Join us back at The Guildhall for a seated 3-course dinner. This will be a chance to unwind, reflect on the day’s insights, and network with fellow changemakers whilst enjoying great food, drinks, and company.
We are also pleased to announce a display of Michael Benson’s, Nanocosmos.
A breathtaking tour of the natural world is offered in Nanocosmos, an examination of majestic vistas revealed by powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies. The beauty and immensity of our surrounding universe of planets, stars, and galaxies has inspired humanity for hundreds of years. But what about the vistas at the other end of the size scale? The tiny worlds here, invisible to our unassisted eyes, are if anything more intricate, complex, and extraordinary than anything so far seen in deep space. Artist and author Michael Benson’s Nanocosmos, to be published on October 28th by Abrams Books in New York, corrects this oversight in sensational fashion.
Constructed from SEM scans that he made over the course of six years at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Quebec, the images presented in Nanocosmos reveal an eerie, awe-inspiring beauty in subjects taken from the natural world. These include radiolarians, dinoflagellates, and diatoms, as well as many varieties of insects, microscopic flowers, and even lunar samples from the Apollo program. The composite mosaic micrographs visible in Nanocosmos fuse art and science in revelatory ways, exposing an astonishing sublimity hidden to the naked eye. In his keynote talk, Benson provides an eye-opening preview of the new book.
