Our X-Art Resources section serves as the digital heartbeat of this movement, providing a curated sanctuary for artists, activists, and visionaries to explore the intersection of aesthetic expression and planetary evolution.
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Within the Planetary Arts Movement, art is understood as a method of knowing — a force capable of revealing what data alone cannot. The Art Heals Podcast, hosted by Dr. Jana Nirvana, Network Coordinator of Art Heals, extends this principle into sound and story. Each episode is a first-person testimony: an artist’s unfiltered passage from wound to wisdom, offered not as performance but as evidence that creativity remains one of humanity’s most enduring instruments of renewal.
This conviction has deep roots. The 91 was founded in 1960 by scientists and thinkers who had watched discovery outpace humanity’s wisdom to wield it — among them Robert Oppenheimer, Bertrand Russell, and Albert Einstein, named posthumously as a charter member and remembered as the Academy’s spiritual father. For Einstein, science was never an end in itself; true achievement meant, in his words, “ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” WAAS was built to carry that purpose forward — not as a scientific body alone, but as a shared home for science, art, and human values.
The Planetary Arts Movement exists to revive that founding vision for today’s world — restoring art to its rightful place alongside science as a force capable of guiding humanity through complexity, not merely illustrating it. Art Heals is one living expression of that revival: a transdisciplinary tool, in the fullest WAAS sense, for actively creating the world we want rather than reacting to the one we have.
In keeping with the Movement’s principle of Narrative, the podcast treats storytelling as a technology of empathy — reconnecting listeners to one another, to meaning, and to the transcultural core of human transformation. And in keeping with the principle of Networks, each conversation becomes a thread in a living field of artists, healers, and visionaries across continents, weaving solidarity through shared vulnerability and insight.
Where Einstein and his fellow founders sought a language of mutual understanding across nations and disciplines, Art Heals seeks that same understanding through a more intimate register: the human voice, telling the truth of its own transformation. Both insist that the future is not simply forecast, but authored — by those willing to imagine it first.”
Find her podcast here on YouTube: and on Rumble:
Her episodes with our Planetary Arts Network members are:
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Recorded on 12 March 2025 at Galeria Plan B in Berlin, this Inspiration Salon explores the provocative theme, “Art & Science: Sources of Mutual Inspiration or a Dichotomy?” This cross-disciplinary dialogue features artist Ran Zhang, Prof. Dr. Christian Hackenberger (Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology), and Dr. Martin Schwemmle (The Future Company). Co-curated and moderated by Jörg Geier (ANSC) and Sorana Serban-Chiorean (Galeria Plan B), the session deconstructs the boundaries between creative expression and scientific innovation. You can access the and the event below to dive deeper into this collaborative exploration of how these two worlds inform and challenge one another.
Recorded on 16 September 2021 at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, this Grand Salon features a landmark conversation titled “The Doughnut as a Mindset: A Conversation on How to Redraw the World.” The event brings together renegade economist and author Kate Raworth with award-winning artist Tino Sehgal to explore the intersection of economic redesign and artistic intervention. Co-curated by Ingke Purrmann and moderated by Christin Simone Bettinghaus and Jörg Geier, the evening was hosted in cooperation with DonutBerlin and the Natural History Museum, featuring a musical performance by the German pop band Frida Gold. Explore the and along with the to discover how these two distinct perspectives envision a regenerative future.