Q&A with Ilan Chabay
April 22nd, 2013 - Posted in 2013, Dimensions, Q&A by Emily Schuster
Interviewed by Joelle Seligson
This interview appeared in the May/June 2013 issue of Dimensions magazine.
“It was a case of professional schizophrenia—but a very useful one,” laughs Ilan Chabay about his varied career path. He has dabbled in the natural sciences, exhibition design, museum administration, and higher education. Currently professor and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, Chabay advocates taking a similarly multidimensional approach to addressing global change. Here he advises on how science centers and museums can become key partners in transdisciplinary research for sustainability, as he’ll discuss at the 2013 ASTC Annual Conference in Albuquerque this October.
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