25 Oct 2019 9:00am - 5:00pm Rooms SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT

Description

Leonardo da Vinci: Imagining Futures is a transdisciplinary initiative led by Ingrid Paoletti and Inanna Hamati-Ataya, developed with Marta D’Alessandro and gloknos’s partners at the Material Balance Research Group and the Department of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano.

The project launched in Milan in May 2019 at the start of Leonardo da Vinci’s 500th anniversary commemoration, and is moving to Cambridge in October 2019, before returning to Milan for its final activities.

Organisers: Inanna Hamati-Ataya (Cambridge) and Ingrid Paoletti (Milan).

This event is free to attend, but space will be limited. To register your interest, please email. You can view the programme for this event as a PDF.

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gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.

Programme

Friday 25 October 2019

09:00-09:15

Registration

09:15-09:30

‘Introductory Remarks: Imagining the Future with Leonardo

Inanna Hamati-Ataya (University of Cambridge)

09:30-10:30

‘Leonardo: A Technology of Nuance’

Federico Leoni (Università di Verona)

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:45

‘Beyond All Things: The Art of Leonardo da Vinci’s Approach to Engineering’

Nicola Carniato (AKT-II)

11:45-12:00

Break

12:00-13:00

‘The Da Vinci Flow’

Alessandro Melis (University of Portsmouth)

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

‘The Cultured Eye: From the Invention of Perspective to the Advent of the Anthropecene’

François Penz (University of Cambridge)

15:00-15:15

Break

15:15-16:15

‘Designing Emergent Material Culture’

Ingrid Paoletti (Politecnico di Milano)

16:15-16:30

Break

16:30-17:00

‘Concluding Remarks: da Vinci’s Innovation Environment: Lessons for our Future’

Inanna Hamati-Ataya (University of Cambridge)

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