{"id":1447,"date":"2021-07-09T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/the-ruskin\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T14:27:11","slug":"tomorrows-world-today-ruskin-art-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/the-ruskin\/2021\/07\/09\/tomorrows-world-today-ruskin-art-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow’s World Today: Ruskin, Art and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to The Ruskin\u2019s blog: the place for articles, stories and views from The Ruskin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We are returning to the blog for our new season\u2019s programme, Tomorrow\u2019s World Today: Ruskin, Art and Science.<\/strong> This summer, The Ruskin has partnered with the Royal Society for the 2021 edition of Summer Science, a week-long festival celebrating cutting edge UK science.<\/span><\/p>\n

From 8th July, explore two digital exhibitions co-curated by The Ruskin\u2019s Director Professor Sandra Kemp and the Royal Society, Head of Library, Keith Moore. Both exhibitions are part of The Ruskin\u2019s combined research and exhibition programmes on Google Arts and Culture and introduced in the post Cloud Perspectives<\/strong><\/a>, written by Sandra Kemp, for the Royal Society blog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the blog post Cloud Perspectives<\/strong> here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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From the first photographic images of glaciers, to experimental studies of aerial perspective, to Ruskin\u2019s classification system for Alpine geology, Painting with Sunlight: Ruskin and Science<\/strong> highlights drawings, paintings and daguerreotypes from Lancaster University\u2019s Ruskin Whitehouse Collection, alongside works by Victorian scientists from the Royal Society archive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Explore Painting with Sunlight: Ruskin and Science<\/strong> here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ruskin attended the Royal Society Soir\u00e9e in 1862 for astronomer Warren de la Rue\u2019s lecture on the total eclipse of the sun. The Royal Society Soir\u00e9es: Highlights from the Summer Science Exhibition<\/strong> looks back to the origins of the Summer Science festival in the interplay of the arts and sciences at these spectacular displays, from the 1840s to-date.<\/span><\/p>\n

Explore The Royal Society Soir\u00e9es: Highlights from the Summer Science Exhibition here.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Arthur Severn, Thunderclouds, Val d’Aosta 1884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These exhibitions open our year-round programme of digital exhibitions and events. Join us in October for the Library and COP26 Festivals at Lancaster Unviersity. Encompassing exhibitions, events, research and learning, Tomorrow\u2019s World Today will explore Ruskin\u2019s farsighted contribution to scientific innovation, and his contemporary relevance to pressing social, cultural and environmental concerns. Ruskin was a polymath and his works capture the explosion of knowledge resulting from the 19th century voyages of discovery, which shaped our scientific understanding of the natural world today. Two years in the making, the programme builds on the 2019 exhibition Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future<\/strong>, which you can revisit via virtual tour.<\/span><\/p>\n