CURRICULAR CONNECTIONS
INITIATIVE
ART AND ENGINEERING SPRING 2020
Malcolm MacIver, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering continued his ongoing partnership with artist Dario Robleto. Robleto serves as the McCormick School of Engineering and Block Museum of Art Artist-at-Large. Robleto connected remotely with MacIver’s students to discuss his ongoing artistic work around the idea of empathy in scientific and medical narratives. “Artists are provocateurs. They are people who expand your thinking, transform, reveal, provoke. In our work with Dario Robleto we wanted someone curious. As scientists, Dario is our Socrates, challenging us to go beyond and ask different questions.” – Julio M. Ottino, dean of Northwestern Engineering
Dario Robleto
PARTNERSHIP
CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY TRANSFORMATION SPRING 2020
Melissa Simon, Director of the Northwestern Center for Health Equity Transformation, and a Northwestern Medicine Obstetrician and Gynecologist, has been caring for pregnant patients infected with the Covid-19 virus. In spring 2020, The Block began working with her team to develop a series of summer discussions for student health equity fellows using works of art from the Block’s collection focused on art and healing. “I believe in the power of coming together as a museum and a Center located in a medical school to heal our city through conversations stimulated by works of art and with artists”
Dario Robleto, The First Time, the Heart (Umbilical Cord, First Gasp, Cutting of Cord, 1886), 2017.
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– Melissa Simon, Director of the Northwestern Center for Health Equity Transformation
