The Garden of Secrets - Screening & Discussion
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Through millions of years of evolution, the structures and processes of organisms have resolved many of the engineering and environmental challenges facing the modern world–we just need to look, observe, and learn.
Botanical gardens are “idea libraries,” places where a wealth of these solutions have been assembled near the doorsteps of the scientists, engineers, and designers tackling these issues.
Join us for the Canadian premiere of The Garden of Secrets. Created in partnership with UBC Botanical Garden, this fascinating documentary explores the influence of plants on architecture, design and engineering. The screening will be followed by a discussion.
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum will be yours to explore for the evening, including a guided tour of extensive research collections housing over 2 million specimens.
Schedule:
6:00pm - What is Biodiversity? museum tour
6:30pm - The Garden of Secrets screening in the auditorium
7:00pm - Panel discussion with invited guests
Nathalie Attallah, Director
Nathalie Attallah is of Lebanese and Greek origin; she spent her childhood in Alexandria, Egypt and adolescence in Copenhagen, Denmark. For her higher education, Nathalie moved to the UK and earned a BSc in Psychology at the University of East Anglia and then an MSc in Digital Anthropology at University College London. Most recently, her film “Language of Aroma” was part of a campaign that premiered at SXSW 2019, NYCxDesign, LA Design Festival and San Francisco Design Week. Her first film “Water on Sand” has screened at DOXA in Vancouver and at the Beirut International Film Festival in Lebanon. Nathalie is interested in exploring social issues around inclusivity and representation.
Kelty McKinnon, Landscape Architect
As a landscape architect and partner at PFS Studio, Kelty specializes in the creation of unique, innovative public spaces that are both culturally and ecologically rich. Her work spans across scales from intimate gardens to cultural precincts, and includes waterfront parks, streetscapes and public plazas.
Christine Lintott, Architect
A practicing Architect and a Biomimicry Professional, Christine is committed to bringing nature inspired design to the building industry. She is a passionate translator of nature’s genius, communicating across disciplines to define, discover and create relevant solutions to infrastructure challenges.
Daniel Mosquin, Research and Biodiversity Informatics Manager at UBC Botanical Garden
Daniel has been observing and documenting plants through writing and photography for almost two decades at UBC Botanical Garden, where he is presently the Garden's Research Manager. He is also an educator and presenter, with the guiding principle that the best way to understand a subject is to be responsible for teaching others correctly.
Organizer Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Organizer of The Garden of Secrets - Screening & Discussion
Fall in love with the diversity of life as you explore 20,000 square feet of exhibits, visit our teaching lab, and stare through the jaws of the largest creature ever to live on Earth—the blue whale.
The museum puts UBC's natural history collections, with more than two million specimens, on public view for the first time. Among our treasures are a 26-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended in the Djavad Mowafaghian Atrium, the third-largest fish collection in the nation, and myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around British Columbia and the world.
Through a combination of exhibits, hands-on activities, educators’ resources, public presentations, and community and cultural engagement, we are working to increase understanding of the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. Just as important, we connect the world-renowned scientists at the adjacent Biodiversity Research Centre with the public. This unique combination of world-class, university-based research and beautiful, compelling exhibits makes the research conducted by UBC scientists more accessible and more relevant to the public.
