<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple">Hello all,</div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple">Please see the below advertisement for the Science Communication Mini-Workshop this Friday.</div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br></div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple">You SGSPD Committee</div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br></div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br></div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br></div><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">You’re Invited: Science Communication Mini-Workshop this Friday, August 21<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Dear TRIUMF Community,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Theoretical physicist turned science communicator/journalist/designer/artist<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""> <a href="http://sciartica.net/biography/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">David Harris</span></a> (more info on David below) has just arrived at TRIUMF for a two-week artist residency spanning August 18-31. Feel free to introduce yourself to David (MOB 83) and make him feel welcome at the lab.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">While visiting TRIUMF, David will present a science communication mini-workshop <b><u>this Friday, August 21 from 10:45 am to 12:15 pm</u></b>. All members of the TRIUMF community are invited to attend. Details below.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Lisa Lambert<u></u><u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Head, Strategic Communications<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">What<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Science Communication Mini-Workshop: Designing solutions for communicating science (Scientists are designers too)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Who<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><a href="http://sciartica.net/biography/" target="_blank">David Harris</a>, theoretical physicist turned science communicator/journalist/designer/artist and recently appointed online editor of <a href="http://nautil.us/" target="_blank">Nautilus</a> magazine<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Where <u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">TRIUMF Auditorium<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">For those unable to attend in person, it will be streamed at </span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#b51a00"><a href="http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/8dd0777e4b7a4573a6cda7ba9a1471e11d" target="_blank">http://mediasitemob1.mediagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/8dd0777e4b7a4573a6cda7ba9a1471e11d</a></span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">When <u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">10:45 am to 12:15 pm PT (includes Q&A time)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Friday, August 21, 2015<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Abstract<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Science Communication Mini-Workshop: Designing solutions for communicating science (Scientists are designers too)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“A well constructed theory is in some respects undoubtedly an artistic production.” – Sir Ernest Rutherford<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">“Design is the synthesis of form and content.” – Paul Rand<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">This mini-workshop will present a design-thinking framework that is useful in communicating science in both outreach and scientific publication settings. While seemingly quite different on the surface, the scientific method (primarily analytic) and design methodologies (primarily synthetic) exhibit considerable overlap. Both are used when communicating science, though scientists tend to use a scientific approach.  How this framework differs from a typical scientific approach to problem solving also will be examined.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Communicating science always requires finding solutions to difficult, ill-defined problems.  E.g. an effective popular-level presentation for a general audience is challenging partly because it’s an innately human endeavor with no right or wrong solution. In such cases, “design thinking” frameworks, though rarely used in science and science communications, are a powerful approach to problem solving.  Design thinking consists of a holistic set of analytic and synthetic steps involving various modes of thought and processes. Design thinking is user-centered, collaborative, experimental, and biased toward action. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">In the end we’ll find that scientists are designers too, and that reframing the intellectual toolkits on hand can be useful for scientists when communicating science.<u></u><u></u></span></p><h2><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">About David Harris<u></u><u></u></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><a href="http://sciartica.net/biography/" target="_blank">David Harris</a> is a theoretical physicist turned science communicator/journalist/designer/artist who has worked internationally in print, radio, television, and online. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Symmetry magazine, a particle physics publication, and recently started up the front magazine section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). He has been head of media relations for the American Physical Society and deputy director of communications at SLAC National Accelerator Center. He is currently completing a Master of Fine Arts degree in Digital Arts and New Media at University of California, Santa Cruz, and has just been appointed online editor of <a href="http://nautil.us/" target="_blank">Nautilus</a> magazine.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><br></div><br></div>