Preconference Tutorials

Each participant had varying levels of knowledge on the topics included in this year’s conference. To help create a common language for the meeting, participants were asked to engage in pre-conference learning and to participate in a pre-conference activity related to their seed idea team.

OBSERVATION ACTIVITY

In addition to reviewing tutorials related to the overall conference and seed ideas, attendees were asked to “do” or “observe” something related to their assigned seed idea prior to the conference. The purpose of this exercise was to help participants identify what the problem meant to them and how it fits into a larger context. Participants shared their experiences with their seed idea team members on the first day of the conference. Examples included observing and documenting a visit in a healthcare setting as a patient or volunteer (seed idea C); taking an outdoor yoga class and journaling the experience (seed idea E); visiting a farm-to-table restaurant to uncover details about the origins of ingredients in food (seed idea G); or participating in a citizen science project (seed idea K).

Attendees were asked to consider the following to help them choose what they wanted to focus on for this pre-conference exercise:

1. An activity that directly relates to their assigned seed idea. Alternatively, attendees could choose an activity that would help

2. them gain insight into how someone with a different perspective/background views the seed idea (e.g., scientists working on a challenge about the human microbiome could attend an art installation that uses bacteria as an artistic material).

3. Documenting the activity through journaling, taking photos or video, blogging, etc., to help attendees remember the experience and share it with their teammates at the NAKFI conference.
4. Reflecting on the experience by taking a step back after the activity to get a sense of the big-picture “take-aways”: did this experience help the attendee uncover anything about the seed idea that’s interesting, inspiring, or especially problematic?

Preconference Inspiration Tutorials provided inspiration for the conference through stories about art-science “aha” moments, innovation and creativity, and a behind-the-scenes look at planning the 2015 NAKFI conference. Seed Idea Tutorials related to the individual seed ideas and were intended to inspire creative thinking about these ideas.

PRECONFERENCE INSPIRATION

“Interview with NAKFI Steering Committee Chair David Edwards.” An interview with NAKFI Steering Committee Chair David A. Edwards about creativity, innovation, and planning for the 2015 NAKFI Conference.
https://soundcloud.com/user-807744834/interview-with-nakfi-steering-committee-chair-david-edwards

“A History of the Concept of Creativity.” A presentation by Richard N. Foster, co-chair, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Presidents’ Circle.
https://youtu.be/_8FGhla1hNg

“Rethinking the Norm in Pediatrics.” An interview with David Yager, Dean of Arts, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, and George Dover, Given Professor and Director, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
https://soundcloud.com/user-807744834/rethinking-the-norm-in-pediatric

“The Three-Body Project.” An interview with Greg Laughlin, professor, physical and biological sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Ted Warburton, professor, dance, University of California, Santa Cruz.
https://soundcloud.com/user-807744834/the-three-body-project

“AHA Moment: Cell Tower.” Studio360 Interview with Steering Committee Member Don Ingber, Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University; Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School and Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute. One day he saw a piece of modern sculpture and—Eureka!—he was inspired to make a major breakthrough in biology. Lu Olkowski reports on the unlikely epiphany.
https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/studio360/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F106750%2F

“The Power of Serendipity” CBS News Story. There is nothing like starting off with a bang. In 1867 Alfred Nobel accidentally discovered dynamite after putting a popular but flammable salve on a cut finger. Call it serendipity.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/accidental-inventions

“Why Truly Innovative Science Demands a Leap into the Unknown” by NAKFI Alum Uri Alon. While studying for his Ph.D. in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for scientists to stop thinking of research as a direct line from question to answer, but as something more creative. It’s a message that will resonate, no matter what your field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1U26PLiXjM

“How to Manage for Collective Creativity” TED Talk by Margaret Hill. What’s the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of Collective Genius, has studied some of the world’s most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing—from everyone in the company, not just the designated “creatives.” http://www.ted.com/talks/linda_hill_how_to_manage_for_collective_creativity

“How to Live Before You Die” TED Talk by Steve Jobs. At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks—including death itself.
http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die

