2019 ANNUAL REPORT SCIENCE GALLERY DETROIT CONTENTS

01 INTRODUCTION 21 DEPTH EVALUATION

03 ABOUT SCIENCE GALLERY DETROIT 30 ABOUT MEDIATORS

05 ABOUT SCIENCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL 31 MEDIATOR REFLECTIONS

07 MILESTONES 35 MEDIA COVERAGE

09 EXHIBITION: DEPTH 37 PROGRAMMING

12 LIST OF DEPTH EXHIBITS 40 PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

15 DEPTH EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS 43 SGD – ADVISORY BOARD

ii INTRODUCTION

This year saw Science Gallery Detroit This report details the high-quality Thank you to all who supported us this our worlds, from the nano to the macro expand in significant ways. Our second Science Gallery experiences we delivered year. The Michigan State University scale, and explores if we will design a exhibition, DEPTH, was bigger in every for Detroit. The report focuses on DEPTH, Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU), future that can sustain us, make us happy, way—more exhibits, more programming, which engaged people in questions about our founding partner, continues to and help us grow. We also look forward to more people impacted (30K), and higher the future of water and our future as be a generous investor. This year the permanent space in Detroit and the ability quality outcomes. Our programming humans. We design learning experiences Science Sandbox program of the Simons to provide expanded learning opportunities outside of DEPTH was also well-attended intended to surprise, to connect people to Foundation supported DEPTH. They are to the people of Detroit. and well-received. We are providing ideas and to each other, and to encourage visionary and creative, and we have been Please join us in this work. learning experiences in Detroit that are participation. Our evaluations suggest that inspired by them. We also were fortunate unique, compelling, and impactful. we were successful. Of equal importance to have courageous and generous partners in this report is our mediator program. in the Michigan Science Center, who The second year of a startup is sometimes That program is a high-impact learning hosted DEPTH. much harder than the first year. The work experience for young adults from Detroit. is less unique and the demands higher. As we move into year three, we look to our We are proud of the program. But we are Yet we continue the compelling and next exhibition—Future Present: Design in Jeff Grabill more proud of the mediators. They are exciting work of creating the first Science a Time of Urgency. This exhibition takes Associate Provost for Teaching, remarkable. Gallery in the Americas. up critical questions of how we design Learning, and Technology

01 02 ABOUT SCIENCE GALLERY DETROIT

Science Gallery Detroit is the North American member of the Global Science Gallery Network, which was established with the goal of creating an international network of universities based on the success of Science Gallery at .

Science Gallery Detroit is a space to ask “what if” questions, which requires insights from diverse voices. It is a space where instead of just asking “why,” we also ask “why not?”

MSU has chosen Detroit because Detroit has the most young people in the state and a world-famous tradition in technology, design, and the arts. One hundred years ago, Detroit was the Silicon Valley of the world and has not lost the spirit and capacity to create. We believe that Detroit is the most promising city in North America for innovative projects intended to change the world.

We are committed to a space where young adults from diverse backgrounds and perspectives are treated with respect and where their ideas and feedback are expressed and valued. We are committed to engaging people who don’t think of themselves as science enthusiasts. We are committed to reaching and supporting the people of Detroit.

03 04 ABOUT SCIENCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL

In 2012, Science Gallery International was established with the goal of creating a Global Science Gallery Network with eight nodes by 2020 based on the success of Science Gallery Dublin at Trinity College Dublin. The university- led network is connected by a shared mission to ignite curiosity and discovery where art and science collide.

What has emerged is a global, interdisciplinary network that intentionally includes young people unlike any seen before. This year the gallery in Dublin will serve more than 400,000 people.

Other permanent galleries have been established by Kings College, and the University of . In addition, permanent gallery space is coming on line soon in Bengaluru, , and , . This year Erasmus Medical College, , was added to the network. In the next three years, the network expects to add nodes in , Tokyo, Mexico City, and .

Michigan State University is the first partner in the Americas.

05 06 MILESTONES

FEB OCT JAN 2017 2017 2018

Michigan State University Science Gallery Detroit receives Kicks off programming with The Intersection series, which becomes part of the Science a founding grant from the MSU paired artists and scientists in dialogues around various Gallery International Network. Federal Credit Union (MSUFCU) topics helping to emphasize interdisciplinary education. at one million-dollars. The Intersection was produced in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).

JUNE APRIL JUNE NOV 2018 2019 2019 2019

Science Gallery Detroit’s Science Gallery Detroit receives Science Gallery Detroit’s Launched open call first exhibition, HUSTLE, a $200,000 grant from Simon’s second exhibition, DEPTH, for the third exhibition, attracting 10,000 visitors. Foundation to support its second attracting 30,000 visitors. Future Present: Design exhibition, DEPTH. in a Time of Urgency.

07 08 EXHIBITION: DEPTH

Our second exhibition, DEPTH, explored The exhibits in DEPTH invited visitors humanity’s relationship to water. We into a process of inquiry about water. One opened to the public from June 8 to exhibit used water as a medium to shape August 17, 2019, inside the Michigan the creation of sounds. Another provided Science Center. DEPTH asked big recordings made under water as material questions about the future of water, for making acoustic collages. Yet another about how our relationships with water presented large, colorful representations of can enhance the common good, and what the empty space, air pockets, and rivulets radical, transformative, even surprising in the microscopic world of root systems- actions might create new ways to care -systems that work with soil to reduce the for water and for all who need it. amount of carbon released into the air. And another created a virtual reality that There is a rich connection between water reflected Native American Anishinaabe and human experience. From creation concepts of star constellations and their stories about life on Earth, to the looming, relationship to respecting, preserving, devastating effects of pollution and and caring for water. climate change, water has the power to spread life and rejuvenation as well as Each exhibit asked visitors to participate, death and destruction. Although water to question, and to engage with ideas. is all around us and composes most DEPTH asked visitors to imagine our of our bodies and much of the natural futures in relation to water and to consider world, we often take it for granted. what that future will be.

09 10 LIST OF DEPTH EXHIBITS

Along the River of Spacetime by Elizabeth LaPensee (MSU)

Between Worlds: Microbial Beauty of Belle Isle by Jenifer Wightman

Blue by Laura Magnusson Calving by Kate Collyer Cloud Catchers by Lily Consuelo SaportaTagiuri Crystallization by Ayse Gul Suter Deep Channels by Charlie Cooper (MSU alum) Deep Surface by Zac Brunell and Alex Nouhan, Detroit Bureau of Sound (MSU alum)

Detroit Water Portrait by Nicole Clouston Distorted Depths by Heather Beardsley ETERNAL by Maris Polanco (MSU alum) Flowffocate by Xia Gao (MSU) Fog of Dawn by Sarah Evans, Greg Bonito, Jj Kidder, Bjoern Hamberger, Britta Hamberger, Davis Mathieu and Abby Bryson (MSU)

Green Steward by Matthew Seaton

H20 Detonator by Michael Flynn Hear the Difference by Ben Gottesman, YEAIKNOW and Janna Ahrndt

Hidden Water by Ariel Shrogen and Jay Zarnetske (MSU)

11 12 High Tide by Kelly Salchow (MSU) Ice Chess by Catherine Sarah Young Precarity by Amber Pearson (MSU) Pull by Michelle Barker and Anna Munster Schmidt Ocean Institute Scope: Theatre of Collaborative Survival by Elizabeth Henaff, Heather Parrish and Leonard Roussel

Sonaqua by Scott Kildall Sound Mural for Detroit by Jan Tichy Still Water Watching by Hanneke van Velzen Ten Kinds of Fog by Gyungju Chyon and John Sadar

The Great Lakes Algae Organ by Jennifer Willet The Secret Sound of Ponds by Ben Gottesman, David Rothenberg, Camille Desjonqueres and Casey Synesael

