stemistryPLUS
2011 Programme Overview & Method
During 2011 the stemistryPLUS writing group turned its attention to the following life sciences:
Nanotechnology
Evolutionary Genetics
Environmental Science
Computational Neuroscience
Each scientific discipline was the main theme for a writing workshop. Lisa Matthews, the Stemistry facilitator and lead writer, gathered illustrations, diagrams, quotations and provocations that gave a broad-based sense of each topic. During the workshops writers responded to writing exercises, devised by Lisa and inspired by the register and rigour of the science in question.
What came out can be found in the 4 thematic sections of the stemistryPLUS part of the site - click the links above.
Reflections on Stemistry: a social anthropolgist's perspective
A final, fifth workshop was lead by Dr Jackie Haq of PEALS. Dr Haq had been present at two of our workshops as a non-participating observer. She was very interested in our creative approach and the methods of enquiry we use in Stemistry. With the group’s permission Jackie was witness to our creative techniques and agreed to reflect back her experience of what we do. As a creative collective we valued this friendly, critical eye and would welcome more academic researchers working with us.
The Stemistry group has been meeting for a long time (we’re in our 6th year now) and as far as we know we are a unique collective of creative writers exploring science and the sci/art interface.
Click here to read Reflections of a Social Anthropologist
StemistryPLUS funding and support
The StemistryPLUS project was funded by Northern Rock Foundation, as part of the collaboration with Dr. Jackie Haq, PEALS Research Centre, exploring public engagement with science.
Notonecta glauca, or Waterboatman
StemistryPLUS reflections
We are pond life with sophisticated cosmetics
Is it possible to draw the map of all existence?
The Ortelius World Map