Walking Toward the Future Lecture

DATE: March 20
TIME: 5:30-7 p.m.
PRICE: Members: $14.95 | General Public: $29.95

Tickets on Sale Jan. 31

Minute by minute, step by step, we make small decisions that can have a significant impact on our lives, and the world around us. Join us as we consider our conscious and unconscious actions and take a journey to envision a positive climate future. We will complete this session in contemplation together as we walk the labyrinth created by artist Ann Morton for the Desert Botanical Garden exhibit, Toward 2050. Ann Morton, Jamey Wetmore and Dr. Timothy Long will serve as co-facilitators. One cocktail or mocktail and light snacks included with ticket purchase.

About the Facilitators

Ann Morton is a textile-based artist, educator and social practitioner ​living in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work utilizes traditional fiber techniques as conceptual tools for aesthetic, social communication to examine a society of which we are all a part — as bystanders, participants, victims and perpetrators. She is driven by a desire to employ her art as a voice for advocacy. The work reflects her own handwork, but also orchestrates the handwork from a variety of community participants through public interventions that seek to harness the power in the act of making for social purpose.

Jamey Wetmore is an associate professor at the ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society. His work focuses on the ways in which all of us shape our collective futures through the decisions we make. He’s studied how the Old Order Amish make decisions about technology, works with nano scientists and engineers to help them find ways to increase the positive impact of their work, and reflects on the trials and tribulations of his day-to-day use of an electric car in his blog – A Tech Skeptic Goes Electric.  He has also been an active volunteer at the Desert Botanical Garden for almost a decade.

Tim Long received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech, and he subsequently joined both Eastman Kodak and Eastman Chemical companies for eight years upon graduation. He joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech, where he also served as the Director of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute until 2019, and received numerous awards for his innovative work. In 2020, Professor Long accepted an interdisciplinary faculty position at Arizona State University (ASU) where he launched and now leads the Biodesign Center for Sustainable Macromolecular Materials and Manufacturing (BCSM3). His research focuses on emerging technology with a lens of earth sustainability.