July 1 @ 19:30 - 21:00
£3 – £6
The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geopolitical unrest – just a few of the issues causing turbulence in today’s world. We are living and working in times that are complex and fast changing.
Jean Boulton, building on her new book, The Dao of Complexity (2024: De Gruyter), will explore the remarkable resonance between the science of complexity and the cosmology of Daoism. She will argue that embracing a view of the world as processual, contextual and emergent will support us in “making waves” – making a difference in a world of increasing connectivity, polarisation and fragility.
Dr Jean Boulton is a fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a visiting academic in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Bath. She is a renowned expert in complexity science and its application to the social world and she is keenly interested in how to apply these ideas both to transform and engender resilience.