“Be an Opportunity Maker” TED Talk by Kare Anderson. We all want to use our talents to create something meaningful with our lives. But how to get started? (And . . . what if you’re shy?) Writer Kare Anderson shares her own story of chronic shyness, and how she opened up her world by helping other people use their own talents and passions.
http://www.ted.com/talks/kare_anderson_be_an_opportunity_maker

“Why It’s Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work” TED Talk by Margaret Heffernan. Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most high-achieving teams. Business leader Margaret Heffernan observes that it is social cohesion—built every coffee break, every time one team member asks another for help—that leads over time to great results. It’s a radical rethink of what drives us to do our best work, and what it means to be a leader. Because as Heffernan points out: “Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do.” http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_why_it_s_time_to_forget_the_pecking_order_at_work#t-76038

National Endowment for the Arts. How Creativity Works in the Brain. http://arts.gov/sites/default/files/how-creativity-works-in-the-brainreport.pdf

SEED IDEAS

Machines and the Human Biome at the Frontier of Medicine Science

Video

“How Our Microbes Make Us Who We Are” TED Talk by NAKFI Alum Rob Knight. Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge—and largely unexplored—role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome,” he says. Find out why.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_knight_how_our_microbes_make_us_who_we_are?language=en

Suggested Reading

Aagaard K, Petrosino J, Keitel W, Watson M, et al. The Human Microbiome Project strategy for comprehensive sampling of the human microbiome and why it matters. The FASEB Journal March 2013;27(3):1012-1022: http://www.fasebj.org/content/27/3/1012.

Grogin D. Microbes in the gut are essential to our well-being. Scientific American 2015;312(3): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microbes-in-the-gut-are-essential-to-our-well-being.

Hafezi H, Robertson TL, Moon GD, et al. An ingestible sensor for measuring medication adherence. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Jan 2015;62(1):99-109: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6861446.

Kembel SW, Jones E, Kline J, et al. Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome. The ISME Journal 2012;6:1469-1479: http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v6/n8/full/ismej2011211a.html.

National Institutes of Health. The Human Microbiome Project: http://hmpdacc.org.

Owyang C, and Wu GD. The gut microbiome in health and disease. Gastroenterology May 2014;146(6):1433-1436: http://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085%2814%2900381-3/abstract.

Schwartz A. The future of medicine is in devices you swallow. Fast Company 14 Jan 2014: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3024773/worldchanging-ideas/you-will-swallow-a-sensor.

Skidmore G. Ingestible, implantable, or intimate contact: How will you take your microscale body sensors? Singularity Hub 13 May 2013: http://singularityhub.com/2013/05/13/ingestible-implantable-orintimate-contact-how-will-you-take-your-microscale-body-sensors.

University of Michigan Health System. It takes a village . . . to protect us from dangerous infections? ScienceDaily 23 July 2015: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150723092123.htm.

Yatsunenko T, Rey FE, Manary MJ, et al. Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography. Nature 14 June 2012;486:222-227: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7402/full/nature11053.html.

Designing a Healthcare System That Promotes Learning and Caring

Video

“Learning Health Systems Overview” by Richard Payne, MD, John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics, Center for Practical Bioethics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azoNiasr44

“What If Our Healthcare System Kept Us Healthy?” TED Talk by Rebecca Onie. Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily healthcare? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing, and heat in the winter? In this presentation, she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that—and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
http://www.ted.com/talks/rebecca_onie_what_if_our_healthcare_system_kept_us_healthy

Suggested Reading

Effken JA. Toward a learning health community: Challenges and opportunities. HIMSS 2015;19(1): http://www.himss.org/ResourceLibrary/GenResourceDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=39764.

Etheredge LM. A rapid learning health system. Health Affairs 2007;26(2):107-118: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/26/2/w107.full.

Etheredge LM. Rapid learning: A breakthrough agenda. Health Affairs 2014;33(7):1155-1162: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/7/1155.full.

