Hugo Parlier, Professor in mathematics at the University of Fribourg will give a lecture on 4 June 2025 about the beauty of shapes.
How do shapes relate to one another? Where the artist intuitively grasps the balance between forms, mathematicians map out these relationships by incorporating notions of distance and transformation into what they call moduli spaces—vast structured landscapes of all possible geometric shapes.
“Together with Bruno Teheux, in order to sample collective creativity, we imagined the project Life Lines and collected thousands of drawings from around the world. The game Quadratis, designed with Paul Turner, allows us to explore and visualize moduli spaces.”
Both projects will be at the heart of a resolutely interactive talk.