Can We Start an "Adopt-a-Species" Campaign in our Neighborhoods?
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This talk was one of three presented at The Louisville LASER program is a series of lectures and presentations on art, science, and technology-related projects and an affiliate of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (ISAST). Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities and 5 continents worldwide.
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Inviting Nature, Data and Play into Shared Spaces
Our next Louisville LASER Talk brings together three perspectives on coexistence, resilience, and human nature. Margaret Carreiro presents "Can We Start an “Adopt-a-Species” Campaign in our Neighborhoods?, drawing on urban ecology and reconciliation ecology to show how residents can collaboratively share everyday spaces with other species, scaling conservation down to the neighborhood level. Fran Kremer's "Data Democratization and Climate Action" argues that making climate data accessible and understandable empowers individuals and communities to prepare for floods, wildfires, and heat. Claude Stephens closes with "Three Million Years of Play," provocatively proposing Homo ludens over Homo sapiens, tracing how industrialization and commercialization eroded play and risk, and offering paths to restore it.