SciFest Dubai – Celebrating Science Through the Arts

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

SciFest Dubai may be exactly what it sounds like: a festival celebrating science in Dubai. But there's more to it than that; there's a whole rationale and methodology to think about. SciFest Dubai aims to celebrate science through the arts, in order to improve scientific literacy.
"If you look around you, there's a lot of people who are intimidated by science," explains festival co-founder Rohan Roberts. "That's because of how it was taught in high school."
For many, science is a huge, boring body of information that you have to memorize for a test. The goal of Roberts, and the festival, is to re-think science as a way of being in the world, a way of thinking.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
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0:25.7	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.1	My guest today is Rohan Roberts, director of SciFest, Dubai.
0:33.5	Rohan, how you doing?
0:35.8	Great, good to be on.
0:37.3	Yeah, thanks so much. I know it's, you're far away in Dubai, and
0:41.5	I don't know what time it is there. What time is it? Like midnight or two in the morning? Yeah,
0:46.8	it's half past eight in the evening, and it's very hot. I mean, you know, summer's just getting
0:53.2	started and it feels like you're in a sauna.
0:57.6	But everything's in their condition, so, you know, we're good.
1:00.6	Well, good.
1:01.2	Excellent.
1:02.3	So, yeah, so we're going to talk about your work on SciFest Dubai primarily.
1:06.8	Can you tell listeners what ScienceFest Dubai is if it's not obvious, and what's the goal of the organization?
1:14.4	Sure, yeah. So, Syfest, Dubai is the Dubai Science Festival, which aims to celebrate science through the art.
1:22.4	And it's all about promoting scientific literacy and enlightenment values and steam education.
1:30.3	And if you look around you, there's a lot of people who are intimidated by science.
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