En kväll full av idéer och intryck, nya vyer och spännande möten.
Vi vandrar från polarisens djupa tidslager, genom havens mystik och vidare ut i universums oändliga vidder, samtidigt som vi bjuds in till att uppleva en dans född i dialog med kyrkorummet, planeten och universum.
Om evenemanget:
Fredagen den 17 oktober får vi tillsammans med TEDxGöteborg samlas under Luke Jerrams Gaiaglob i Fässbergs kyrka – en svävande jordglob, sju meter i diameter, som långsamt roterar ovanför altaret. I detta kosmiska ljus möter vi röster och uttryck som leder oss genom vetenskap, konst och eftertanke:
- En fotograf öppnar isarnas arkiv och visar hur polarområdena minns vår planets historia – och vad det säger om framtiden.
- En matematiker visar de fördolda krafterna i havet som bär livet längs kusterna.
- Ett astronomiskt perspektiv kommer vidga vår horisont och hjälper oss se alltings storhet.
- Dansare från GöteborgsOperans Danskompani låter oss uppleva ett verk som fötts i dialog med kyrkorummet och jordklotet ovanför oss.
Denna kväll med TEDxGöteborg kommer att ge dig en upplevelse som både utmanar och inspirerar - en påminnelse om att världen är större, skörare och vackrare än vi anar.
Välkommen att köpa din biljett för kvällen här (49 kronor):
Next Up: TEDxGöteborg Inviting you to Earth, Ice, Oceans, Space
Speakers
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Julie Rowlett
PhD, Professor of Mathematics
Julie Rowlett, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, brings mathematics into dialogue with the natural world. She demonstrates how ocean currents and plankton can be understood through mathematics, knowledge that is crucial to understanding the systems that sustain life on Earth. Originally from the US, Julie earned her PhD at Stanford and worked at several European universities before making Gothenburg her home. She now directs the engineering mathematics program at Chalmers and continues to bridge theory with practice as a researcher, entrepreneur, and inventor.
Lukasz Larsson Warzecha
Photographer & Cinematographer
Lukasz Larsson Warzecha is a photographer and science communicator who has worked on six continents, from polar expeditions to deep-sea dives. His images and stories on climate and the environment have been published in Science Magazine, The New York Times, Oceanographic Magazine and The Guardian. He has collaborated with the European Space Agency and the European Commission to make complex science accessible to the public. In 2024, together with his wife Ulrika, he created Stories Trapped in Ice, an exhibition with ESA that combined their photography with satellite imagery to highlight the story of polar change.
Malcolm Fridlund
PhD, Professor of Astrophysics
Malcolm Fridlund obtained his PhD at Stockholm Unviersity and worked at ESA for the next 25 years. He worked as a study and project scientist for scientific space missions of the European Space Agency between 1988 and 2013, when he retired. He was based at the ESTEC facility, Noordwijk the Netherlands. During the 25 years he worked on a number of studies and in the last 15 years he focused on research aimed towards detecting planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. In 2010, he became Adjunct Professor at Leiden in Space Observations of Exoplanets.
Zach Enquist
Professional Dancer
Zach Enquist is a dancer with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and a creator developing his own distinctive dance-theater style. His work, A Very Demure Evening, was recently awarded the “Mind Blown Award” at Gothenburg Fringe Festival 2025, following the recognition of his duet, All Honesty Aside, with 2nd prize at the Hannover International Choreography Competition’s 39th edition.