Water and Knowledge: Sharing Solutions by Julia Bello Bravo, Severina Adames Cox and Ben Blalock

Water Under Our Feet by Andrey Guber, Kyungmin “Alyssa” Kim, Maxwell Oether and Alexandra “Sasha” Kravchenco (MSU)

What do you Know about Water and Health by Dr. Joan Rose, Melissa Downs, Aaron Eshleman, Manni Liu, John Furcean and Dr. Erin Dreelin (MSU)

13 14 DEPTH EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

What Do You Know about Water and Hidden Water by Ariel Shrogren Health? By MSU’s Joan Rose and Jay Zarnetske

This interactive exhibit is designed to Arial Shogren, Jay Zarnetske, the Michigan engage the public and get them thinking State University (MSU) Watershed Science about water and health as it relates to & Hydroecology Lab in partnership with sanitation, pathogens, and human health the MSU Shadows Project in Michigan and around the world. Visitors How much water is used to produce can test their water and health knowledge the t-shirt you’re wearing? Your cup of in four areas (Michigan, the Great Lakes, coffee? Hidden Water aims to increase USA and Global) via an online multiple public awareness of some of the choice test. The test is timed to quickly connections water has to our everyday evaluate our current understanding of our lives. Look into the series of wooden major water and health issues and provide boxes to reveal the amount of water feedback on each question. Test results used to produce common objects. automatically input into a real-time graph showing the cumulative knowledge of all This exhibit was created by members users visiting the exhibit. of the MSU Watershed Sciences & Hydroecology Lab in collaboration with the Sustainable Wood Recovery Initiative and the MSU Shadows Collection, which partners with Michigan artisans to repurpose campus trees into handmade, heirloom-quality works of art.

15 16 ETERNAL by Maris Polanco

Made from plastic bags, this larger than life-size jellyfish floats from the ceiling, pointing toward the issue of plastic in the ocean and the dangers it presents for ocean wildlife. Floating in ocean tides, these not-so-ephemeral wisps of plastic highly resemble a favorite snack of many large sea creatures: jellyfish.

The consequences of such mistaken identity have made the news. A pilot whale dies, malnourished, with 20 pounds of plastic bags in her stomach. More than half of all sea turtles appear to have eaten plastic bags, thinking they were jellyfish. The notorious longevity of plastic and the amazing longevity of certain jellyfish species make for an interesting, if not macabre, marriage of ideas.

17 18 Fog of Dawn: Bjoern Hamberger & Team Along the River of Spacetime: Elizabeth LaPensee

Life emerged in the oceans. Fungal a primordial lineage of fungi, Mortierella, Along the River of Spacetime, originally technology and intentional design. symbionts and their photosynthetic hosts inoculates the soil. The audience commissioned by the Guggenheim Along the River of Spacetime does just pulled off the ultimate coup, claiming can observe in the four stages how Foundation Fellowship, is a virtual reality this by embedding Anishinaabeg scientific the land as their new habitat. This Physcomitrella and Mortierella colonize game which shares Anishinaabeg teachings teachings within user interactions. The experimental installation features five their new space. The project intends relating to land practices, star knowledge, leaps in the journey are activated with self-contained habitats which, each two to fuel discussions about deep space and quantum physics in an interactive an Anishinaabe symbol which parallels a weeks apart, are inoculated with cells of exploration, terraforming, and synthetic non-linear journey about restoring rivers particle physicists theorize may relate to the moss Physcomitrella, one of the most biology. This installation is in part and their eco-systems by activating teleportation, recently recognized by the ancient lineages of land plants. A last supported by the NSF Dimensions of Anishinaabe constellations. Coded particle LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron one will project humanity into the future, Biodiversity project ‘Phylogenetic and systems of light, hand drawn art, and 360° Collider. As riverways are fully restored, with colonization of Mars. Physcomitrella Functional Diversity of Tripartite Plant- film of riverways running through Nkwejong Anishinaabeg teachings about spacetime can live in water and uses free-swimming Fungal-Bacterial Symbioses’ and the in Michigan are merged into technology- unravel to the light of stars reflecting on sperm, but can survive on land under the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center. empowered storytelling. waters to nourish medicinal plants set to right conditions. The first land plants were music by Peguis First Nation mix artist Bjoern Hamberger is joined by fellow MSU The work reflects Indigenous futurisms, not alone in making the step from water to Exquisite Ghost. researchers Sarah Evans, Greg Bonito, Jj a term coined by Grace L. Dillon relating land. Microbes provided critical support. Kidder, Britta Hamberger, Davis Mathieu, how Indigenous stories share science. This piece was created by MSU’s Simulating such an early terrestrial and Abby Bryson. So, too, can stories be shared through Elizabeth LaPensee. ecosystem, daily fog carrying spores of

