Annual Review 2021-2022

CONTENTS

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Foreword

The Year in Review 2021–22 Public Engagement Mentorship Initiative Media Presence Global Science Gallery Network Financial Reports Governance and Leadership Team Plans for 2022–23 Partners

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Ranjit Kandalgaonkar's Drawing the Bombay Plague exhibited at CONTAGION, 2021.

SCIENCE CULTURE EXPERIMENT

FOREWORD

This year has been a challenging one as the world has grappled with multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. It became clear that there was a need for a space where the public, especially young adults could engage with research and knowledge around infectious phenomenon.

We were relieved that our research festival CONTAGION became a platform for our audience to seek credible expert opinions, ask questions, and engage in dialogue to make sense of what was happening in the world around them. In this way, we could convene an online public space that provided robust research as a public good.

With CONTAGION, we created an archive of 500+ digital resources in the form of games, audio, video and written material that provide different points of entry to understanding contagion, all of which remain freely accessible to the public. We also trained our largest cohort of mediators to date during this time, who conversed with visitors from across the world through the exhibition—not just in English but also in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Our masterclasses, workshops and tutorials became a global platform for the young to be mentored by experts across disciplines.

Given the positive public response, we extended CONTAGION to Phase Two until the end of 2021, engaging over 339,000 viewers. We are proud to share that CONTAGION was reviewed in The Lancet, and it was also selected as a Falling Walls Winner in Science Engagement.

We thank the Government of Karnataka, our Academic Partners, our Curatorial and Academic Advisors, our Content and Programme Partners, our consultants and contractors, and our participating artists and scholars for their support and engagement with our programmes.

We will continue to push the boundaries of public engagement by bringing together the frontiers of research, art, design and technology to speak to the critical challenges of our age.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Jahnavi Phalkey Chair, Board of Directors Founding Director

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

CONTAGION

30 April 2021 – 13 June 2021 CONTAGION PHASE TWO

1 July 2021 – 31 December 2021

31 March 2022 – 31 December 2022

ON THE FRINGE

31 July 2021 – Ongoing

XPERIMENTERS

17 January 2022 – 17 July 2022

CLIMATE: THROUGH YOUR EYES

MY BODY, MY PLANET

23 February 2022 – 16 March 2022

01 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Science Gallery Bengaluru organised its Public Engagement activities entirely online in the financial year 2021-22.

CONTAGION was hosted as a digital exhibition on a platform that presented online experiences designed according to the preferences of digital natives. The platform provided information about the programmes and resources for further reference. To preserve the in-person experience of engaging with our mediators in the physical gallery, we initiated a digital mediation programme. We adapted our training programme for the online space. and for the first time had mediators from across India, engaging with visitors across the world.

We built a dedicated and engaged community with On The Fringe, a series of online programmes developed for the young adults by the young adult members of the Science Gallery Bengaluru team.

We continued our ongoing focus on issues related to the cultural, socioeconomic, and scientific implications of the Anthropocene with our programme, Climate: Through Your Eyes. We also co-created programmes—My Body, My Planet and Millipede Project—in partnership with international cultural organisations.

Our participation in larger events like the Be Inspired series and the Healing Arts Symposium further contributed to our efforts to reach lakhs of new audiences across the world.

EXHIBITION-SEASON

CONTAGION

30.04.2021–31.12.20221

Online at https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/contagion-archive

CONTAGION shares a multiplicity of voices and perspectives–contemporary and historic, artistic and scientific, individual and collective–to support and better understand what we are all living through.

The pandemic has upended our lives and illuminated longstanding challenges. In these unsettled times–much more so for some than for others–trustworthy evidence about what is happening changes rapidly. What we have retrieved from this, our very own moment and in history, are works backed by research that put into relief the reciprocity, empathy, care and knowledge that can develop across disciplines and experiences at different scales.

CONTAGION examines the transmission of emotions, behaviours, ideas and diseases, their fascinating and

sometimes frightening spread and why all of this matters to the lives we hope to lead and the futures we can imagine.

Despite uncertainties, throughout this exhibition’s planning and making, our goal has remained constant: to create an inspiring and informative public platform that encourages the asking of better and more relevant questions.

Academic Advisors

Mukund Thattai, biologist Sanjoy Bhattacharya, historian of medicine Shahid Jameel, virologist

Curatorial Team

Danielle Olsen, curator Jahnavi Phalkey, historian of science

Content Partners`

Programme Partners

A still from the film Survivors, Arthur Pratt, dir. 2018.

