‘the enchanted loom’ - art-science workshop… crossing the boundaries between science and art.....
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‘The Enchanted Loom’ - Art-science workshop…
Crossing the boundaries between science and art..Image credit: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging – University of Southern California and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project
Credit Dr Lizzie Burns ‘Me and myself’
Image credit :Christine Daniloff/MIT
“swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern – always a meaningful pattern”
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington1857-1952
An extraordinary man…
A scientist…
Credit Wellcome Images
A scientist…
Credit: Heidi Cartwright, Wellcome Images
Neurons…
Credit Dr Hermann Cuntz & Prof. Michael Häusser, UCL, Wellcome Images
Synapse…
Credit : Dr Lizzie Burns/Medical Research Council
The man…
Credit: Wellcome Library, London
1857 – Born in Islington1871 – Ipswich Grammar School (teacher – poet)1876 – St Thomas’s Hospital, London1879 – Cambridge, Natural Sciences1881 – Seventh International Medical Congress, London1886 – Royal Society, sent to Cholera epidemic in Spain, Berlin1887 – St Thomas – lecturer (scar tissue, blood, bacteria, oysters1891 – Institute of Preventative Medicine – diphtheria antitoxin1895-1913 – University of Liverpool1913-1935 – Magdalen College, ‘Mammalian Physiology’1914 – Industrial Fatigue board – 13 hour shifts (age 57!)1932 – Nobel prize (with E. D. Adrian)1935 – Retired1937 – ‘On man and his Nature’1952 – died aged 94 years
A box of wonders…
“We must learn to teach the best attitude to what is not yet known”
- What would you like to learn about in science?- What do you think we’ll never fully understand?
Art-science…
Credit Nuada Medical , Wellcome Images
Draw around body and draw and paint in nerves/ muscles..
Work of art!
Write in what different bits might do…
Nerve/muscle portraits…
“all man can do is to move things”
Credit Miles Kelly Art Library, Wellcome Images
Neurons controlling muscles
Credit: Tom Gillingwater, Wellcome Images
Credit John Wildgoose, Wellcome Images
Credit Hermann Aberle, University of Munster, Wellcome Images
Make a bit of brain…
“The whole crust of the brain is one thick tangled jungle of exchanges and of branching lines going thither and coming thence”
Draw a neuronAdd more + synapses
Credit Dr Jonathan Clarke, Wellcome Images
Credit Andrew Kueh, Wellcome Images
Brain self-portrait
Draw a picture of you and your brain..Imagine what’s happening inside – lots going on!Write/draw/poetry
Credit Mark Lythgoe & Chloe Hutton, Wellcome Images Credit Patrick Hales, UCL, Wellcome Images
Box of wonders...
Look at brain slices…Contribute to collages…
Quotes…
“it is as though our mind were a pool of which movements on the surface only are what we experience”
“step by step things shape. There appear, tiny a first, what to the eye of the expert are recognisable as rudiments of parts of the future creature”
With great thanks to:
Recommendations for further links/resources
www.humanconnectomeproject.orgg
https://history.medsci.ox.ac.uk/cslide/
Courtesy of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging – University of Southern California and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Consortium of the Human Connectome Project