19 20 DEPTH EVALUATION: BY THE NUMBERS DEPTH ONLINE ENGAGEMENT

INSTAGRAM | Total Followers: 1,070

Growth Rate: +96% from June 1, 2018

Audience: 59% between the ages of 13 to 34

30,000 31 VISITORS EXHIBITS TWITTER | Total Followers: 751

Growth Rate: +33% from June 1, 2018 20+ EVENTS Audience: 62% Female

FACEBOOK | Total Followers: 946 57 10 ARTISTS/ COMMUNITY Growth Rate: +53% from June 1, 2018 PARTICIPANTS PARTNERS

Audience: 38% between the ages of 13 to 34

21 22 DEPTH EVALUATION: VISITOR FEEDBACK I AM MOVED BY...

Our visitor evaluation provided two walls The majority of comments were related 100 on which participants could provide to water or environmental conservation, feedback and read the feedback of with participants indicating that they 90 others. One wall asked what visitors felt moved to recycle and use more 80 were “moved” to think, feel, or do. reusable materials as a result of their experience. This suggests that the vision The overwhelming majority of people 70 and execution of the exhibition were who left responses felt compelled to do well-aligned. Many people were also 60 something as a result of their experience concerned about reducing their use of with DEPTH. These comments included plastic. Visitors frequently mentioned the 50 a general desire to make a difference, impact that reducing plastic use could political activism, holding the government/ 40 have on marine and ocean life (i.e. saving corporations accountable, teaching the turtles or jellyfish). Some visitors others about what they had learned, 30 also mentioned becoming vegetarians or reducing plastic use, taking better care vegans, or expressed general despair about 20 of the planet, creating their own creative human impact on the environment. artworks, and increased interest in water 10 and environmental conservation. 0

23 24 MORE CURIOUS DEPTH EVALUATION: VISITOR FEEDBACK

Our second evaluation wall invited visitors Our goal was to surprise visitors with to identify what they were moved by or the experience, to engage them in moved to do. reflection and with those around them, and help them imagine more participatory Many felt compelled to act as a result 752 682 engagement with the world. Our evaluation of their experience with DEPTH. These suggests that what people experienced intended actions included a general desire was well-aligned with the vision of the to make a difference, becoming politically exhibition. active, holding the government and corporations accountable, and teaching 53 others about what they had learned. 15 18 Others intended to reduce plastic use, take better care of the planet, or create FEEL FEEL their own art. EMPOWERED 14 DISEMPOWERED

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LESS CURIOUS

25 26 DEPTH EVALUATION: VISITOR FEEDBACK NINETY-EIGHT PERCENT OF VISITORS WERE INSPIRED BY THE EXHIBITION…

“The exhibit was amazing. Very eye “This was awe-inspiring and beautiful! So opening. Especially learning how much happy to see this happening in the city water it takes to make the things we of Detroit! Just bought a reusable straw use every day. We saw your other exhibit online!” at the 1001 Woodward building. That

exhibit was great, but the scale of this “Thanks for bringing so many one is amazing!” environmental issues connected to the liquid we can’t live without to Detroit “Very interesting, educational, and eye in a creative and interactive way. Here’s opening.” hoping some young ones are inspired to pursue the sciences by this!”