Etheredge LM. Toward a science of learning systems: Health, agriculture, education, economics and more. ResearchGate 2015: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/275581478_Toward_A_Science_of_Learning_Systems_Health_Agriculture_Education_Economics_and_More.

Friedman C, Rubin J, Brown J, et al. Toward a science of learning systems: A research agenda for high-functioning Learning Health System. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2015;22(1):43-50: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25342177.

Learning Health Community. www.learninghealth.org.

National Academies Press Learning Health Series.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/13301/the-learning-health-system-series.

Tavernise S. Healthcare systems try to cut costs by aiding the poor and troubled. New York Times 22 Mar 2015: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/health/taming-health-costs-by-keeping-high-maintenance-patients-out-of-the-hospital.html?_r=1.

Imagining New Ways to Use Music in Education and Health

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“Arts in Medicine” by PBS Video. At Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, classical music and arts projects provide another facet of healing for cancer patients through the Arts in Medicine program.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365263318

“Biorhythm: Music and the Body” by Science Gallery Dublin. https://youtu.be/Apw335t5rfg

“The Healing Power of Music” by PBS News Hour. An unconventional approach to recovery and coping, music therapy is a field of medicine capturing new attention due to its role in helping Gabrielle Giffords recover from a gunshot. Correspondent Spencer Michels reports on the versatility of music in a medical setting, but the difficulty of quantifying its effectiveness.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health-jan-june12-musictherapy_02-27

“Inventing Instruments That Unlock New Music” TED Talk by Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey. Tod Machover of MIT’s Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms, from opera to video games. He and composer Dan Ellsey shed light on what’s next.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tod_machover_and_dan_ellsey_play_new_music

“Music Education for Creativity, not a Tool for Test Scores” by NPR. Advocates are pushing for the virtues of music education that canot be measured numerically. Accessed online August 25, 2015.
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/18/279182075/music-education-for-creativity-not-a-tool-for-test-scores

Suggested Reading

Grantmakers in the Arts. Revisiting research: Champions of change. GIA Reader 2012;23(3): http://www.giarts.org/article/revisiting-research-champions-change.

National Institutes of Health. Strike a chord for health. NIH News in Health 2010: http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2010/January/feature1.htm.

Novotney A. Music as medicine. Science Watch 2013;44(10):46: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/11/music.aspx.

Thaut M, and McIntosh G. Music helps heal the injured brain. The Dana Foundation: Cerebrum 2010: http://dana.org/Cerebrum/2010/How_Music_Helps_to_Heal_the_Injured_Brain__Therapeutic_Use_Crescendos_Thanks_to_Advances_in_Brain_Science.

Trappe H-J. Role of music in intensive care medicine. International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science 2012;2(1):27-31: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354373.

Restoring Physical Intuition

Video

“Architecture That Senses and Responds” TED Talk by Carlo Ratti. With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets—like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away—to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.
https://www.ted.com/talks/carlo_ratti_architecture_that_senses_and_responds

“How Not to Be Ignorant About the World” TED Talk by Hans and Ola Rosling. How much do you know about the world? Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health, and income data (and an extra-extra-long pointer), demonstrates that you have a high statistical chance of being quite wrong about what you think you know. Play along with his audience quiz—then, from Hans’ son Ola, learn four ways to quickly get less ignorant.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world

“The Rise of Human-Computer Cooperation” TED Talk by Shyam Sankar. Brute computing force alone cannot solve the world’s problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems (like catching terrorists or identifying huge hidden trends) is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between computation and human creativity.
http://www.ted.com/talks/shyam_sankar_the_rise_of_human_computer_cooperation

“Why the Universe Seems So Strange” TED Talk by Richard Dawkins. Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for “thinking the improbable” by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_our_queer_universe

Suggested Reading

Becker K. Is quantum intuition possible? Nova 2014: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/07/quantum-intuition.

Brownlee J. MIT invents a shapeshifting display you can reach through and touch. Fast Company 2013: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3021522/innovation-by-design/mit-invents-a-shapeshifting-display-you-can-reach-through-and-touch.

