Art, Nature and Science: Imagining other worlds

On 28 April 2025, OMF hosted global cultural icon Brian Eno and environmental novelists and storytellers Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull and JM Ledgard at the Sheldonian Theatre. We were treated to the premiere of ‘Life Wants to Live’: a braided reading underscored by original music composed by Brian Eno for this occasion. The performance stimulated interdisciplinary academic discussions about the biodiversity crisis and its solutions, with anthropologist Nayanika Mathur (of Crooked Cats), ecological economist Dr Nicola Ranger and political scientist Thomas Hale (of Long Problems).

Speaker: Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard

Event date: 28 Apr 2025

Event time: 14:00 - 16:00

Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ

Event page at OMF

Event page at U Oxford

Recording of the event (YouTube)