“The place where we saw the chips, and

eggs, and milk...I was so surprised and “I felt like I was in school, but in the best unaware we have been using so much way possible.” water!”

“Very thankful for you guys to allow me “Love the use of plastic bags for the and my family this experience free of jellyfish.It’s powerful to see.” charge.”

27 28 ABOUT MEDIATORS

A key aspect of the Science Gallery visitor Science Gallery’s mission and vision find experience is interacting with our mediator the unique skills and knowledge they team. Mediators are a team of young gain from as mediators to be enriching adults with a passion for talking about and rewarding. The development and science and the arts. They are selected individual growth of our mediators is just for the role because they are interested in as, if not more, important than the role the world around them, and their primary they play in our gallery, and mediators responsibility is to engage Science Gallery are asked to complete an individual visitors in conversation, listening to reflection at the end of each exhibition. their input and ideas and discussing the From growing curiosity about the specific underlying themes embodied in exhibits. content within an exhibition to personal They are key to the experience and ensure reflections on the ways their skills have that Science Gallery is a space for ideas expanded, learning is the heart of what to collide and for opinions to be shared. mediators describe when looking back on their experiences working with Science Working as a mediator provides young Gallery Detroit. Mediators outline powerful adults with the opportunity to explore moments where visitors helped them new and existing passions, identify learn something new, and how they saw potential career pathways, and further their communication skills, knowledge, examine the connections between and perceptions of the relationship science and art. It is a useful stepping between science and art expanding and stone for future opportunities. Young transforming as a result of their work. adults with a clear engagement with

29 30 MEDIATOR REFLECTIONS

This report summarizes the reflections from Science Gallery Detroit’s DEPTH mediator team. Mediators engaged in two forms of reflection: a group reflection primarily focused on team takeaways and an individual reflection that further examined personal learnings. For their individual reflections, mediators responded to nine prompts, and had the option to choose the medium they used for their reflection. Over half of the mediator team completed their individual reflections, and all selected a written format.

Overall, mediators reported a highly positive experience working for Science Gallery Detroit. Throughout both the team and individual reflections, mediators consistently mentioned the ways that their experience with Science Gallery helped them understand, recognize, and explore the relationship between science and art, enhanced their communication skills, sparked new interests, and improved confidence. The conversations the mediators had with visitors (and the stories visitors shared with them) often emerged as the top highlight of the mediator experience. Mediators also enjoyed the participatory methods Science Gallery had for collecting feedback on the gallery as a whole (evaluation walls, comment cards).

31 32 MEDIATOR FEEDBACK FEEDBACK ON LEARNING FEEDBACK ON PERSONAL GROWTH

“I learned more about the social “[I learned] How to be adaptable “Working at this gallery really opened “In my own life as a STEM major and implications that come with environmental and effectively communicate with up my mind to the connection between someone who spends the majority of issues and how to present those in a way a diverse range of people. There science and art. Before, to me they my time around science and scientific that would be engaging and informative were a lot of times where I had to were mostly independent of each other, practices there is minimal focus on with a variety of age groups.” set aside my views about something but they had elements of one another any other interdisciplinary aspect. The in order to have a productive contained within their basic structure, experience I have had at Science Gallery “I think the most important thing I learned conversation with someone who but after working in the gallery it had both summer 2018 and summer 2019

was that the best conversations/experiences thought differently from me.” shifted to the idea that they revolve I have started to recognize the art in you have with people is when you least around each other.” the science that I produce and study. I expect it and have an open mind.” have started to draw scientific concepts “I always thought they [science and from art as well and find the intersection art] were two very distinct disciplines, between these two disciplines to be but the overlap between them is so quite prevalent.” much more clear to me. I think it is so powerful to see science and art used together to bring attention to relevant and overwhelming topics in today’s world like climate change, water scarcity, our relationship with technology etc.”