Gregoire C. 10 things highly intuitive people do differently. Huffington Post 2014: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/the-habitsof-highly-intu_n_4958778.html.

Nakagaki K, Inamura C, Totaro P, et al. Linked-stick: Conveying a physical experience using a shape-shifting stick. CHI’15 Extended Abstracts 18-23 Apr 2015, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ACM 978-1-4503-3146: http://tmg-trackr.media.mit.edu/publishedmedia/Papers/577-LinkedStick%20Conveying%20a/Published/PDF.

Creating Sustainable Futures in a World Increasingly Dependent on Technology

Video

“Architecture That Senses and Responds” TED Talk by Carlo Ratti. With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT’s Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets—like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away—to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.
https://www.ted.com/talks/carlo_ratti_architecture_that_senses_and_responds

“No Roads? There’s a Drone for That” TED Talk by Andreas Raptopoulos. A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the Internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet thinks so. He introduces a new type of transportation system that uses electric autonomous flying machines to deliver medicine, food, goods, and supplies wherever they are needed.
http://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_raptopoulos_no_roads_there_s_a_drone_for_that

“What Happened When I Open-Sourced My Brain Cancer” TED Talk by Salvatore Iaconesi. When artist Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with brain cancer, he refused to be a passive patient—which, he points out, means “one who waits.” So he hacked his brain scans, posted them online, and invited a global community to pitch in on a “cure.” This sometimes meant medical advice, and it sometimes meant art, music, emotional support—from more than half a million people.
https://www.ted.com/talks/salvatore_iaconesi_what_happened_when_i_open_sourced_my_brain_cancer

Suggested Reading

Reubold T. What does a sustainable future actually look like? Ensia 2014: http://ensia.com/voices/what-does-a-sustainable-future-actually-looklike.

Schwartz A. Four concepts for the future that could create a more sustainable world. Fast Company 2012: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680109/four-concepts-for-the-future-that-could-create-a-more-sustainable-world=.

Developing Programs to Engage and Empower Communities to Address Threats to Ecosystems

Video

“Dance vs. PowerPoint, a Modest Proposal” TED Talk by John Bohannon. Use dancers instead of PowerPoint. That’s science writer John Bohannon’s “modest proposal.” In this spellbinding choreographed talk he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from Black Label Movement. TED Talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal

“Desert Running, a PB&J Sandwich, and the Future of Food” TEDxAustin Talk by Robyn Metcalfe. What connects these topics? A tenacious curiosity to see what you can learn by just jumping in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKklEFTeLnc

Suggested Reading

Arctic Perspective Initiative. The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API), a transnational art, science, and culture working group, intends to direct attention to the global cultural and ecological significance of the Polar Regions. API does this through knowledge sharing, learning from and empowering the local citizens of the North through the creation of open and participatory communications, sensing, aggregation, and transmission technologies and strategies: http://www.artscatalyst.org/arctic-perspective-initiative.

Buytaert W, Zulkafli Z, Grainger S. Citizen science in hydrology and water resources: Opportunities for knowledge generation, ecosystem service management, and sustainable development. Front Earth Sci 22 October 2014;2(26):1-21: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2014.00026/abstract.

“Citizen Science” Encyclopedic Entry National Geographic: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia/citizen-science.

Climate Bubbles. Climate Bubbles was a playful, participatory citizen science project in which bubble blowing games enabled people across the city of Manchester to map air flow and the urban climate. The conceptual process for this project was interesting and uniquely was a cross-disciplinary collaboration where Art Public’s Alfie Dennen collaborated closely with members of Lancaster University, London Met Office and Futuresonic to envision and implement the project: http://artpublic.org/projects/past/climate-bubbles.

Dedicated. A collection of photographs and illustrations by Gulf Coast participants following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Curated by Brandon Ballengée with Aurore Ballengée, Phillip Henken, Mike Madden and Gillian Wilson: http://brandonballengee.com/dedicated.

Extreme Citizen Science. Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites.