“BEING CONCISE AND SURE WITH DATA BEFORE MAKING INFERENCES IS CRUCIAL IN EPIDEMIOLOGY. BENCHMARKING OTHER COUNTRIES IS A GREAT WAY TO ACQUIRE EFFECTIVE PRECAUTIONS AND WAYS TO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS.”

Jenny Mae O. Decena, Participant in ‘Unpacking COVID-19’

Top: Image courtesy of Stephen Phillips.

Right: Photograph by Sri Loganathan Velmurugan for "Through Your Eyes," CONTAGION, 2021.

“THE POINTS OF VIEWS I HAD ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS COMPLETELY CHANGED AFTER I BECAME A MEDIATOR. THIS WAS PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE INTERACTIONS I HAD WITH THE EXHIBITING ARTISTS, WHO HAD COMBINED DISCIPLINES THAT WE GENERALLY SEE AS DISPARATE. AND THIS BRINGS OUT AN ENTIRELY NEW WORLD OF IDEAS, PROMPTING NOVEL DIRECTIONS OF THOUGHT.

Arkesh Kedar Shenoy, Mediator at CONTAGION

Top: Participants at ‘Edible Elements’ by Elizabeth Yorke, ELEMENTS, 2019

Right: Mediator and visitors conducting experiments at the Testing Table, ELEMENTS, 2019

Visitors said they would like to visit again.

92%

Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5

71%

Visitors said they were exposed to a new way of thinking

Participants

Participants said they were motivated to see the exhibitions

Participants said they were inspired to know more

Sarah Craske's THERIAK | The Disease Map exhibited at CONTAGION, 2021.

“THERIAK IS A MESMERIZING WORK OF ART, WITH ITS RICH HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND THAT IS BOUND TO LEAVE A LASTING IMPRESSION ON ITS VIEWERS.”

Breanne Coelho, Mediator

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

ON THE FRINGE

31.07.2021–ONGOING

355 SERVER MEMBERS | 14 GUESTS INVITED

On the Fringe is our first series on the Discord platform. In this series of programmes, we look at topics situated between borders and in the cracks of our circumscribed world. Boundaries divide and distinguish, but they are also porous and dynamic. Diving into the nebulous space between boundaries, we will speak amongst ourselves and with creative practitioners, researchers, and activists to reflect upon our established world views.

Events at a glance

Comedy: On the Fringe | Sundeep Rao, Comedian

Conspiracies: On the Fringe | Michael Biddlestone, Psychologist and Geeta Seshu, Investigative Journalist

Urban Commons: On the Fringe | Himanshu Burte, Urban Planner and Neha Sami, Urbanist

Open Access: On the Fringe | Anup Kumar Das, Information Specialist and Anand Chitipothu, Technologist

Social media graphics for On the Fringe, 2021–22

“CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS ALL OF US IN VARIOUS WAYS. WHAT I FOUND FASCINATING IN THE RESPONSES IS THAT INSTEAD OF TRAVELLING TO EXOTIC LOCATIONS, THE PARTICIPANTS WENT TO THEIR OWN NEIGHBOURHOODS AND BACKYARDS TO UNDERSTAND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS THEM PERSONALLY. THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT JUST MELTING POLAR CAPS, AND WE NEED MORE PERSONAL NARRATIVES SUCH AS THE ONES SEEN IN THIS PROGRAMME.”

Kalyan Varma, mentor

ANTHROPOCENE

CLIMATE: THROUGH YOUR EYES

01.10.2021 - 14.11.2021 70 SUBMISSIONS | 35 SUBMITTERS | 11 FINALISTS

PARTNERS:

Climate: Through your Eyes was a participatory programme organised during the EU Climate Diplomacy Week ( September 21 - October 17, 2021) to engage youth with the theme of climate change. We invited young adults to respond to five prompts on the theme of climate change with their creative responses in the form of photographs, GIFs or short clips.

A selection of these submissions were showcased on our social media platforms as well as our website. The selected young photographers also had the opportunity to be mentored by Kalyan Varma, an Emmy-nominated wildlife photographer and filmmaker.

