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NSEADNETWORK FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, ART AND DESIGN
Pamela L. Jennings, Ph.D.DirectorBrenda and Earl Shapiro Center for Research and CollaborationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
CreativeIT PROGRAM
National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program
General Program Statistics• Program Active 2007 – 2010• $38M Approximate total research funding
FY10 Program Statistics• $9.5M Granted in FY10 – increased from
$5M base budget• 172 Proposals submitted 162 Reviewed• 7 panels organized in the following
categorieso Cognitive Science and Design Thinking o Education (formal and informal)o Creativity-Based IT Researcho Creativity Support Tools
• 30 Awarded Proposals (approx. 18% yield)
Interactive Cognition LabStudents at the University of California, San Diego study creative collaboration and distributed cognition.
CreativeIT AWARD 1002736 Distributed Creative Cognition in Choreography
PIs: David Kirsch (cognitive science) with Wayne McGregor (choreography)University of California – San Diego
National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program
New theoretical models for understanding creative cognition and computation.
Developing cognitive models of creativity in support of code, agents and robotics; and understanding how creative cognitive models from creative practices can help people harness their creative potentials.
Integrating creativity-based methods, practices & theories to stimulate breakthroughs in science and engineering.
Understanding and supporting contributions to computing, information sciences and engineering from the fine, performing and applied arts.
CreativeIT Award 1002851 : CAIRA - a CreativeArtificially-Intuitive and Reasoning Agent in the context of ensemble music improvisationPIs: Jonas Braasch (musician, architect, computer science), Selmer C. Bringsjord (artificial intelligence) & Pauline Oliveros (musician, composer)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Communication Acoustics & Aural Architecture Research LabCAIRA - a Creative Artificially-Intuitive and Reasoning Agent in the Context of Ensemble Music Improvisation
National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program
National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program
Innovative Educational Approaches that Encourage Creativity.
Experiments in multi-disciplinary teaching and learning from design studio labs to thinkering, and serious games.
CreativeIT Award 1002713: Scratch 2.0: CultivatingCreativity and Collaboration in the CloudPI: Mitch Resnick (Computer and Learning Sciences)Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lifelong Kindergarten, MIT Media LabKids create interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations -- and share their creations with one another online. They learn to think creatively, reason systematically, & work collaboratively.
National Science Foundation CreativeIT Program
Software tools that support creative problem solving.
The design, development, and evaluation of new software tools and interaction design methods that help people in integrate creative solutions when solving hard problems.
CreativeIT Award 1002921 : Expressing Dramatic Character in Dialogue: A Toolkit for Creative Exploration of Linguistic StylePIs: Marilyn Walker (Natural Language Processing) & Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Media Art & Games Theory)University of California-Santa Cruz
Natural Language and Dialogue Systems LabSpyFeet explores how natural language processing can be incorporated into the narrative structures of game authoring.
NSF CreativeIT Workshops
Arts + Science + Technology RE/search Strategies: a Joint Meeting of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the ArtsNSF Headquarters, September 15-16, 2010.
Bridging STEM to STEAM: Developing New Frameworks for Art-Science-Design Pedagogy Rhode Island School of Design, January 19-20, 2011.
Establishing a Network of Excellence for Art + Science + Technology Research: Infrastructural and Intellectual FoundationsCurtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, March 15-16, 2011.
CONTINUING the DIALOGUE …
NSF CreativeIT Workshops
Arts + Science + Technology RE/search Strategies: a Joint Meeting of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts
PI(s) and Collaborators:Pamela Jennings, Joan Shigekawa, Bill O’Brien, Fox D. Harrell, Laurie Durnell & Tiffany Forner - Grove Consultants International, Sneha Veeragoudar
NSF HeadquartersArlington, VirginiaSeptember 15-16, 2010
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Arts + Science + Technology RE/search Strategiesa Joint Meeting of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts
NSF Headquarters, Arlington, VirginiaSeptember 15-16, 2010
National Science Foundation Post-CreativeIT Initiatives
THE BIG QUESTIONS
How does computing come together with culture?
How can we tap into the passions of today’s youth to provide them with 21st century skills and employment?
What is the role of the arts in complex issues like climate change?
How can the arts and humanities work in service of solving larger problems?
How can the structures of organizations and educational institutions enable art/science learning?
