Friday, July 31, 2009

TED.com: Margaret Wertheim



How do you merge mathematics, feminine and domestic craft, environmental activism, and coral?
Margaret Wertheim presents her project of crocheting coral to visualize the connection between hyperbolic geometry and organic forms. Here she is advocating new teaching approaches that bridge play, cerebral concepts, and artforms in an effort to discover new forms of presentation and representation within various scientific fields, expressing her belief that creative processes serve as catalysts to the evolution of ideas.
CLICK HERE to view her discussion.

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