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The overall theme is to explore the role of microbes as an inherent part of our culture and everyday life. Through four themes: food, parenthood, wellbeing & health as well as microbes in art & fiction, we explore how we live with microbes, how we imagine them and how they affect us

Micro Worlds is a speculative workshop, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the multiple ways in which museums and their collections can function as sites to better understand our relationship with microbial worlds. What if, we want to ask, we were to think about museum collections not just as cultural or artistic objects, but also as equivalent to microbiological labs or as spaces for the cultivation of small beings?

Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019.

In this paper, I engage with Donna Haraway’s PhD-thesis turned book, “Crystals Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors that shape embryos (2004)”, first submitted in 1976. I presented the paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel.

Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the Associazone Culturale Matilde Pianciani, Spoleto, Italy.

“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms as endowed with human traits – the erotic, the comical, and the savage. Painlevé single-handedly established a unique kind of cinema, the “scientific-poetic cinema”.”

Medicinsk Museion, Københavns Universitets museum for medicinens kultur og historie, åbner mini-udstillingen AT INDFANGE EPIDEMIER: Fotografier af Nicolai Howalt den 13. november 2020. Udstillingens fotografier forsøger, ligesom lægevidenskaben, at indfange epidemier. Med billeder af genstande fra Medicinsk Museions samling billedliggør Howalt epidemiers historie.

We are very excited to announce the launch a new pop-up display in collaboration with artist Isabella Martin called Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms. This new display is an opportunity to share the process of developing a collaborative artwork exploring the science of circadian rhythms. The pop-up, created by Isabella Martin and Museion researcher Kristin Hussey, presents the workings of creating a piece of video art responding to the work of chronobiologists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR).

For den medicin- og kulturhistorisk interesserede registrator kan arbejdet med Medicinsk Museions protokollerne til tider være særdeles interessant, oplysende og bevægende – samt ofte ganske morsomt. Se blot konceptet vortebreve, som optræder flere gange i Museions protokoller.