At the end of the month (February 28 – March 1) the Center for Science and Society is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on Narratives in the Natural Sciences and Humanities in NYC. I had the pleasure to be part of the organizing committee and I am really looking forward to the great lineup of speakers.
I was also tasked with the difficult job of coming up with an illustration for the event. We wanted something that could represent the universality of narratives, without being tied to a specific period, format or genre. We eventually settled on this concept of narratives as ‘building blocks’ of human culture, which in my mind was a reference to Jerome Bruner’s Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (one of my favorite books on the subject).
This wasn’t an easy decision and I still really like some the other sketches I made for the event. Hopefully one I will have a chance to finish them all.
Here is a sneak peek into my sketchbook, which one would you pick?