Pidot J. Forbidden data. Slate 2015: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/wyoming_law_against_data_collection_protecting_ranchers_by_ignoring_the.html.

Public Lab. Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms: http://publiclab.org.

Scientific American “Citizen Science.” Listing of current citizen science projects: http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/?category=energy-and-sustainability.

We Need Us. Explores what we can learn from experiencing data, rather than simply gleaning information from it: http://www.thespace.org/artwork/view/weneedus.

Wrecked on the Inter-tidal Zone. This exploratory project, led by YoHa and The Arts Catalyst, brings together a network of local people with artists and technologists to explore how local “situated” knowledge of the Thames estuary can be combined with artistic investigations and citizen science techniques to explore and respond to a changing contested estuary: http://www.artscatalyst.org/wrecked-intertidal-zone.

Creating Open Data Culture

Suggested Reading

Autogena L, Portway J. Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium and Most Blue Skies. Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium is an animated night sky that is also a live representation of the world’s stock markets, with each star representing a traded company. Fed by massive streams of live financial information, the stars glimmer and pulse, immediately flickering brighter whenever their stock is traded anywhere in the world: http://www.blackshoals.net/description.html.

Baıly G, Corby T, Mackenzıe J. The Southern Ocean Studies. A project with the British Antarctic Survey that explores how the data it derives from its research in the Southern Ocean could be redeployed in public forms: http://www.reconnoitre.net/bas.

The BRAIN Initiative. Two core principles of the BRAIN initiative are to establish platforms for sharing data; and ready accessibility and effective central maintenance of public, integrated repositories for datasets and data analysis tools, with an emphasis on ready accessibility and effective central maintenance; and validate and disseminate technology. Related to the latter, it is suggested that after validation, mechanisms must be developed to make new tools available to all: http://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/index.htm.

CDP Open Data Portal. Searchable database of open datasets: https://data.cdp.net.

Open Data Institute. The Open Data Institute is catalyzing the evolution of open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It helps unlock supply, generates demand, creates and disseminates knowledge to address local and global issues: http://opendatainstitute.org.

Open Knowledge Foundation. OKF believes open knowledge can empower everyone, enabling people to work together to tackle local and global challenges, understand our world, expose inefficiency and challenge inequality and hold governments and companies to account: https://okfn.org/about.

Open Science Data Cloud. The OSDC enables scientific researchers to easily manage, share, and analyze large datasets: https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org.

Plantwise. Plantwise is a global programme working to increase food security and improve rural livelihoods by reducing crop losses: http://www.plantwise.org.

Project Open Data. Technology evolves rapidly, and it can be challenging for policy and its implementation to evolve at the same pace. Last week, President Obama launched a new Open Data Policy and Executive Order aimed at ensuring that data released by the government will be as accessible and useful as possible. To make sure this tech-focused policy can keep up with the speed of innovation, we created Project Open Data: https://project-open-data.cio.gov.

Roolant L. Data is Culture. The Space (blog). Lisa Roolant talks to Gavin Starks and Julie Freeman of the Open Data Institute about unlocking the collective value of data: http://www.thespace.org/news/view/odifeature.

Shoothill GaugeMap. Shoothill GaugeMap is an award-winning interactive map with the latest British river level, flow, and groundwater data from Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. The extensive network of stations across Britain covers all the major rivers as well as many smaller rivers, streams, and brooks. The data displayed on each of the stations on the map is recorded at 15-minute intervals by the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency: http://www.gaugemap.co.uk.

Vending Machine by Ellie Harrison. A rundown but functional old vending machine stands alone in the Viewpoint Gallery at Plymouth College of Art. Every now and again, without warning, it springs into life—spewing out free packets of crisps for gallery visitors. The machine has been modified. It no longer functions in the conventional way at the whim of snack-hungry students but instead now finds itself in the control of outside forces. . . . Its new nervous system is a networked computer. Hidden out of view and running special software, it continually scans the news on the BBC News RSS feed—commanding the machine only to release snacks when words relating to the recession make the headlines. Whilst seemingly an act of generosity—gifting free food at moments when further doom and gloom is reported—the Vending Machine also hints toward a time in the future when our access to food may literally be determined by wider political or environmental events: http://www.ellieharrison.com/index.php?pagecolor=3&pageId=project-vendingmachine.

