“Learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else..”
Leonardo da Vinci
The
DAvinci Network
Born precisely on the 500th death anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci, the DaVinci Network is a global movement designed to explore, optimise and promote many-sided human potential at the individual, organisational and societal levels.
The world of disciplinary silos is over. The DaVinci Network aims to catalyse a cultural paradigm shift, away from hyper-specialisation and ‘silo culture’, towards the encouragement of connection-making between different fields, disciplines and cultures. We do this through a number of initiatives and programmes including:
The Polymath Learning Experience
What is the DaVinci Network?
MARTIN KEMP
Professor Martin Kemp FBA is Honorary Chair of The DaVinci Network.
Kemp is a British art historian and exhibition curator who is one of the world's leading authorities on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. The author of many books on Leonardo, Kemp has also written about visualisation in art and science, particularly anatomy, natural sciences and optics.
Since 2008, he has been emeritus professor of art history at the University of Oxford, before which he was a professor of Art History there (1995 2008) and held posts at the University of St Andrews (1981 1995) and the University of Glasgow (1966–1981). He is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, an honorary Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy.
WAQAS
AHMED
Waqās is Founder & CEO of the DaVinci Network.
He is considered a world authority on multidisciplinary thought and practice, and is author of the internationally acclaimed book The Polymath (Wiley 2019).
He is Founding Faculty at the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow at the Open University Business School, where he explores interdisciplinary approaches to leadership, management and innovation.
With a background in art, science and international affairs, he has been called a “modern renaissance man” by various publications.
A Polymathic Advisory Team
The DaVinci Network has assembled some of the world's leading multidisicplinary thinkers and practitioners to support our work on various projects.
Dr Merritt Moore
Ballerina
PhD Quantum Physics
Dancing with Robot
Harvard Artist-in-Residence
Prospective Astronaut
Paul Gladstone-Reid MBE
Classical Composer
Builder of Youth Charities
Social Entrepreneur
Imperial College Composer-in-Residence
Omran Matar
Lawyer
Deal-maker
Linguist
Speaking Consultant
Dr Shama Rahman
PhD Cognitive Science
Musician
Actor
Tech Entrepreneur
Dr Jasmine Pradisitto
PhD Physics
Artist & Sculptor
Environmental Activist
The DaVinci Graduate Internship Programme
Our internship programme is a great opportunity for current students and graduates to experience being part of a vibrant startup on a mission to break down silos. Below are some of our brilliant interns, some of whom continued with the DaVinci Network after the end of the programme.
