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Interview with Shamsher Virk – Leonardo Organisation
In this episode of Strange Intelligences, Maggie sits down with Shamsher Virk, Senior Director at Leonardo, to discuss the transformative power of creative and cultural exchange.
Shamsher shares insights from his global experiences in community engagement, public arts, and interdisciplinary collaboration, exploring how exchange across cultures and disciplines can lead to profound personal and professional growth. Discover how these encounters foster new ways of thinking and inspire creative solutions to today’s complex challenges.
Shamsher Virk is the Senior Director for Programs & Operations at Leonardo: The International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology.
He has worked internationally on six continents in as many languages, entering new communities with a sustained commitment to inclusive process, responsive adaptation, and shared leadership. He amplifies the impact of mission-driven organisations with strategic leadership, community engagement, communications, program development, and design.
Shamsher is a United World College graduate and holds a BA in human ecology from the College of the Atlantic with an emphasis on social research methodology and interdisciplinary communication arts.
He has been a fellow with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Emerging Arts Professionals. His creative work includes video production for CounterPulse, sound design for Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre, and an independent performance ethnography of migrant labourers on a U.S. dairy farm.
Interview by Dr Maggie Buxton, Director of AwhiWorld and video production and editing by Jarred Taylor.
Background Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
www.pearsoncollege.ca — United World College international high school
www.coa.edu — Higher education in human ecology
www.counterpulse.org — Community-based experimental performance space involved in placemaking/placekeeping in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood
www.zero1.org — Transdisciplinary art and technology network pioneering new models for international exchange
www.leonardo.info — New home for ZERO1 inside of the International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology
Image provided by Shamsher Virk
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This interview is part of our Strange Intelligences Lab