Wikidata. Wikidata is a free linked database that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects, including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, and others: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page.

YoHa. Database Documentary. Database Documentary is a long-term investigation that seeks to understand how databases change our conduct. The initial research located itself within health databases and was initiated through discussions with Polly Moseley who was working with Liverpool Primary Care Trust trying to initiate a year of art and well-being. Invisible Airs also grew out of database documentary: http://yoha.co.uk/database_documentary.

YoHa. Invisible Airs. Invisible Airs is an art project by YoHa assisted by Stephen Fortune. This work has been examining the changes in conduct bought about through the relational machine. Invisible Airs is an investigation of Power, Governance and Data informed by the expenditure database of Bristol City Council. The project page presents our investigation and catalogues resources that may be of use to others in investigating power, governance, and data. Accessed online August 28, 2015: http://yoha.co.uk/invisible.

Creating a Learning Educational System to
Identify Benefits of STEM to STEAM

Video

“Playlist (10 talks) Ken Robinson”: 10 TED Talks on Education. Education legend Sir Ken Robinson picked the talks he loves—all full of insight, bright ideas, and, of course, creativity.
http://www.ted.com/playlists/124/ken_robinson_10_talks_on_educ

Suggested Reading

Art of Science Learning. The Art of Science Learning is a National Science Foundation–funded initiative that uses the arts to spark creativity in science education and the development of an innovative 21st-century STEM workforce: http://www.artofsciencelearning.org/what-its-about.

Art-Science Prize. Learning through the passionate development of breakthrough art and design ideas informed by concepts at the frontiers of science: http://www.artscienceprize.org/asp.

Boy GA. From STEM to STEAM: Toward a human-centered education. European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics; 26-28 Aug 2013; Toulouse, France, http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20130011666.

Cernansky R. The Very Model of a Modern Major STEM School. Smithsonian Magazine 14 April 2013: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-stem-school-23163130/?no-ist=&page=2.

Cultural Learning Alliance. STEM + ARTS = STEAM. Report June 2014: http://www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk/images/uploads/STEAM_report.pdf.

Daly J. The power of design-based education: A Q&A with TED ebook author Emily Pilloton. TEDBlogs 2012: http://blog.ted.com/the-power-of-design-based-education-a-qa-with-ted-ebook-author-emilypilloton.

Mitchell WJ, Inouye AS, Blumenthal MS, eds. Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity. The National Academies Press: Washington, DC, 2003: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10671.

National Academy of Engineering. Advance personalized learning. Videos and resources available: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/9127.aspx.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Higher Education and Workforce. Current projects and resources available: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/bhew.

The National Academies Press. STEM Education Collection. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are cultural achievements that reflect our humanity, power our economy, and constitute fundamental aspects of our lives that contribute to our nation’s competitiveness. This collection considers difference school models of STEM education, highlights research on effective STEM education practices, and identifies conditions that promote and limit school success in STEM. These reports are essential for all educators, policy makers, decision makers in school districts, government agencies, curriculum developers, and parent and education advocacy groups: http://www.nap.edu/collection/39/stem-education.

STEM to STEAM. The STEM to STEAM initiative, championed by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is supported by teachers, researchers, policy makers, students, and businesspeople from RISD and beyond. At the heart of the activity, a team of student research assistants works in the Office of Government Relations to apply their firsthand knowledge of Art + Design education to exploring new avenues for STEM to STEAM: http://stemtosteam.org.

