About the Salon
The Art + Science Salon is an event series, research group, and network of scientists, artists and folks interested in crossing disciplinary boundaries.
In this space, ideas are not contained within traditional frameworks. Conversations might leap from the mathematics of plant growth to the music of galaxies or from the brushstrokes of a botanical artist to the complexities of quantum physics. The Salon creates opportunities for both established voices and emerging talents to engage in dialogue, that challenges and to inspires.
Founded in 2020 at Trinity College Dublin we are now expanding from a virtual format and podcast series to live, in-person Salons. With institutional support and a Public Engagement Fund from Creative Futures Academy, 2025 has seen us break new ground. These gatherings, both online and offline, are an invitation—an open door for the curious. The Salon has become a living, breathing network of ideas, poised to spark new forms of knowledge, creativity, and projects. The question is not where art ends and science begins, but how, together, they will enable the futures we wish to inhabit.
About Us
Dr Amelia McConville holds a transdisciplinary PhD in Visual Poetry & Visual Poetics with Neurohumanities from Trinity College Dublin, where her pioneering doctoral project was funded by the Irish Research Council’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, jointly supervised across the School of English and Institute of Neuroscience. She also received a first-class honours BA in English Literature & Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin in 2017. Across her research career she has worked at the intersection of science and society, and educated students of all ages from a wide range of backgrounds in literary modernism, contemporary Irish literature, and poetry studies. She currently works across European Research projects with the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts & Humanities (DARIAH-EU), and is based in Berlin.
Dr. Autumn Brown is a research fellow and lecturer with dual appointments at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Galway. She has published across numerous fields including science education, science and society, and equitable access to education. Her research interests include decolonial science education, histories of scientific knowledge and immigration, STEAM pedagogies, and cold war art-science innovations. Her current work explores the ways in which technologies of war were transformed into technologies of queer liberation and ecological conservation, and she is always working on transdisciplinary non-formal learning, and open science. She holds a masters degree in Science Communication and Public Engagement from The University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Science Education from Trinity College Dublin. She previously worked for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
