Prof. Michael Balick

Contact

Organisation

The New York Botanical Garden

Department

Job titles

Vice President and Director, Institute of Economic Botany

Based in

United States, Vanuatu, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia

Languages

English, Spanish

Working on daylight in relation to

Why daylight matters in my work

Plants are light factories, producing many of the raw materials used by our society. My interest is in the intersection between biological diversity and cultural diversity relating to plants across contemporary and traditional cultures, the area known as biocultural diversity.

Daylight Academy projects I worked on

Lightbook, Daylight: What makes the difference?, Art installation LEBENSRAUM, Interviews ABOUT LIGHT, The role of daylight for humans, Daylight and One Health

I could also have worked as

Writer

I would have loved to have a coffee with

Louis Lewin

Most beautiful song of all time

Listening to tropical birds

Main discipline

Botany

Other disciplines

Agriculture, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Earth Sciences, Medicine

Fields of expertise

Ethnobotany