Innovation, Creativity, and Action

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“Four Principles for the Open World” TED Talk by Don Tapscott. The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.
http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1

“Somethink Completely Different” TEDxRotterdam Event. On June 4, 2010, Somethink Completely Different happened at TEDxRotterdam in the Netherlands. Great thinkers, doers, and artists shared knowledge, ideas, and passion to the benefit of the community. Attendees were inspired by more than 20 speakers, stories and performances about science, technology, design, art, and everything else in life. Straight from the heart. Honest, strong, bright, and different.
http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/383 AND http://www.somethinkcompletelydifferent.com

Suggested Reading

Gibbs L. Arts-science collaboration, embodied research methods, and the politics of belonging. “SiteWorks” and the Shoalhaven Geographies April 2014;21(2):207-227: http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/21/2/207.abstract.

Lamont T. John Maeda Innovation is born when art meets science. The Guardian 13 November 2010: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/nov/14/my-bright-idea-john-maeda.

Le Laboratoire Cambridge. Le Laboratoire Cambridge is a unique art and design center that invites visitors to explore the experiments and wonders of innovators of all kinds discovering at frontiers of science—from leading artists and designers to chefs and master perfumers: http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com.

Leong KC. Google reveals its 9 principles of innovation. Fast Company 20 November 2013: http://www.fastcompany.com/3021956/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/googles-nine-principles-of-innovation.

Muller L, Bennet J, Froggett L, Bartlett V. Understanding third space: Evaluating art-science collaboration. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art 2015: http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_332.pdf.

Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation. Pioneer Works is a center for research and experimentation in contemporary culture. Through a broad range of exhibitions, performances, arts and science residencies, and educational programs, Pioneer Works seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, foster community, and provide a space where alternative modes of thought are supported and activated in tangible ways: http://pioneerworks.org/about-2.

Simon HA. The Sciences of the Artificial. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA 1996. Available for purchase: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sciences-artificial.

UCLA Art I Sci + Lab. The Art|Sci Center is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences. The center’s affiliation with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) offers access to cutting-edge researchers and their laboratories and a dedicated gallery for exhibitions: http://artsci.ucla.edu/?q=about.

Harnessing the Computers Worldwide to Address Urgent, Global Issues

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“Dance vs. PowerPoint, a Modest Proposal” TED Talk by John Bohannon. Use dancers instead of PowerPoint. That’s science writer John Bohannon’s “modest proposal.” In this spellbinding choreographed talk he makes his case by example, aided by dancers from Black Label Movement. TED Talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal

“Four Principles for the Open World” TED Talk by Don Tapscott. The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place.
http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1

“What Happened When I Open-Sourced My Brain Cancer” TED Talk by Salvatore Iaconesi. When artist Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with brain cancer, he refused to be a passive patient—which, he points out, means “one who waits.” So he hacked his brain scans, posted them online, and invited a global community to pitch in on a “cure.” This sometimes meant medical advice, and it sometimes meant art, music, emotional support—from more than half a million people.
https://www.ted.com/talks/salvatore_iaconesi_what_happened_when_i_open_sourced_my_brain_cancer

Suggested Reading

“Citizen Science” Encyclopedic Entry National Geographic: http://education.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia/citizen-science.

Extreme Citizen Science. Extreme Citizen Science is a situated, bottom-up practice that takes into account local needs, practices and culture and works with broad networks of people to design and build new devices and knowledge creation processes that can transform the world: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites.

Pidot J. Forbidden data. Slate 2015: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/wyoming_law_against_data_collection_protecting_ranchers_by_ignoring_the.html.

Scientific American “Citizen Science.” Listing of current citizen science projects: http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/?category=energy-and-sustainability.

We Need Us. Explores what we can learn from experiencing data, rather than simply gleaning information from it: http://www.thespace.org/artwork/view/weneedus.

Developing Art-Science Collaborations to Reduce Cross-Cultural Denialism

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“The Danger of Science Denial” TED Talk by Michael Specter. Vaccine-autism claims, “Frankenfood” bans, the herbal cure craze: All point to the public’s growing fear (and, often, outright denial) of science and reason, says Michael Specter. He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress.
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial

“Why We Should Trust Scientists” TED Talk by Naomi Oreskes. Many of the world’s biggest problems require asking questions of scientists—but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to belief and draws out three problems with common attitudes toward scientific inquiry—and gives her own reasoning for why we ought to trust science.
http://www.ted.com/talks/naomi_oreskes_why_we_should_believe_in_science

Suggested Reading

Achenbach J. Why do many reasonable people doubt science? National Geographic 2015: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text.

