"The Institute For Figuring is an organization dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts. - http://www.theiff.org/
"According to the organization's website, the Institute For Figuring is "dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques. From the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding and graphical models of the human mind, the Institute takes as its purview a complex ecology of figuring."
Since its founding in 2003 by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim the IFF has staged public lectures in Los Angeles and New York on subjects such as tiling patterns, hyperbolic space, early computational devices, and tensegrity structures. The Welsh writer Merrily Harpur has written that "the duty of artists everywhere is to enchant the conceptual landscape." The IFF was founded on the principle that science, mathematics and other techno-logical pursuits may also achieve this goal. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_For_Figuring
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