Philip Noble: Visual Storyteller and Itinerant Gladness Scatterer
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(Scotland)
Topology (the science of surfaces)
Topology is where spatial properties are preserved under deformation, but "When is a Coffee Cup Like a Doughnut?" is a far more intresting introduction for everyone aged seven years upwards. Using string, paper, balloons and 3-D models, Philip explores the fascinating mathematical world of topology where stretching and distorting objects produces some amazing results and surprising effects. This presentation involves much practical demonstration and audience participation.
Origami (paper folding)
Philip joined the British Origami Society in 1968, co-founded the International String Figures Association in 1978 and is a founder member of the International Knot Tyers Guild.
He has contributed models to several books and is best known for his discovery of the "flexicube" - a series of eight linked cubes folded from one strip of paper. He especially appreciated simplicity in folding techniques and if the models move in some way, so much the better.