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology. Resources that focus on providing scientists and scientific institutions with the resources they need to have meaningful conversations with the public: http://www.aaas.org/pes.

Knobloch-Westerwick S, Johnson BK, Siliver NA, Westerwick A. Science exemplars in the eye of the beholder: How exposure to online science information affects attitudes. Science Communication 2015;37(5):575-601: http://scx.sagepub.com/content/37/5/575.full.pdf+html.

Muller L, Bennet J, Froggett L, Bartlett V. Understanding third space: Evaluating art-science collaboration. Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art 2015: http://isea2015.org/proceeding/submissions/ISEA2015_submission_332.pdf.

Pew Research Center. Science and innovation reports: http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/science-and-innovation/pages/3.

Varner J. Scientific outreach: Toward effective public engagement with biological science. BioScience 2014;64(4):333-340: http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/64/4/333.full.

Generating Projects That Bring Together the Structure and Systems Between Biology and Art to Create Either Biology or Art

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“Architecture That Repairs Itself?” TED Talk by Rachel Armstrong. Venice is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too.
http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself

“How Can Technology Transform the Human Body?” TED Talk by Lucy McRae. TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect—she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows her work, from clothes that recreate the body’s insides for a music video with pop-star Robyn, to a pill that, when swallowed, lets you sweat perfume.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_mcrae_how_can_technology_transform_the_human_body

“Metal That Breathes” TED Talk by Doris Kim Sung. Modern buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo-bimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and responsively, and can shade a room from sun and self-ventilate.
http://www.ted.com/talks/doris_kim_sung_metal_that_breathes

“Programming Bacteria to Detect Cancer (and Maybe Treat It)” TED Talk by Tal Danino. Did you know that bacteria can be programmed as though they were computers? Bioengineer and artist Tal Danino is working out how to instruct bacteria to enter cancerous tumors—where it can detect and treat the disease noninvasively. And when Danino isn’t tinkering with bacteria’s healing potential, he makes artwork with it.
http://www.ted.com/talks/tal_danino_we_can_use_bacteria_to_detect_cancer_and_maybe_treat_it

“What Humans Can Learn from Semi-intelligent Slime” TED Talk by Heather Barnett. Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with Physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives in cool, moist areas. What can people learn from the semi-intelligent slime mold? http://www.ted.com/talks/heather_barnett_what_humans_can_learn_from_semi_intelligent_slime_1

Suggested Reading

Fortune S. Top 10 art-meets-biology innovations. Dazed 2014: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/17960/1/top-ten-art-meets-biology-innovations.

Nervous System Projects. Nervous System is a generative design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology. We create using a novel process that employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication to realize products. Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena, we write computer programs based on processes and patterns found in nature and use those programs to create unique and affordable art, jewelry, and housewares: http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/albums/floraform-videos.

Wyss Institute. Wyss Institute’s Organs-on-Chips acquired by Museum of Modern Art: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/193/wyss-institutes-organsonchips-acquired-by-museum-of-modern-art.

Creating Human-Centered Cultures with Human-Centered Technologies

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“Human-Centered Design” TED Talk by David Kelley. IDEO’s David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the hardware and more about the user experience. He shows video of this new, broader approach, including footage from the Prada store in New York.
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelley_on_human_centered_design?language=en

Suggested Reading

Hughes TP. Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2005. Available for purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Human-Built-World-Technology-Culture-science-culture/dp/0226359344.

Jaimes A. Human-centered multimedia: Culture, deployment, and access. IEEE MultiMedia 2006: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1580429.

Rutirasiri C. Making the business case for human-centered design. Entrepreneur 19 November 2014: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239948.

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