Ravi Kapur

This episode of Inside EOSC features Ravi Kapur, filmmaker, science communicator and founder of Imperative Space and ArtEO. This special live edition was recorded at the second Innovation Prototyping Lab in Brussels, with colleagues from LUMEN and GRAPHIA, an audience in the room and people joining online. Ravi traces his route from physics through documentary filmmaking and science education to working with satellite Earth observation data. We discuss how educational initiatives grow by fitting into people's working lives, and what it takes to make scientific data useful to the communities it concerns. From farmers to international development organisations, the challenge is often finding a common language and understanding what people need. Through ArtEO, he extends that invitation to artists, giving them room to respond to environmental data through their own practice and emotional reactions. We explore how those encounters can inform scientific work, the infrastructure behind open data, and the environmental costs of collecting and processing it. Ravi reflects on what LUMEN and GRAPHIA could offer through connections between disciplines and human judgement in knowledge discovery. The episode continues after the closing credits with questions from the live audience, opening up a discussion about artistic and scientific rigour, creative disruption, serendipity, and the effect of generative AI on critical thinking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.