Cultural Compass: May 28
Downtown Miami: Walk or Ride the Metromover
Paraphrasing Dickens, Miami is a tale of two cities, or ten.
Miami, paraphrasing Dickens, is a tale of two cities, or ten.
Riding the Metromover can be a cultural experience, an immersion in diversity. You might come in contact with a picturesque and hygiene-challenged homeless man arguing implacably with a younger self, and college kids from MDC or the New World School for the Arts, detached from the present through cordless earphones. Business associates, who for some reason tend to travel in trios, stay by the doors. A homemaker coming from the supermarket is overwhelmed by one too many bag. Tourists talk Congolese, Chinese, Danish and French. One father, perhaps an investment banker on his day off, pretends to be cool and whistles Gershwin’s Summertime while pushing the stroller back and forth. You will see construction workers with helmets under the arm, an occasional security officer slightly overweight, an opulent
Science / Meet the Inventors in Residence
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how science takes on the challenges of the 21st century inside the Inventors in Residence Lab. It’s located in the Knight Learning Center. Inventors in Residence, a science prize competition and residency program, chooses early-stage inventions that have both local relevance and global significance in their potential impact.
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Winning scientific teams work in public-facing labs and are available to answer questions on their work, why it matters, their progress and what hurdles lie ahead.
The winners of the first competition are focusing their work on two crucial topics: One, growing corals that are more resilient in warmer oceans, which features Dr. Andrew Baker and Dr. Rivah Winter. Two, detecting environmental carcinogens in near-real time, with the goal of helping people avoid them and thereby reducing dangerous exposure, featuring Dr. Prasoon Diwakar.
Guests can meet these inventors and observe their work every day from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the new Inventors in Residence Lab, located in the Knight Learning Center, Level 5 of the North Wing. More information: Frost Museum of Science
Art / Fútbol and Contemporary Art
An exhibition on the subject of soccer, or fútbol, and its interactions with societies around the world. Artists working in video, photography, painting, and sculpture aim to create an experience where the viewer/spectator can engage with the art form of soccer — a place where social, cultural, and political issues of identity, nationalism, globalism, and spectacle play out vibrantly.
April 13–September 2, at PAMM.