“A PROGRAMME LIKE CLIMATE: THROUGH YOUR EYES IS MUCH NEEDED AT THIS TIME BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE IS A PRESSING ISSUE, AND THE PROGRAMME ALLOWS PEOPLE WITH AN ARTISTIC EYE OR A CREATIVE VISION TO BRING A NEW PERSPECTIVE TO THE TABLE.”

Elizabeth McBryde, participant

Photograph by Adhytam Verma for "Climate: Through Your Eyes," 2021.

MY BODY, MY PLANET

23.02.2022–16.03.2022

PARTNERS:

‘My Body My Planet’ (MBMP) is a yearlong, R&D project led by the Natural History Museum and Museum for the United Nations – UN Live and funded by the Wellcome Trust. This work aims to understand how to best engage 18-24-yearolds from a middle-class background in England, China, India, Brazil, and Nigeria with the topic of climate change and health through a country-relevant cultural genre and behavioural science. The aim will be achieved through partnership work across the two institutions, cultural and museum partners, and behavioural science partners with the involvement of a variety of expert voices to create a cultural prototype (e.g. health experts, climate change experts, members of the target audience, cultural genre experts, etc.). We have been involved as Cultural Partners on this project, and have identified stand-up comedy as the cultural genre through which to deliver the message.

Work by participant Shilpi Kumari for Millepede Project, 2021.

MILLIPEDE PROJECT

01.11.2022

PARTNERS:

Millipede is based on the belief that climate change is the responsibility of every individual and that millions of tiny simultaneous steps can become one giant leap. Climate change is having a lived effect on all people. For people living in India and Scotland we are already experiencing disruptive changes to climate and weather. Human homes and natural habitats are disappearing. Millipede will stimulate a global conversation between people from different cultures and lived experiences in Scotland and India.

Millipede is a playful interactive website, where visitors navigate their way through many shoe boxes on virtual shelves. Each digital artwork exhibit for Millipede is created by professional artists working with intergenerational participants from community groups based in Scotland and India.

This project is supported by The Creative Commissions grant from British Council. The aspiration for these commissions is to stimulate global conversations about climate change and to inspire transformational change.

OUTREACH

BE INSPIRED HEALING ARTS SYMPOSIUM

01.11.2021–ONGOING

Project lead: Teamwork Arts

70,00,000 REACH 17,80,000 IMPRESSIONS 16,30,000 VIEWS 5,34,000 ENGAGEMENTS

Be Inspired is an event series organised by Teamwork Arts, which aims to spark conversations on game-changing endeavors in the field of technology, medicine, artificial intelligence, agriculture and more through a series of conversations with established researchers. We supported the outreach and communication efforts of the programme through our social media channels and mailers. Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, Executive Director at Science Gallery Bengaluru participated in a panel discussion on ‘The Future of Medicine’ along with Ashish Tripathi, Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi and Toby Walsh.

14.11.2021 75 LIVE PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS 5000 PROGRAMME VIEWS 25,000 SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT

CONTAGION was shown as part of the launch of WHO's Arts and Health Initiative, ‘Healing Arts Symposium’, which brought experts together from across culture, policy, research, and healthcare to act on the evidence base for the health benefits of the arts. The Symposium was presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and World Health Organization (WHO) Arts and Health Program in partnership with the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium at NYU Steinhardt , the NeuroArts Blueprint, an initiative of the International Arts + Mind Lab at John Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at The Aspen Institute, and the Open Mind Project.

02 MENTORSHIP INITIATIVE

Mentorship is a crucial pillar at Science Gallery Bengaluru, and is guided by our mission to empower young adults. Our Mentorship Initiative encourages non-evaluative, self-motivated, handson learning for young adults through an exposure to research practices to nurture future generations of research pioneers and active citizens.

Our learning programmes are nonformal, experiential, and encourage thinking in action. There are limited opportunities, if any, outside of

institutional walls to engage in handson research alongside experts. An educational and professional system that disregards open-ended exploratory learning without fear leaves little room to make mistakes and underplays the value of processes over outputs.

Xperimenters brainstorming for a programme.

MEDIATOR PROGRAMME

Mediators are integral to Science Gallery Bengaluru’s public engagement programme: our target audience of young adults not only visits and learns but also drives the experience on the exhibition floor.

Mediators engage and provoke visitors into a conversation sparked by our exhibits, events, and learning programmes. They ask questions, trigger debates, tell stories, listen, and facilitate experiences through the exhibition-season.

