How to enable collaboration between science/engineering and art and design

[Roger Malina ( rmalina@alum.mit.edu )]

Dear LASSI Colleagues

I would like to bring to your attention and international initiative that

I am chairing.

http://sead.viz.tamu.edu/projects/white_papers.html

All of us  encounter many roadblocks to develop

the new opportunities that link science/engineering to arts/design/humanities

 In this international initiative we are calling for 'white papers' or short texts that identify problems

and opportunities when one tries to have science/engineering professionals

collaborate with those in arts/humanities/design.

These reports can be very short- one page with one recommendation, or

even utube videos- or longer, They can be written by one person or many.

We are also compiling all the reports written on these issues in the last

twenty years and will be doing a meta-analysis of the previous recommendations.

. We would be delighted if anyone on LASSI would like to submit a short or

longer white paper with recommendations. Please contact me at rmalina ( AT) alum.mit.edu

More details below

Roger Malina

SEAD Network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design announces a

call for White Papers on issues facing the international community

seeking to enhance transdisciplinary collaboration

We are seeking to survey concerns, roadblocks and opportunities, and

solicit recommendations for enhancing collaboration between sciences

and engineering with practioners in arts and design. These position

papers will be submitted as part of a report to NSF and the community

from the SEAD network in the summer of 2013. With grateful

appreciation for US funding, we recognize that activity connecting the

sciences, engineering, to arts, and design is international and,

furthermore, that global involvements are essential in today’s

economy. Therefore we are interested both in what US collaborators can

learn from experiences in other countries, and vice versa, institution

or region specific issues, and also in how to foster collaborations

that bridge beyond regions to nations. Cultural cross-fertilization

via the SEAD network – whether from disciplinary, organizational or

ethnic perspectives – is a vital component of our purpose and goals.

Chair, Roger Malina, Leonardo/ISAST Chair Emeritus, Leonardo Governing

Board Member. Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology at the

University of Texas, Dallas

Co-Chair, Carol Strohecker, Director, Center for Design Innovation,

University of North Carolina system; Professor, Winston-Salem State

University; Chief Research Officer & Instructor, UNC School of the

Arts; SEAD Co-PI

For more information: 

http://sead.viz.tamu.edu/projects/white_papers.html

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science

Foundation under Grant No.1142510 , IS, Human Centered Computing,

“Collaborative Research: EAGER: Network for Science, Engineering, Arts

and Design (NSEAD)