Theme: The World Unravelled

Our first Salon of the year will explore how our institutions, communities and nations have become undone in the face of broad and fundamental challenges and shake-ups. Has our understanding of the "global" been irreversibly altered? How have we adapted, and how can we continue to adapt, to these rapid changes?

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Magdalene College
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB30AG
United Kingdom

Feifei Zhou

Artist and Architect

Feral Atlas is a collective work of more than a hundred scientists, humanists and artists, united in examining the non-designed effects of human infrastructures. Feral Atlas is curated and edited by anthropologist Anna Tsing, visual anthropologist Jennifer Deger, environmental anthropologist Alder Keleman Saxena and architect Feifei Zhou, in collaboration with architect Lili Carr and an international network of makers. It is developed in association with AURA (Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene) and James Cook University, Australia and will be available, open-access, from Stanford University Press digital publications at www.feralatlas.org in November 2020. Feifei Zhou is a Chinese-born artist and architect. She holds an MA in architecture from the Royal College of Art and currently lives and works in London.

Lili Carr

Architect

Feral Atlas is a collective work of more than a hundred scientists, humanists and artists, united in examining the non-designed effects of human infrastructures. Feral Atlas is curated and edited by anthropologist Anna Tsing, visual anthropologist Jennifer Deger, environmental anthropologist Alder Keleman Saxena and architect Feifei Zhou, in collaboration with architect Lili Carr and an international network of makers. It is developed in association with AURA (Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene) and James Cook University, Australia and will be available, open-access, from Stanford University Press digital publications at www.feralatlas.org in November 2020. Lili Carr is an architect with an undergraduate background in physics. She holds an MArch from the Architectural Association and currently lives and works in Amsterdam.

Peter Kirkham

Cambridge college gardener and 'The Grateful Gardener'

Peter Kirkham is more widely known as the grateful gardener. Since 2007, he has been using his position as a Cambridge college gardener to inspire people to walk on the grass and pick the flowers. In January this year he had major heart surgery to correct a congenital valve defect. What followed was a long recovery, aided by daily walks around his neighbourhood, and an obsession with Cambridge-city front gardens. Under lockdown, flowers, gardens and rainbows became an important part of his healing process.

Pietro Liò

Professor at Department of Computer Science & Technology at the University of Cambridge

Pietro Liò is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on developing Artificial Intelligence and Computational Biology models to understand diseases' complexity and address personalised and precision medicine. He is currently focused on Graph Neural Network modelling.

Rakoen Maertens

PhD Candidate in Social Psychology at University of Cambridge

Rakeon Maertens is a PhD Candidate in Social Psychology at Downing College (University of Cambridge) and Head Delegate to the UN of the World Esperanto Youth Organisation. In both his research and his UN projects he aims to create a better understanding between people and across polarised groups.