Our Mediator programme typically draws in local young adults between the ages of 18-28 years from across academic backgrounds, and most are recent graduates. They are brought on board after a rigorous selection process. Each mediator is paid a stipend and expected to participate fully in one exhibition-season with the option to continue to work for more. The training sessions include interactions with scholars and artists to understand the creative processes behind the exhibits as well as handson experiments and demonstrations. A unique Mediator Handbook accompanies each exhibition-season

Mediators participating in CONTAGION, 2021

to detail the exhibits, the programme, and related reading material. It is a growing document to which the Mediators and the programming team add from experience as the exhibition progresses.

Our mediators belonged to a variety of academic and professional backgrounds. Due to their diverse backgrounds, we were able to deliver mediator-led sessions in five different languages—English, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil. Mediators went through multiple training sessions with our team and participating artists and researchers, working on their skills of communication and public engagement.

TRAINING SESSIONS

D Sudev Madhav Divya S Kola

Govind Pattila Harshitha Amar Harshitha Thammaiah Kalyani (Anu) Narayan Karthika Sakthivel Kotapati Nithya Krishna Tadepalli Lishel Pinto Medha Sharma Pranava Nataraja

Priyanka Venkatesh Rahul Keshav

Our Mediators

Aakanksha Sunil

Aarathi Parameswaran Aditya Vijaykumar Amulya Hosur Arindam Sarkar Arkesh Kedar Shenoy Ayush Kovid Breanne Coelho CM Manasvi

Rajalakshmi Rajesh Narayanan Rishan Ahamed Ruchika Gallani S Partheeban

Sai Bhavani. P Sathvik Anantakrishnan Shatarupa Sarkar

Shri Krishna Anand Sriram Mahadevan Sumedha Shukla Syona Baptista Thomas Vaibhavi Kulkarni

XPERIMENTER PROGRAMME

38 APPLICATIONS | 17 SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS | 04 APPLICANTS SELECTED | 21 MENTORS | 80+ MENTORSHIP SESSIONS | 25+ WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, AND TRAINING SESSIONS

Science Gallery Bengaluru’s Xperimenter Programme offers young adults the chance to interact with leading experts working in diverse disciplinary fields. Through a series of workshops, proseminars, and mentorship meetings, the Xperimenters develop skills in writing, communication, design thinking, and more.

Xperimenters are a group of dynamic young adults who advise Science Gallery Bengaluru on our public engagement priorities. Xperimenters are, first and foremost, the ambassadors of Science Gallery Bengaluru who help us stay connected and relevant to the young adult community. They contribute to the selection of themes for future exhibitionseasons as well as the appropriate forms of engagement. They also support the recruitment and training of mediators and lead programmes for community initiatives. Science Gallery Bengaluru provides them with opportunities to connect with our Leonardos, a network of senior experts, and the other young leaders at our sister galleries in Atlanta, Detroit, Dublin, London, Melbourne, Venice, and Rotterdam.

This gives them exposure to multiple viewpoints and a chance to voice their worldview to a global community.

Xperimenters are selected for a one-year term through an open call, seeking proactive young adults based in Bangalore who understand the challenges and interests of their age group. They are effective communicators and have prior experience in public engagement. The Xperimenters demonstrate a spirit of fearless questioning, risk taking, and push boundaries of creativity in their life choices.

Xperimenters

Arjun Yadav

Jyotsna Iyer

Samyukta Prabhu

Snehaja Venkatesh

Mentors

Abhishek Hazra, Artist Ajith Parameswaran, Astrophysicist Abhinav Anand, Economist Anjum Hasan, Writer and Literary Critic

Xperimenters facilitating for the programme Earth 2052: Hot or Not, at the Future City Festival, 2022, Bangalore Creative Circus.

Arundhati Raja, Theatre Practitioner

Chandrika Grover, Arts Consultant

Gautham Dayal, Mathematician Gautam Menon, Biophysicist

Iype Chacko, Architect

John Mathew, Historian of Science Karthik Ramaswamy, Science Communicator

Kartik Shanker, Ecologist

Kaushal Verma, Mathematician Kavita Singh, Art Historian

Rajesh Renganathan, Architect

R Ramanujam, Computer Scientist

Sanjeev Jain, Psychiatrist

Sarah Hyder Iqbal, Science Engagement Consultant Shashi Thutupalli, Physicist

Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Communication Designer Surabhi Sharma, Filmmaker

03 MEDIA PRESENCE

CONTAGION Phase Two completed on 31 December 2021. The exhibition-season was well received with over 3,67,000+ viewers and 8,100+ programme participants. The exhibition was covered in 60 national and international media publications including The Lancet, Forbes International, The Week, Financial Express, and Down to Earth.

CONTAGION has also been selected as 1 of 20 Winners in the category of Science Engagement at Falling Walls Berlin.

The Lancet on CONTAGION

“WHEN IT TOOK SHAPE, IT BECAME AN EXPANSIVE EXAMINATION OF THE SPREAD NOT ONLY OF DISEASES, BUT ALSO OF THE TRANSMISSION OF BEHAVIOURS, IDEAS, AND EMOTIONS IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY.”

04 GLOBAL SCIENCE GALLERY NETWORK

SCIENCE GALLERY INTERNATIONAL

The Science Gallery Network contributed to the online programming of the Ars Electronica Festival. The Network series (EN)COMPAS, which launched with an aim of interrogating the impact of art and science coming together, took place. The open call for HOT AND BOTHERED: The 2022 Science Gallery Youth Symposium launched.

Science Gallery Atlanta

Under the leadership of Deborah Bruner, Senior VP for Research at Emory University Atlanta. Planning continues towards a re-curated version of Science Gallery London’s HOOKED exhibition for May–September 2022, featuring expanded local programming from Atlanta and US based artists and researchers.

Science Gallery Berlin

Science Gallery Berlin brings together TU Berlin's excellent academic research

with the thriving art and design scene in Berlin. Berlin is a perfect city for Science Gallery: its rich cultural past and the present create endless opportunities to engage the local community with leading thinkers in art and science internationally. The Rapid Residency programme was launched with an aim to nurture ArtScience collaboration and support artists, scientists, researchers, explorers and makers alike to develop and nurture their ideas followed by another new artist-in-residence program Kunst der Verschränkung [Art of Entanglement] with the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data.

Science Gallery Detroit

SG Detroit’s exhibition TRACKED AND TRACED opening in September 2021, explored the myriad ways surveillance impacts our society, and encouraged us all to explore how we can work to enable more ethical and equitable practises of seeing and being seen. Science Gallery Detroit’s director, Devon Akmon, was also appointed

View of Science Gallery Dublin's exhibition BIAS, 2022.

as director of the MSU Museum and the 2021 edition of SCIENCE OF GRIEF was presented in association with the MSU Broad Museum.

Science Gallery Dublin

Gerard McHugh, Dean of Development and Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin took up the role of Acting Director of Science Gallery Dublin.

SYSTEMS was a unique, limited-edition publication, designed and produced by Science Gallery Dublin. It marks the evolution of an exhibition SG Dublin had been planning to showcase in person - this COVID-adapted exhibition-in-abox is a reimagined way of exploring and untangling the many complex systems, both visible and invisible, Science Gallery Dublin's RAPID RESIDENCY programme was chosen as a finalist for Science Engagement project of the year by “Falling Walls”, the World Science Summit held in Berlin in November 2020. A second round of grants in 2021 focussed on supporting people of colour in Ireland to nurture

their creative practices. Science Gallery Dublin's podcast, “In These Strange Times” has been nominated for a 2021 Event Industry Award in the Best Virtual Charity or Cause-Related Event stream.

Science Gallery Dublin closed its exhibition BIAS and its doors to the public in January 2022.

Science Gallery London

As Science Gallery London is on a hospital campus, it remained closed to the public throughout 2021 for public health reasons, and was used as a vaccination centre.

A new director, Siddarth Khajuria, was appointed to lead the reopening of Science Gallery London.

Science Gallery Melbourne

Science Gallery Melbourne, Arup and Woods Bagot won the “Animated Architecture” category of the Media Architecture Awards, for the digital bricks which form part of the facade of their new building.

Dr Ryan Jefferies took over from Rose Hiscock as director. SGM are in

preparation for their second exhibition, SWARM launching in September 2022, and MENTAL will tour to the prestigious ArtScience Museum in Singapore. SGM launched the Arts x Science residency in partnership with Arts House.

Science Gallery Melbourne was opened to the public in January of 2022 along with its exhibition, MENTAL.

Science Gallery Rotterdam

Science Gallery Rotterdam inaugurated (R)EVOLUTION, in September 2021, and has been extended into Spring of 2022. (R)EVOLUTION takes the diverse COVID-19 research of Erasmus MC as the starting point of a journey of discovery by young people, artists and scientific researchers: what has changed since the outbreak of this virus? Its launch coincided with SCIENCE HOTEL: European Researcher's Night, a night full of science.

Science Gallery Venice

Science Gallery Venice launched digital exhibition Navigare AquaGranda—Una Memoria Collettiva Digitale (Navigating AquaGranda—A Collective Digital Memory), a participatory project of

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Science Gallery Venice, and the European Project Odycceus. Witness by Emma Critchley, Science Gallery Venice’s first EARTH WATER SKY artist in residence, will have its debut at the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Exhibition of Architecture at La Biennale di Venezia.

Future Plans

Conversations continue in South America, Asia and Europe. SGI will continue to develop its various network engagement resources, with further upgrading of the Network’s websites, digital platforms and brand, as well as training and induction of an expanded Network staff.

View of Science Gallery Rotterdam's exhibition (R)EVOLUTION, 2021.

05 FINANCIAL REPORTS

I. EQUITY AND LIABILITIES

CAPITAL FUND

CAPITAL GRANT FROM GOK RESERVES AND SURPLUS

CURRENT LIABILITIES

TRADE PAYABLE

DUES TO MICRO AND SMALL ENTREPRISES

DUES TO OTHER THAN MICRO AND SMALL ENTREPRISES

OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

TOTAL

II. ASSETS

NON-CURRENT ASSETS

FIXED ASSETS

PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

CAPITAL WORK-IN-PROGRESS

LONG TERM LOANS AND ADVANCES

CURRENT ASSETS

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

SHORT TERM LOANDS AND ADVANCES

31-MAR-22 31-MAR-21

264,484,970 218,276,321 260,795,500 218,364,050 3,689,470 -87,729 150,511,722 27,484,202 -840,994149,670,728 27,484,202 414,996,692 245,760,523

260,795,501 218,364,050 -1,363,178 1,937,802 259,432,322 216,426,248 -154,201,191 27,396,473 152,029,052 25,788,049 2,172,139 1,608,424

TOTAL 414,996,692 245,760,523

III. REVENUE

REVENUE FROM GRANT OTHER INCOME

TOTAL

IV. EXPENSES

STAFF SALARIES AND CONSULTANCIES PROGRAM EXPENSES OTHER EXPENSES DEPRECIATION AND AMORTISATION EXPENSES TOTAL

V. EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITITUREOVER TAX (III-IV)

VI. PRIOR PERIOD EXPENSES

VI. TAX EXPENSES

CURRENT TAX DEFFERED TAX TOTAL

VII. EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITITURE OVER TAX (V-VI)

VII. EXCESS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITITURE AFTER TAX FOR THE YEAR

28,460,315 25,374,713 1,688,224 1,742,356 30,148,539 27,117,069

15,504,110 13,626,452 3,461,242 2,285,032 8,670,104 8,785,053 824,859 678,176 28,460,315 25,374,713 1,688,224 1,742,356 1,688,224 1,742,356 1,688,224 1,742,356

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06 GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP

KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW (CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD)

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited. She is a pioneering biotech entrepreneur, a healthcare visionary, and a passionate philanthropist. She is committed to equity in healthcare through access and affordability as she pursues a path of making a difference to billions of lives globally.

Dr Mazumdar-Shaw is the proud recipient of India’s highest civilian honours, the Padma Shri (1989) and the Padma Bhushan (2005). She was also honoured with the Order of Australia, Australia’s Highest Civilian Honour in January 2020.

JAHNAVI PHALKEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Jahnavi Phalkey was appointed Executive Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru in November 2018. Prior to that she was faculty at King’s College London. She started her academic career at the University of Heidelberg, following which she was based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine, France, and at Imperial College London.

Dr Phalkey was an external curator to the Science Museum London, and was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. She is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India and has co-edited Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century.

View of the Science Gallery Bengaluru building under construction.

V RAMANA REDDY

E V Ramana Reddy is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of the 1988 batch. His primary objective in his current position as the Additional Chief Secretary for Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science and Technology is to promote industry innovation and research in the State by mobilising startups, academia, and corporates. Dr Reddy also holds charge of the Department of Higher Education, Government of Karnataka.

Dr Reddy holds BSc and MSc degrees in Agriculture and PhD in Agronomy from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad.

