Month: March 2016

This project was a collaboration with local artist and high school teacher, Jason Rogalski. This was part of the Urban Succession project, funded in part by a DNA of Creativity grant, and was exhibited at the Oceanside Museum of Art (though they made us take out all the foul-smelling muck and just display the empty…

As part of Urban Succession, a project coordinated by Jason Rogalski and supported by a DNA of Creativity grant, I collaborated with ceramic artists, Jeremy Gercke and Jonathan Austin. (See news article on SDSU web page). This work was featured in an exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art in April 2014. We went to…

On Pi-day, March 14, 2015 (that’s 3-14-15, the pi-day of the century), I had a party at my house (starting at 9:26 am) to show off the musical instruments I had built, inspired by circular geometry. When I saw the guest’s children playing and interacting with these musical sculptures/instruments, it became obvious to me that…

David Lipson collaborated with a middle-school teacher and artist,  Jason Rogalski, in an art-science educational and public outreach activity called Root Rhapsody. First, Jason helped describe the root system of San Diego’s dominant native shrub, Artemisia californica.   We then set up a hydroponic growth experiment in Rogalski’s classroom to demonstrate the impact of limiting…