Find the philosophy in and beyond Baboró!
Have you ever thought something wasn't fair? Ever wondered what makes someone trustworthy? Whether everyone finds the same things beautiful? Or if a carrot is alive?
Investigate the ideas we meet every day: the questions that matter to how we live. Join philosophers Dr Michela Dianetti and Dr Lucy Elvis in a welcoming, interactive space with thought experiments, big questions and imaginative activities.
The Thinking Studio also includes a quiet space for thinkers' story time, a wall to capture the big questions emerging from the festival programme and a concept mapping space.
A team of facilitators will support you in exploring and sharing your ideas. Come and join us after a Baboró show if you're left with big thoughts buzzing or drop in any time for some playful thinking together!
This is a drop in space, pop in anytime.
Delivered as part of the project AND (Art Needs Dialogue) funded by Research Ireland, with the support of the Public Philosophy Team and AIRE Research Collective at the University of Galway. Kindly hosted by the Urban Lab, Nun’s Island.
For schools interested in this performance, see baboro.ie/schools for school booking requests.
Dr Michela Dianetti is a Research Ireland Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy at the University of Galway in collaboration with Baboró International Arts Festival for Children. She lectures and researches in Philosophy of Literature and Philosophy for Children. She is the 2022 awardee of the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund Fellowship for Early-Career Scholars by the Iris Murdoch Society, co-curator of the exhibition (Un)Real Ireland on Murdoch’s relationship with Ireland, and has been a visiting researcher at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value. She is the co-founder of AIRE Research Collective, a board member of the Journal Attention, affiliated with the American Weil Society and a board member of the Irish Philosophical Society.
Dr Lucy Elvis is the Director of Public Philosophy at the University of Galway. She teaches and researches on Philosophy of Art and Public Philosophy with a focus on what emerges between art and its audience and between people in dialogue. She is a co-founder of both AIRE research collective and CURO - Thinking for Communities. She is also an art writer and curator.
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