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ROHINI NILEKANI

SENAPATHY GOPALAKRISHNAN

I S N Prasad is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of the 1986 batch.

Over the last 33 years he has served in various departments in the State and Central Government. He is currently the Additional Chief Secretary at the Finance Department in the Government of Karnataka.

Rohini Nilekani is the FounderChairperson of Arghyam, a foundation she set up for sustainable water and sanitation, which funds initiatives all across India. She is Co-founder and Director of EkStep, a non-profit education platform. She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Ashoka Trust For Research In Ecology And The Environment, and serves on the Eminent Persons Advisory Group of the Competition Commission of India.

Ms Nilekani has written for many leading publications such as the Times of India, India Today and Mint. In 2017 she was inducted as Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Well Being Project from 2019.

Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan is the Chairman of Axilor Ventures, an accelerator that helps start-ups during the early stage of their business journey. Mr Gopalakrishnan served as the Vice-Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011, and was one of the Co-Founders.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Mr Gopalakrishnan the Padma Bhushan, the country’s thirdhighest civilian honor. He holds Master’s degrees in Physics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers of India.

VIJAY CHANDRU

A B BASAVARAJU

GOVINDAN RANGARAJAN

Vijay Chandru is an academic and an entrepreneur. His academic career in decision sciences spanned over four decades at Purdue University and at the Indian Institute of Science. Dr Chandru is an (Emeritus) Distinguished Technologist of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Adjunct Professor in BioSystems Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science.

At Strand Life Sciences, he served as Founder Executive Chairman from inception in 2000 till 2018. He is currently associated with the International Institute of Art, Culture and Democracy (IIACD), where he pursues his interests in digital heritage, and with OPFORD Foundation, a platform for orphan diseases and genomic medicine.

A B Basavaraju is the Managing Director of Karnataka Science and Technology Promotion Society (KSTePS) and Director (Technical), Department of Electronics, Information Technology Bio-technology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka. He is the ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of Science Gallery Bengaluru and a member of the company representing KSTePS.

KSTePS aims at serving as a mechanism for supporting the preparation and implementation of policy initiatives of Electronics, Information Technology Bio-technology and Science & Technology and acts as a nodal agency in channelizing the funding and coordinating the programmes of the Department across the State.

Govindan Rangarajan is currently the Director of the Indian Institute of Design. He obtained an Integrated MSc (Hons) degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He then worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley, before returning to India in 1992. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), since 1992.

Professor Rangarajan is a JC Bose National Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He was awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight of the Order of Academic Palms) by the Government of France.

SATYAJIT MAYOR

GEETHA NARAYANAN

Satyajit Mayor is a biologist and serves as the Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore. He obtained his PhD in Life Sciences from Rockefeller University, New York. He has worked in the Department of Pathology at Columbia University and has taught at the Woods Hole Microscopy Course.

Professor Mayor’s academic honours include the Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite (National Order of Merit, France); Foreign Member, US National Academy of Science; Foreign Fellow, EMBO; the TWAS Prize in Biology, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Science, India; the Infosys Prize in Life Sciences; the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award; and Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow.

Geetha Narayanan is Founder-Director of the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology and the Mallya Aditi International School. She is the author and principal investigator of Project Vision, an international research initiative that is looking at the development of appropriate instructional strategies and technology-related tools that foster creative cognitive architectures in young children from urban poor communities.

Dr Narayanan holds a BEd from Bangalore University, pursued MA in International Education from Oxford Brookes University, and has an Honorary Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University. She has dedicated her life to finding and establishing new models of educational institutions that are creative, synergistic, and original in their approach to learning.

ANIL KUMAR P S

P.S. Anil Kumar is Professor of Physics and Dean, Administration and Finance at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

He obtained a doctorate in Physics in 1998 from the University of Pune. He was a Dutch Technology Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Twente, in The Netherlands until 2000. Then he moved to the Max-Planck Institute of Microstructural Physics, Germany with a Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellowship, and, subsequently, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. He joined the Department of Physics of the Indian Institute of Science in 2004. His research interests are in Spintronics, Magnetic Nano-structures, Magneto-transport in Metallic Multilayers and Oxides, Topological insulators, and Magnetic properties of ultra-thin ferromagnets.