33 34 MEDIA COVERAGE

“Science Gallery Detroit “Experience art and science “Science Gallery Detroit and “Spotlight on the News receives $200,000 grant at one-of-a-kind art gallery Michigan Science Center with Chuck Stokes” from Science Sandbox” in Detroit” Collaborate to host Summer WXYZ MSUToday WDIV’s Click on Detroit of Science” Michigan Chronicle

“Water exhibit coming to “Science Gallery Detroit “Fun at Michigan Science Center” Michigan Science Center receives $200,000 grant WXYZ Detroit “Summer of Science | Free in June” from Science Sandbox” Admission to DEPTH Exhibit” Detroit Free Press Associated Press Visit Detroit

“MSU Offering free ‘Summer of Science’ programs in “Jeff Grabill MSU Professor; “MSU Exhibit “DEPTH” “Art and science make waves Metro Detroit” Executive Director of Science explores our ties to water in exhibition ‘DEPTH’” Oakland Press Gallery Detroit” at Michigan Science Center” C&G News WILS Detroit News

35 36 PROGRAMMING

In addition to Science Gallery Detroit’s annual exhibition, we produce programs year-round and throughout the exhibition season. Our goal is to create ongoing informal learning spaces, all of which are free to attend. Each event merges art and science while addressing a wide scope of topics to surprise and encourage participation with attendees. We curate enriching events that connect with our audience and take place throughout the city of Detroit.

37 38 PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

The STEAM Engine Poetry Slam:

Hosted by Will “The Poet” Langford and Natasha T. Miller, The STEAM Engine was a unique fusion of poetry and science.

From the functions of the medulla oblongata to the science of sound waves, premier spoken word artists from across the region explored a range of scientific topics as they competed for a $1,000 grand prize.

Audience members took on the role of determining the winner, and over 40% of the audience was between the ages of 15 and 25.

39 40 The Intersection Series Ecological Lullaby of the Rouge:

Using the nature-based artwork and transforming the artwork from garden Attendees joined Science Gallery Detroit; floodplain. Participants used macro lenses themes presented in the exhibition tool to audio instrument. environmental scientist, Julia Sosin; and to explore the environment up-close and Parallels and Peripheries as a starting bio-artist, Bridgett Francis-Quinn for an examined aquatic macroinvertebrates. The This Intersection event feature artists point, this talk will explore how artists evening of nature inspection. The event collected footage was projected on a big Ash Arder and Susan Goethel Campbell, and scientists utilize nature to push the commenced at sunset in Detroit’s Rouge screen, along with recorded sound bites; and Michigan State University assistant boundaries of our understanding of the Park discovering the sights, sounds and participants learned what it revealed professor Bjoern Hamberger.hampton. intersection of art, nature, and technology and objects of the riparian zone and about the water quality. University CUPSI team discussed the in our society. Special Performance by hustle of college life and how they hustled Ash Arder who will use sonic collaging their way to becoming the 9th-ranked and non-linear storytelling to “play” college slam team in the world. her sculpture Broadcast #3, effectively

41 42 Madiha Tariq SGD – ADVISORY BOARD – (LEONARDO GROUP) Deputy Director at ACCESS Community Health and Research Center. She is the former education and diplomatic research associate at the Embassy This year saw us begin the process of forming two key advisory groups that we hope of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. can inspire and inform developments over the coming years. We are working on our youth advisor group (more soon on that development). Here we highlight our “Leonardo” group, intended to draw together a group of distinctive and exceptional people from a Megan Halpern range of backgrounds – science, technology, the arts, media, education and business Assistant professor at Michigan State University. Her work draws on (https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/leonardos). The function of this group is to catalyze design research, cultural studies, science and technology studies, and thought, inspire themes and concepts for coming seasons, suggest ways we can mentor communication studies. These varied interests stem from a desire to an ever more diverse group of young people into a wide range of leadership positions, understand the value and role of creative, interdisciplinary collaboration. and ensure we make striking connections between the arts and sciences.

Jody Ingle Bjoern Hamberger Design consultant and experienced board member of several institutions Assistant professor at Michigan State University in the College of throughout metro Detroit. He is skilled in Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Natural Science Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His works consist Design Management, Sketchbook Pro, Alias Studio Tools, and Concept of synthetic biology and plant natural compounds. His research was on Development. He possesses a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused display at Science Gallery Detroit’s 2019 exhibition DEPTH. in Industrial and Product Design from College for Creative Studies.

Beronda Montgomery Hendrik Schatz MSU Foundation Profession in the Department of Molecular Biology and Director of Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics at Michigan State Molecular Genetics. The Montgomery Lab pursues a common research University. Hendrick’s latest research aims to understand the nuclear theme of understanding how individuals perceive, respond to, and are processes that occur naturally in the cosmos. His work includes impacted by the environments in which they exist. reproducing the same exotic isotopes that are created in extreme astrophysical environments such as supernovae, hydrogen explosions Rachel Frierson on neutron stars and white dwarfs, and the crusts of neutron stars. Rachel Frierson is the director of programming for the Conservancy. In this role, Rachel oversees and implements the diverse program offerings Mark C. Wallace that activate the Detroit Riverfront and Dequindre Cut to create a world- President and CEO of Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. In his role, he class gathering space for three million visitors annually. Prior to joining manages leasing for large developments and launched Wallace Detroit the Conservancy in 2013, Rachel worked with two different Chicago- Guitars, which manufactures guitars using reclaimed wood from based community development organizations, the Chicago Loop Alliance abandoned homes in Detroit. and Division Street Business Development Association, and at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, New York.

43 44 Dawn Shoultz Opel Ulrike Heine Assistant Professor of Digital Media and User Experience in the Is a visual studies scholar and curator with a focus on the intersection of Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan visual arts and ecology. She completed her PhD with a thesis on climate State University. A qualitative researcher and lawyer who studies how to change-related imagery. From 2013 to 2016, Heine was on the curatorial improve patterns of communication in both legal and health clinics. She staff of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, an institution working at the focus on the use of information technologies for clinical service delivery intersection of science, technology, and the arts. improvement and payment reform efforts. Sissel Tolaas Paul Pangaro Sissel is an artist who resides in Berlin. Since 1990 she has focused Professor of the Practice in the Human-Computer Intersection Institute her work on smell and communication, moving within disciplines of at Carnegie Mellon University. Paul Pangaro’s career encompasses science, art, academia and industry. She has performed smell studies design. His work “Design and Conversation” poses the suggestion “Why for companies and institutions including BBC London. design is conversation and why conversation for every design.” He is currently professor of the practice in the Human-Computer Interaction Tarah Rhoda Institute Carnegie Mellon University. Manager of the SVA Bio Art laboratory, where she researches live materials and explores the intersection of art, science and technology. Elizabeth LaPensee Her most current project investigates the remarkable relationship Assistant professor of media and information writing, rhetoric and between chlorophyll and hemoglobin. American Cultures at Michigan State University. Her experimental animations and interactive works have been curated at festivals and Leigh Graves Wolf museums including imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, LA Leigh Graves Wolf is teacher-scholar and a Clinical Associate Professor in Skins, American Indian Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Leigh Native Arts. teaches with the Educational Leadership and Innovation EdD program and is a faculty fellow with the Office of Scholarship & Innovation. Yewande Pearse Her work centers around online education, K12 teacher professional Neuroscientist based in Los Angeles. Yewande is a Research Fellow in the development and relationships mediated by and with technology. laboratory of Dr. Michelina Iacovino based at The Lundquist Institute. Her current research interests center on developing stem cell-mediated gene therapy using CRISPR-Cas9, as a treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome.

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SCIENCE GALLERY DETROIT IS PART OF THE SCIENCE GALLERY NETWORK PIONEERED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN.

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