DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)

Flourishing Salons

Ryan McGranaghan, data scientist and Earth & space systems scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hosted an evening of conversation and exploration of the concept of flourishing. Flourishing is an unfolding process of growth and transformation. As anthropologist James Suzman puts it, flourishing involves using our resources to enrich ourselves spiritually, mentally, and in service to the greater good. Political philosopher Danielle Allen describes it as empowerment in our personal lives and our shared public spaces. This salon will examine flourishing at the intersection of art, science, and society, and how we can expand the frontiers of knowledge creation through interdisciplinary collaboration. New approaches are emerging in data science, open science, art, technology, and culture, interacting in ways that could transform our understanding of how we live and thrive together. This DASER was organized in connection with the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting #AGU24.

Speakers:

Julie Demuth, lead, National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) Convergence Science Program, and Project Scientist III, NSF NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab, Boulder, Colorado

Daniel Jay, dean emeritus, professor emeritus of Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, part-time lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Susan Magsamen, executive director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, co-director, NeuroArts Blueprint, and co-author, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Jennifer J. Wiseman is an astrophysicist at NASA, Greenbelt, MD, and Director-Emeritus of the AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program. She studies the formation of stars and serves as the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.

About DASER

DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) is organized to explore several key questions: What are the relationships among art, science, technology, culture, and all related disciplines or systems of understanding? How do these disciplines relate to one another to foster creativity, innovation, and discovery? What are the tangible results of these interactions? DASER aims to create community and discussion around the intersection of art and science.

DASER is organized by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences in collaboration with Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the DASER events are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the National Academy of Sciences or of Leonardo.