From Extinction to Empathy | Michael John Gorman | TEDxMünchen

Michael John Gorman is Founding Director of BIOTOPIA (biotopia.net), a new museum of life sciences and environmental development in Munich, as well as Professor of Life Sciences in Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Previously Michael John founded the Science Gallery in Dublin, a university network dedicated to igniting creativity and discovery where science and art collide. In his talk he shares why empathy plays a decisive role in preventing the 6th mass extinction.


TEDxMünchen BACK TO THE FUTURE 10. November 2019 Münchner Kammerspiele Michael John Gorman is Founding Director of BIOTOPIA (www.biotopia.net), a new museum of life sciences and environmental development at Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich, as well as Professor of Life Sciences in Society at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Previously Michael John founded the Science Gallery in Dublin, a university network dedicated to igniting creativity and discovery where science and art collide. In 2012 he founded the Science Gallery International to develop further galleries in London, Melbourne, Bangalore, Venice, Detroit and Rotterdam. Michael John was previously Lecturer in Science, Technology and Society at Stanford University and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT. His new book Idea Colliders: The Future of Science Museums will be published by MIT Press in 2020. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx