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STEAMTOSTEAMaswellas
STEMtoSTEAMRogerMalina
Director,ARTSCILAB,UniversityofTexasatDallasDirectorofResearchandDesignProfCassiniNazir
ProfKathrynEvans,MusicDrEunAhLee,ScienceEducation
Jason,Brogden,LynxHighSchool,Dallas
Mynarrativetoday• AfewwordsabouttheArtscilab westarted3yearsagoatUTDallas• TheUScontextonSTEMtoSTEAM
•Myprovocation:• STEAMtoSTEMaswellasSTEMtoSTEAM• Howthearts,designandhumanitiescanworkwithSTEMtoredesignscienceitself
• Thescientificmethodneedsredesigningfortheproblemsweareworkingontoday
• Scientificcultureneedsredesigningtocouplebettertotheneededsocialre-design(design4.0)forasustainableglobalcivilization
• SomeSTEAMcollaborationtools:ARTECA,CloudCurriculumProject
ArtScilab @ ATEC University of Texas at Dallas
• Opened 2013• Research that requires collaboration between artists,
designers, scientists, engineers, humanities researchers• Experimental Publishing • STEM to STEAM and now STEAM to STEM• Cultural Timeliness ( why now ?)• Society Urgency ( justify cost of collaboration )
Is Science in Trouble ?• 1945 « Science the Endless Frontier » report,
Vannevar Bush• "New frontiers of the mind are before us,• and if they are pioneered with the same
vision, boldness, and drive with which we have waged this war
• we can create a fuller and more fruitful employment and a fuller and more fruitful life."--FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTNovember 17, 1944.
• This vision of science: science for the winning of “wars”
• War on Cancer• War on Drugs… rather than co-design !!!
TheUScontext..some events..• 20yearsagotheUSNationalAcademiesissuethe“BeyondProductivity”reportaddressingthenewareasofresearchthatcoupledtothe‘arts’(creativeindustriesinEurope)
• 10yearsagotheUSnationalsciencefoundation,theUSnationalendowmentfortheArtsandnationalendowmentforthehumanitiesconvenedworkshops
• Recognising thegrowingcommunityofpracticesthatbridgesthe“arts”,sciencesandengineering,anditsimpact
• Inabilityofagenciestofundtransdisciplinary/transagencyinitiatives• TheworkshopstriggeredanumberofthingsinUS
• JohnMaedacoinedSTEMtoSTEAM,led tothe“STEAMcaucusincongress”• NSFfundedSEADreport(Malinaetal.)identifiedkeyenablingareas• TriggeredformationoftheInnovationCollaborative– thatbridgesprofessionalsocietiesinarteducation,scienceeducationandotherrelatedprofessionalsocieties
UnderWay• USNationalAcademiesStudyonIntegratingtheArtsandHumanitiesintoSTEMinhighereducation(ChairD.Skorton,SecretaryofUSSmithsonian)
• ReportDueendofthisyear.• FinalKAFKIconference/KeckFoundation:1millon$seedmoney• USNationalAcademies/Sackler Conference:March2017atNAS,DC.• Creativity&Collaboration:RevisitingCyberneticSerendipity”50th• “BenShneiderman,RMalina,DCox…Organising committee• WhatarethebenefitsofSTEAMtoresearchinscienceandengineering• Speakersfromacademia,industry- SaraDiamond,Jasia Reichardt• ProvocationfromShneiderman:DoweneedtocreateaUSNationalAcademyofArt/Design?ElectartiststoAcademiesofScienceandEngineering?
InEurope• ECSTARTSinitiative
• Leonardo/OLATSispartoftheFEAT(artistsincompanies)– seeyouatArs Electronica…• MoreRecently:CreationofUKRI:UKResearchandInnovation• http://www.ukri.org/our-organisations/•
"A primary role of UK Research and Innovation is to fund research intoscience, technology, humanities, social science and innovation.
• We will maximise impact from the research we fund, with three keystrategic strands:
We will push the frontiers of human knowledgeWe will deliver economic impact and create better jobs
We will create social impact by supporting our society to becomestronger, healthier and more resilient."
• ???????????????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at least humanities !
RE-DesigningthescientificMethod:“reinventingScientificIllustration”
• In/beforetherenaissance‘illustration’wasakeywaytodiscovernewknowledgebothintheartsandsciences.
• Beforetheinventionofphotographyartistswereusuallypartofscientificteams(egHumboldt)
• Mathematicshasalwaysusedillustrationasadiscoverymethodology- 1990ssawemergenceofvisualmathematicsusingdigitalmedia
• Embodiedcognitionresearchre-inforces theargumentfortheimportanceof‘illustration”
Wedon’thaveacluehowtorepresentbigdata:Rethinkingscientificillustrationthroughembodiedcognition?Visual,sound,haptic,performative…
RedesigningScience:Improvingthe“thescientific‘method”• Hasevolvedsteadilyoverthecenturies• Evolvingconceptsofcausalityandhowtodemonstratecausalconnections
• “Alchemy”A+B>C• NewtonA“causes’Blinearcausation-‘reductive’method
• 19th C.StatisticalMechanics:collectivephenomenaratherthanindividualobjects
• QuantumMechanics-• Complexityscience/emergence/chaostheory• SimulationsasExplanations–youcantwriteanequationforclimatechange
• Artists,gamedesigners,designersasexperts
ChangingroleofMathematics:theendoftheory?• Boorstin:“EpistemologicalInversion”- wehavegonefrombeingdatapoorandmeaningrich,todatarich/meaningpoor
• EndofTheory• KathrynHayles:retrodiction vsprediction• Eg climatechangetheoriesverifiedonpastdata,economics,ecological systems
• Emergenceofpatternrecognition,AI,DeepLearningmethods
• Cyberscientists arenow‘making’discoveriesthatcannotbeexplainedbyhumans- nopredictivetheories
Redesigningthesocialembeddingofscience• HelgaNowotny,fm PresidentEuropeanResearchCouncilcallfor“sociallyrobustscience”
• SETIathomeopenedupageof‘CitizenScience”movement
• Hacking,Making,Co-DesignSpaceaslociofdiscovery,innovationandinvention
• OpenData,OpenScience• Reinvention/redesignofthe‘amateur’(LevyLeblon,Stiegler)‘amatorat”
• Trans-disciplinaryandTrans-socialcollaboration……….
• BenShneirderman callfornew‘lawsofrobotics”….dataminingascognitiveextraction
Rethinkingthewayscienceistaught
• Transdisciplinaryaswellasdisciplinarycurricula
• Embodiedlearning• ScienceofLearning• Trainingofteamcreativity
• Teamsasexhibitinggenis
• TrainingtheImagination• ScienceFictionPrototyping• ………
ARTECA.MIT.EDU multi-medialiteratureaggregator&transdisciplinaryresearchcollaborationplatformAgated‘commons,Hybrid“openaccess”FreeaccesstoanyonewhocontributestoContent(authors)Quality(peerreviewers)
Pertinence(editorialadvisors)300Mitpress books,Leonardojournalarchives,computermusicjournal..Collectionavailableforsearchengine,datavisualisation research,collaborationtoolsetc
AnnouncingtheLeonardoARTECA‘CloudCurriculum’• InitiatedbyPaulThomasaspartofLeonardoEducationandArtForum,LEAFworkshops..Project directorProfKathrynEvans,UTD
• Firstphase:http://www.utdallas.edu/atec/cdash/• CDASH“CurriculumDevelopment’inArts,SciencesandHumanities.• 150curricula,initiallistingofprograms..currently beingrelaunched• Curriculumsharinginagatedcommons• Anyonewhocontributesacurriculumcanaccesstheothercontributedcurricula.TrustexchangereIntellectualProperty.Curriculumdevelopmentcollaborationtools.
• ReporttobesubmittedtotheUSNationalAcademiesStudyIntegratingartsandhumanitiesinscience,engineering “STEMtoSTEAM”
Provocation:STEAMTOSTEM
• Howthearts,designandhumanitiescanworkwithSTEMtoredesignscienceitself
• Redesigningthescientificmethod• Redesigningthesocialembeddingofscience
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