Pushkin House presents a new edition of Seven of Clubs – an interdisciplinary event series on the cross-section of arts, sciences, society and entrepreneurship.
The unique format of this info-tainment salon will allow guests to hear speakers candidly share insights into their area of passion and expertise within the intimate setting of Pushkin House.
The event series aims to ignite curiosity, forge collaborations and celebrate strangeness. Bringing people together over in-depth stories of hard work, artistic expression and intellectual curiosity will provide a friendly forum for inspiration, discovery and human connection.
Seven of Clubs has been hosted quarterly by Zima Bar in Soho. Since its launch in 2015, it has brought together over 80 speakers including poets, cyborgs, sperm scientists, digital artists, archaeological choreographers, speculative designers, copyright lawyers, librarians and many more.
about the speakers
Kimbal Bumstead is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London. His work spans from painting and drawing to performance, video documentary and sound art. He is interested in abstraction as a form of storytelling, and the act of mark-making as a tool to tune-in to sensory and embodied experiences. His multi-layered artworks are traces of his travels into imaginary landscapes, while his participatory mapping projects explore subjective narratives and re-imaginings of spaces and places.
Dominic Ryder is a philosopher of physics at the London School of Economics undertaking a PhD studying quantum field theory applied to black holes, having previously studied at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, where he also worked on issues in the philosophy of time and the philosophy of science. He will be speaking about the philosophical problem of the arrow of time, which is an unsolved mystery in physics and philosophy about how we can explain the fact that we experience time in a direction, given that our laws of physics are directionless.
Emanuela Maggioni is an expert in smell perception and multisensory perception. She is co-founder and CEO of OW Smell Made Digital, a VC-funded start-up that opens new frontiers in digitising scents and designing scent-based applications. She has a PhD in cognitive psychology with 45+ publications, and she is a Research Fellow at University College London’s Department of Computer Science and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Emanuela is passionate about odours, emotions and novel engineering solutions applied in interactive mixed reality environments and AI perfumery. Her previous work includes academic and industry-led projects for Benetton Group, Facebook/Oculus VR, ERC Excellence Scheme, and collaborations in developing immersive content, between them the award-winning Tree VR, Fly VR, Forager VR and Time Detective AR.
Marco Springmann is a Professor in Climate Change, Food Systems and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is co-director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health. He holds a co-affiliation as Senior Researcher on Environment and Health with the Evironmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Marco conducts multi-disciplinary research that connects food systems, climate change, and public health. His research themes include the impacts of climate change on food systems and health, impacts of food systems on health, the environment and livelihoods, and policy options to support transitions towards healthy and sustainable food systems. His research has been published in leading journals, including Nature, Science, The Lancet, The BMJ, PNAS and others. He has contributed to high-level reports, including those of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and the Global Nutrition Report.