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Episode 3 with Claudia Biçen
Host: Ilsa Jones
Medi-Culture Conversations is the official podcast of the Medi-Culture Festival, celebrating health, science and wellbeing in the heart of London Bridge this Spring. Across a series of short episodes, we go beyond the festival programme to explore the ideas, research and people behind the events. From gut health and nutrition to creativity, movement and laughter, each conversation uncovers the science and stories shaping how we understand wellbeing today.
Hosted by Team London Bridge, the podcast features interviews with festival facilitators, researchers and practitioners. Together, we explore how culture, creativity and community can support healthier lives, and why London Bridge has long been a place where medicine and innovation meet. Whether you are attending the festival or simply curious about the intersection of health and culture, Medi-Culture Conversations offers a space to slow down, learn something new, and connect with the ideas behind the programme.
In this episode, Ilsa is joined by Claudia Biçen, a British-American artist whose work weaves together science, myth and illustration, to explore what happens when we stop treating scientific facts as things to be understood, and start experiencing them as things to be felt. Together they reflect on Claudia’s recent workshop, Reimagining Science Through Story and Art, and the ideas at its heart, from microchimerism and deep time to migratory patterns and photosynthesis. They discuss what it means to listen closely to the stories that scientific facts carry, and why meeting the world as an unfolding web of relations, rather than an object of study, might matter deeply for our health and wellbeing.