Echoes of Climate
ENV/105x, Environment Building, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Event details
12.15 - 13:00 (seminar- in-person and online)
13:00 - 14:30 (discussion - in-person only). In-person attendees are welcome to stay for the discussion.
Scientific representations of environmental change don’t always connect with people in ways that spark real motivation or action. Art, however, can reach us differently through emotion, imagination, and personal experience, making it a powerful way to get people thinking and caring about our changing planet.
In this seminar, we will hear from Dr Jillian Ooi and Dr Nuradilla Fauzi, geographer and biologist respectively from the University of Malaya, as well as musicians from Kuala Lumpur’s award winning gamelan group Rhythm in Bronze, who will share their experience of combining their scientific and artistic practices to communicate critical environmental issues.
They will share their journey from curating Rhythm in Bronze’s first art-science showcase Seruan Setu focussing on seagrass ecology to our latest project Echoes of Climate, discussing the challenges, lessons learnt, and the expected and unexpected outcome of these interdisciplinary, creative endeavours.
The seminar will be followed by an open Q&A and discussion to deep dive into the opportunities, ethics and risks of collaboration and co-planning tangible future network activities.
This seminar is part of a larger collaborative initiative exploring the power of environmental artivism and eco-pedagogy. By combining creative practices and non-mainstream approaches, this initiative creates space to convey social, emotional and affective knowledge about human relationships with the natural world.
Jointly delivered by the YESI Environmental Artivism Network, the YESI International Fellows project Echoes of Climate and partners from the University of Manchester, the session explores the relationality of environmental research and artistic practice.
About the speakers
Dr Jillian Ooi
Dr Jillian Ooi is a marine geographer and Associate Professor at Universiti Malaya whose life's work revolves around seagrass - the overlooked underwater meadows that shelter fish, feed dugongs, and store carbon. She has spent two decades researching, mapping, and championing these ecosystems across Malaysia's coastlines and island archipelagos. But Jillian doesn't stop at science. As the Artistic Director of Rhythm in Bronze, KL's award-winning gamelan ensemble, she believes the arts (and especially the Malay gamelan!) can move people where data cannot and keeps finding new ways to bring the two together.
Dr Nuradilla Mohamad Fauzi
Dr. Nuradilla Mohamad Fauzi is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Biological Sciences (ISB), Faculty of Science and the director of the Glami Lemi Biotechnology Research Institute, Universiti Malaya. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and a Ph.D. degree in Genetics, both from University of California, Davis, USA. She seeks to understand how organisms respond to stress and adapt to the environment by using techniques in molecular biology and biotechnology, towards the goal of conservation of ecosystems and agricultural sustainability. Her ongoing research are clustered in two areas: 1) genetics, stress and reproduction in small ruminant livestock, and 2) coral reef restoration and ecology of marine organisms. When she is not in the classroom teaching or holding a micropipette in the laboratory, she plays music with Rhythm in Bronze, a contemporary gamelan ensemble in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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