Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations Ideation, Translation, Realization: Seed Idea Group Summaries (2016) / Chapter Skim
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"Great scientists are like great artists. They have a vision of the world," said Don Ingber of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, during the opening session of the 2015 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative conference.
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Half of the conference participants were scientists and half were artists. As in previous years, participants were divided into small groups and asked to address such problems as using art to influence environmental monitoring, and music and dance to engage human collaboration in different ways.
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Yet there's much to be learned by plumbing the depths of discomfort. Dancer and choreographer Liz Lerman challenged conference participants to do just that when she had the full group engage in what amounted to improvised dance among amateurs.
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Our bodies have incredible things to tell us." She started what was a simple walking exercise, having people move through space and introduce themselves to others around them. Then she asked them to interpret certain scenes or thoughts with their bodies.
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