2014-2015 POPScience
POPScience was a 2 year long EU grant which allowed - among other activities - to setup interactions with poets through three phases:
July 2014: 6 European poets interact with CERN prominent scientists for a few days.
- PopScience poets visit CERN video recordings
- Poems are translated in several languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish, German) by members of the World poetry academy
- The e-books edited by Subway-Edizioni are published online shortly after the Researchers' night evening at FNAC, Geneva.
Fall 2014: a public poetry competition, where 6 prices are given in the globe, in Feb 2015.
- CERN bulletin article by Susanna Wong
- CMS blog congratulating the winner
- A parallel competition at the collège intenational de Ferney
2015, "year of the light": invitation of new European poets
- see CERN bulletin article by Susanna Wong
- September 2015, visit of the poet Gao Xingjiang (Nobel price 2000) [ see Idea Square actors behind the scenes ]. The University of Geneva hosted "Faits d'ombre et de lumière - Regards croisés du poète et du physicien sur la réalité humaine" , a conference given by the poet Gao Xingjiang (Nobel price 2000) and Sergio Bertolucci (Director of research at CERN) [ Event recording ]
Warning: both POPscience and Subway-Edizioni web sites are gone, links are broken.
2019 ORIGIN
We are exploring the possibility to bring this currently unused material back to life as a source of inspiration, for the LHCP 2019 Puebla exhibit. To develop further, we will need to consider
- Design: slideshow, reading, e-book printing, mix with images... Which support in which event/exhibit context ?
- Translation in more languages: through a collaboration with local poets... or existing links with the international poet society ?
- Creativity: can we consider organising local and specific competitions, either to create new poems or to develop art pieces inspired by the current ones ?
- Links: with theatre performances, music ?
