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

Thankyou:rmalina@alum.mit.edu