Panel: Balance - Unbalance ...and cultural intelligence
Ricardo Dal Farra – Canada – Argentina
Tommy Ayala – Canada
Roger Malina – United States
Adriana Gómez, Felipe César Londoño, Carlos Beltrán & Tomás Londoño – Colombia
Luis Rico – Colombia
It is quite a challenge to recognize our fragility. To think that for food to reach large supermarkets, the necessary events sometimes depend on a complexity that is unthinkable for most consumers. And that, to get high-speed Internet access at home, the string of efficient pieces of technology that goes into it is staggering. Individual actions, and the long series of events that ultimately lead us to have systems that work to help us solve problems, and live better, often raise substantial conceptual—as well as operational—questions for us.
Who can and should inspire new explorations, and bring innovative perspectives and critical thinking on how to actively participate in helping to solve some of our major challenges, such as the consequences of rapid climate change, food security, pollution, energy demand, access to water and our health care systems? We need to develop creative ways to facilitate a paradigm shift towards a sustainable tomorrow. Creative thinking, innovative tools, and transdisciplinary actions could bring about perceptual, intellectual, and pragmatic shifts in that direction.
With this in mind, an artistic-scientific initiative was launched more than a decade ago, aiming to generate a profound awareness and create lasting networks of reflection and action that can address the multiple facets of the growing crises that life on our planet is facing: welcome to the international project. Balance-Unbalance!
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