Visualizing the Invisible: Art as a Lens for Scientific Discovery

Host Institution	Université Paris-Saclay
Start	2025-04-01 18:00:00
End	2025-04-01 19:00:00
Duration	1 hour
Mode	Online
Location	Online
Target Groups	Academic Staff; Administrative Staff; Master students; PhD students; Post-docs; Public; Researchers; Undergraduate students
Contact Person	Sanda Boucheron and Csilla Ducrocq boucheronsanda@gmail.com,csilla.ducrocq@universite-paris-saclay.fr

The lecture is meant to draw attention to the importance of art in education, with an emphasis on scientifically oriented curricula/education. Creativity is key in scientific discovery and art is responsible for, and credited with its development. Art has long been neglected and kept aside, judged unnecessary in the scientific world, yet has historically had a primordial role in science (and humanity for that matter). The great scientists are the ones who, due to their creativity, manage to unlock and expose the invisible to the world.