Making and Knowing

Council on Science and Technology presents this exciting public lecture featuring Hideo Mabuchi, a 1992 Princeton Alumnus and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. A physicist by training, Mabuchi explores a nexus of conventional scientific research in quantum engineering, traditional craft (as a dedicated ceramist), aesthetic philosophy, new materialism and integrative education.

What’s really at play and what’s really at stake when we talk about bridging art and science in contemporary higher education? In this lecture Mabuchi will offer a personal perspective forged from fervid efforts to reconcile his manual sidelines in traditional craft, which began surreptitiously as lines of flight from the institutional values of academic science, with cerebral commitments to analytic thinking and integrative speculation—commitments that ineluctably permeate the studio and lure him back towards the lab. He will build his case from concrete correlates including 1990s travel alarm clocks and hierarchical data compression, redox potentials and the materiality of color, and Asian diaspora and indigo memristors using lots of images, one graph and no equations.

This event is free and open to the public. In-person or Zoom registration is required.

SPONSORS
Council on Science and Technology
Princeton Materials Institute
Visual Arts - Lewis Center for the Arts
Physics