at Site Gallery.
Places are limited, booking is highly recommended.
£3 / £4 including brunch
Florian Roithmayr welcomes us to join him in the gallery as he introduces his Platform project Matter of Engagement, at the end of his first week in residence at Site Gallery.
Places are limited, booking is highly recommended.
£3 / £4 including brunch