07 TEAM

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jahnavi Phalkey

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Head of Infrastructure: M Ganesha

Design Associate: Komal Jain Architects: CnT Architects

Audio-visual and Data Architecture: T2 Consultants

Project Management Consultants: Kris Cooper Project Management Consultants

Construction Contractors: JMC Projects

DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS

Development Manager: Neha Arora Development and Operations Associate: Lakshmi Venkataraman (February 2022 onwards)

Project Intern: Anusha Prakash (January 2022 onwards)

EXHIBITIONS

Programme Manager: Madhushree Kamak Programme Associate: Gayatri Manu Programme Associate: Vasudha Malani Research Intern: Ramya Nadig (January 2022 onwards) Design Intern: Ananthu Suresh (March 2022 onwards)

ADMINISTRATION

Executive Assistant and Project Manager: Yamuna Bhagwat

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE

Accounts Manager: Vartika Saxena Financial Consultants: Sarthena LLP Company Secretary: CS Pramod S Auditors (CAG appointed): MVR and Company Legal Consultants: Mani, Chengappa and Mathur

MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS AND DESIGN

Graphic Design Associate: Shweta Jangir

Audio Visual Communication Design Associate: Sankalp Singh Translator: Usha B K

Communications Associate: Aswathi Pacha (February 2022 onwards)

Communications Associate: Vishaka Kumar (until July 2021)

Communications Associate: Akanksha Singh (September-November 2021) PR Consultant: Shriya Pant (May-June 2021)

Communications Intern: Prateeksha Rout (August-September 2021)

GAYATRI MANU

Programme Associate

M.A., Creative Writing and Literary Arts, Ambedkar University

KOMAL JAIN Design Associate

B. Des., Exhibition Design, National Institute of Design

MADHUSHREE KAMAK Programme Manager

M. Res., Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research M. Des., Information Design, National Institute of Design

M. GANESHA

Head of Infrastructure

Former Engineer-in-Chief, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Karnataka

NEHA ARORA Development Manager

MBA, Xavier Institute of Management Diploma in Community Media, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

SANKALP SINGH Design Associate

M. Des., Film Studies, National Institute of Design Diploma in Commercial Visual Communication (Photography), Light and Life Academy

SHWETA

JANGIR

Design Associate

Diploma in Audio-Visual Production, Symbiosis International University

VARTIKA SAXENA Accounts Manager

MBA, Banking and Finance, Bharathiar University

VASUDHA MALANI Programme Associate

B.A. (Hons.) English PGD English, Ashoka University

YAMUNA BHAGWAT

Executive Assistant and Project Manager

PMI Certified Project Management Professional Master’s Degree, Bharatnatyam

08 PLANS FOR 2022−23

PSYCHE, our exhibition-season exploring the brain and the mind, opens in April 2022 as a fully developed digital exhibition platform. It will utilise the potential of the online medium by integrating the programmes closely with the exhibits, provide digital mediation, and a host of additional multimedia references as part of the “Take it Further” section.

Our Mentorship Initiative has expanded with the introduction of the Xperimenters Programme this year. Our Xperimenters, a group of four dynamic young adults, will conceptualise, develop, and facilitate individual public engagement programmes during PSYCHE.

Our Anthropocene initiative will culminate in CARBON, the exhibitionseason, expected to launch in 2023. CARBON will explore our relationship with this element in its various roles—as an ingredient to life and non-life forms, driver of the industry, and at the same time, the centre of the global environmental crisis.

Finally, we will inaugurate our building and dedicate it to the public in 2023. Science Gallery Bengaluru aims to become a public engagement landmark of the city. Our exhibitions and programmes will continue to connect the institution with its public, especially the youth, inviting them to make it their own space by crafting a vibrant cultural conversation on science.

Science Gallery Bengaluru is a model of a truly public-private partnership as its leadership and support derives equally from the government, the industry, and academia.

We also aim to grow our network of patrons and supporters in the next year, who will help build a public institution for research-based engagement.

View of the Science Gallery Bengaluru building under construction.

Architect's render of the Science Gallery Bengaluru building

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Know More

For more information about Science Gallery Bengaluru, please visit our website at www.bengaluru.sciencegallery.com.

To browse our past exhibitions and to learn more about previous programmes, visit our archives at https://bengaluru.sciencegallery.com/past-exhibitions.

Contact Us

Write to us at info@bengaluru.sciencegallery.com.

Visiting Address

Science Gallery Bengaluru, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine GKVK - Post, Bellary Road, Bangalore 560065 Karnataka, India

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