The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education Branches from the Same Tree (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Gallery of Illuminating and Inspirational Integrative Practices in Higher Education
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Categories include citizen science, science communication and engaged research; therapeutic interventions and storytelling to inform innovation, healing, and discovery; exhibition and installation; venture creation; and aesthetic, as well as scientific explorations in the lab, with new media, and through traditional, as well as nontraditional, performance venue environments. These examples are from U.S.-based projects and are affiliated with academic institutions demonstrating curricular, co-curricular, and researchbased integrative models and pathways (see Compendium of Programs and Courses on the Integration of Humanities, Arts, and STEMM at nap.edu)
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is a research facility whose mission is to investigate how technology alters the relation between actual, transactivated, and virtual space in art and science by bringing together diverse expertise to investigate areas such as worldmaking, transmodality, computational composition, algorithmic aesthetics, n-dimensional space, space as interface, and more. For example, Kinetrope is a plant-like life form born in virtual space that grows toward the motion of another.
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Crude Life is an interdisciplinary art, science, and outreach project focused on gathering data on endemic fishes affected by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. This engagement project raises public awareness of local species, ecosystems, and regional environmental challenges through community "citizen science" surveys and a portable art-science museum of Gulf of Mexico and Acadiana regional biodiversity.
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PERFORMANCE AS PLATFORM FOR BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN DISCIPLINES Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes Lisa Randall (Harvard University) and Hector Parra (composer)
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, "certain iconic inventions in science fiction stories serve as modern hieroglyphs." Hieroglyph's first anthology, Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, features 17 original stories born from these collaborations, demonstrating how art and storytelling can rekindle our grand ambitions for the future. The book includes innovative proposals such as 3D printing in space, an alternative internet powered by drones, solar cities designed to mimic algae cells, and more.
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. James Gimzewski is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Nano & Pico Characterization Core Facility of the California NanoSystems Institute.
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Limbitless Solutions is a nonprofit organization that uses 3D printing to create personalized bionics and affordable prosthetics. The organization grew out of work that the founding team members did as students at the University of Central Florida.
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The AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter sphere built inside a three-story near-to-anechoic (echo free) cube, facilitates research collaborations in an environment that can simulate reality.
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could allow for automated biodomes that would benefit plants and humans. Addressing the super sensory capacities of plants, this interface allows humans to decipher plant-based information on ecosystem health, the effects of climate change, and air pollution.
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Csuri's pioneer research in computer graphics and animation has not only been applied to flight simulators, computer-aided design, visualization of scientific phenomena, magnetic resonance imaging, education for the deaf, architecture, and special effects for television and films, but also helped establish leading educational programs that trained the new professionals. His former students have worked for Industrial Light and Magic, Pacific Data Images, Metro Light, Pixar, Rezn8, Silicon Graphics Inc., USA Today, Rhythm and Hues, Xaos, Walt Disney Productions, and others.
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Paris, 2014 Photo: Michel Figuet The design of Gemini -- an acoustical "twin chaise" -- "includes a number of length scales ranging from structure to material composition that affect its sound absorbing properties: (1) On the meter scale, the chaise forms a semi-closed anechoic-like chamber with curved surfaces that tend to reflect sound inward.
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as a function of curvature. Surface areas that are more curved than others are also assigned more elastic properties, thereby increasing absorption around local chambers," according to Oxman's Material Ecology website (http://www.
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EXPLORING THE INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Ape Cinema Rachel Mayeri (Harvey Mudd College) SOURCE: https://seadexemplars.org/portfolio_page/ape-cinema/ Ape Cinema utilizes how common human practices can become means to explore other fields.
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ANIMATING RESEARCH AND ACTIVATING SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION As part of Liz Lerman's Animating Research class, students lead a participatory moment during a performance at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (2017) Credit: Deanna Dent/ASU Now
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, Liz Lerman created her "Animating Research" course to combine contemporary movement, dance, theater, and science into multimedia, immersive experiences for audiences and performers: a dozen artists were paired with molecular virologists, evolutionary biologists, and engineers to create mini-performances using and exploring ASU's biodesign building space. Lerman developed her process over decades of creative research through multidisciplinary works including her "science trilogy": Healing Wars (2014)
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INSPIRING NEW INNOVATION THROUGH TRADITIONAL PAPER TECHNIQUES Kirigami Inspired Elastic Solar Cells Model Image of dynamic kirigami structure capable of solar tracking, consisting of monolithically integrated, single crystalline yet flexible, gallium arsenide solar cells on polyimide sheets. Work credit: Aaron Lamoureux, Kyusang Lee, Matthew Shlian, Stephen Forrest, Max Shtein -- University of Michigan Image credit: Aaron Lamoureux -- University of Michigan
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Working together with the Stephen Forrest Group (an electrical engineer, also at the University of Michigan) and graduate students Aaron Lamoureux and Kyusang Lee, they developed solar cells made from thin-film crystalline gallium arsenide bonded to thin foils.
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The Cube is a highly adaptable space for research and experimentation in big data exploration, immersive environments, intimate performances, audio and visual installations, and experiential investigations of all types. This facility is shared between ICAT and the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech.
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The goal is to raise awareness of critical stormwater issues for the Mason community, by means of a year-long project (Fall 2014 through Fall 2015) in which science collaborates with engineering, arts, and humanities in order to design and implement a floating wetland in Mason Pond.
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She writes, "By literally giving a VOICE to those whose habitats and lives are jeopardized by human activities, the project will initiate a subliminal emotional dialogue between viewers and the life forms that they often overlook. In essence, this project is an audible attempt to restore the dignity of other organisms that inhabit this planet and is an aesthetic amplifier of the negative consequences of our cultural choices.
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IMAGINING CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH FOOD Ghost Food Miriam Simun (MIT Media Lab) and Miriam Songster (Artist)
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Ghost Food staff serve the public, guiding visitors through this pre-nostalgic experience and engaging dialogue. Ghost Food has been deployed in Newark and Philadelphia thus far.
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Fox Harrell at MIT is created to explore the idea that social networks and video game components can be used to help people better understand and create empathy, deliver meaningful experiences and enable critical reflection on identity. According to the Mimesis website, "The story of Mimesis takes place in an underwater setting with subtly anthropomorphized sea creatures as characters.
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COMMUNITY, SKATEBOARDS, AND MOTION DATA CAPTURE Gallaudet CRATERs: Finding a Line Max Kazemzadeh, Dave Mutarelli, Ben Ashworth, Garth Ross, Dr. Dave Snyder Gallaudet University and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Photo credit: Max Kazemzadeh (Top)
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The Kennedy Center's "Finding a Line" event was led by its VP for Community Engagement, Garth Ross, who hosted a number of professional skateboarders, musicians, artists, and the public to skate and create together in the Center's front yard. After the event, the Kennedy Center donated the bowl to Gallaudet University in order to serve the creative, academic, and collaborative initiatives that began with a Special Topics course designed and taught by Gallaudet Associate Professor Max Kazemzadeh's titled "Skateboarding, Tracking & Data Visualization." The integrative course is supported by a NASA Space Grant initiated by Gallaudet Chemistry & Physics Professor Dr.
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The Bio Art Lab is a fully functioning science lab housed within an art school. It was founded in 2011 as part of the School of Visual Arts' BFA Fine Arts facility in Chelsea, NYC. The Lab was founded and is directed by Suzanne Anker, Chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department.
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