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Steps to Avert a Crisis of Imagination
Many things can dramatically alter the world: the wooly mammoth could shape entire landscapes simply by wandering about, a tornado can raze a neighborhood in a matter of seconds. But we humans seem to be particularly unique as one of the few things that can reshape the world based on images in our minds.
The human imagination has endowed us with tremendous evolutionary, biological, and cognitive advantages. But, according to the late Ursula K Le Guin, imagination is often something we relegate to children: “There’s a tendency in American culture to leave the imagination to kids. They’ll grow out of it and grow up to be good businessmen or politicians.” What happens when we stop taking imagination seriously?
The exhibition opens with a first edition of Francis Bacon’s Instauratio Magna from the Posner Memorial Collection. The rigorous process of reducing natural phenomena to its constituent parts—what we now know as the scientific method—has been a tremendous force for breakthrough and discovery. But if we take apart the world, can we still put it back together in meaningful ways? The answers come through a kaleidoscope of speculations, dreams, and wrong turns, featuring works from Kepler, Verne, Jung, Colonna, Schedel, a rare Third Folio from William Shakespeare, and a first translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest.
Visit the new Posner Center exhibit, created by Matt Prindible, Posner Center Intern and student in the Master of Design for Interactions program in the School of Design. This exhibit will be on display December 6, 2019 - May 30, 2020.
Exhibit hours are 1-4 pm, Monday through Friday or by appointment, 412-268-7680.
Read more about the Posner Center exhibit and internship program.
- Date:
- Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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- Time:
- All Day Event
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Posner Center
- Campus:
- Posner Center
- Categories:
- Posner Internship Exhibit