How can we break down silos in university curriculums to foster these kinds of art/science collaborations?
CURRENT STATE
DRIVERS &TRENDS
GAP ANALYSIS
FUTURE STATE
NSF CreativeIT Workshops
Bridging STEM to STEAM: Developing New Frameworks for Art-Science-Design Pedagogy
PI(s) and Collaborators:John Maeda, Brian Smith, Chris Rose, Babette Alain
Rhode Island School of DesignProvidence, Rhode IslandJanuary 19-20, 2011
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Bridging STEM to STEAM: Developing NewFrameworks for Art-Science-Design Pedagogy
Workshop Objectives:1) Develop strategies for enhancing STEM education through the integration of art and design thinking (STEM + ART = STEAM);
2) Build new connections between art and design disciplines and scientific fields to advance understanding of complex systems, e.g., through improved strategies and techniques for the shared perception and visualization of scientific data.
Rhode Island School of DesignJanuary 20-21, 2011
National Science Foundation Post-CreativeIT Initiatives
STEM to STEAM Congressional Briefing with Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) & the Rhode Island School of Design
NSF CreativeIT Workshops
Establishing a Network of Excellence for Art + Science + Technology Research: Infrastructural and Intellectual Foundations
PI(s) and Collaborators:Johannes Goebel, Jonas Braasch
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteTroy, New YorkMarch 15-16, 2011
CONTINUING the DIALOGUE …
Establishing a Network of Excellence for Art + Science + Technology Research: Infrastructural and Intellectual Foundations
Workshop Objectives:1) Identify key issues in infrastructure needs to support creativity-based technology research;
2) Develop concrete plans toward the development, management and constituent involvement in a distributed network infrastructure for the sustained support of the field;
3) Identify leading institutions that will move forward on proposals for the development of a research network.
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMarch 15-16, 2011
National Science Foundation Post-CreativeIT Initiatives
Pedagogical Frameworks for STEAM, Geophysics, Mixed Reality Rehabilitation, Cultures of Participation, Neuroaesthetics, Rural Ecosystems / NOAA, Telematic Performance Arts, Performance Studies, Humanities,, Languages, Visualization of Large Datasets, Tetherless World, Cognitive modeling of learning and sound, Music, Human Computer Interaction, Signal Processing, Machine learning, Synthetic Biology, Brain Signals, fMRI, National Interdisciplinary Networks, Massive Multiplayer Environments, Motion Capturing Gaming, Body Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Dance, Choreography, Animation, Computer Science, Medical Experts, Health, Biomechanics, Neurologists, Big Data, Mulitmodality, Allosphere, Biogenerative, Quantum Information processing, Structural materials Research, Arts & Entertainment, 3D Models, Fluid Dynamics, Cancer, Nanoparticles, Bloodstream, Intelligent Agents, Quantum Mechanics, Hydrogen Electron, Dynamic Behaviors, Photon Emission, Cosmologist, Cosmic Microwave, Multi-sensory interfaces, Composition….
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT AREAS OF ENGAGEMENT
Academic standards of publish or perish are often at odds with interesting work that crosses boundaries.
Collisions between individual and collective approaches• different development and assessment methods• different incentives and reward structures• different interpretations of the same terms• Just plain difference….
Not able to find common ground or deeply shared commitments to sustain interests.
Conflicting disciplinary temporal rhythms
Not sure what a network of excellence is….
SAMPLING OF AREAS OF CONCERN
Dynamic synergy, accelerated innovation and problem solving • Rapidintroduction of new research horizons with greater global impact • Strongerorganization, diversity, and collective lobbying power for national shared research funding • Shift of institutional priorities and values to include inter- institutional collaboration • Encourage critically needed hybrid collaboration with scientists, engineers, artists, and humanists • Create and sustain important online inter-institutional research portals, research societies and peer reviewed periodical literature with higher potential long- term existence • Reduce redundancy, manage finite resources better more responsibly, privilege sustainable resource sharing • Share internal organizational strategies and policy information • Provide functioning and experience based cost / benefit models to new research partners • Increase sustainable products, ideas, and exportable methods emerging from co- investment/co- development • Enable shared peer- review models, including equitable assessment for tenure/promotion of hybrid faculty engaged in hybrid collaborative research • Partnering and sharing among supercomputing centers • Shared grants- management technology for funders to create interoperable information about shared research intelligence and efficacy…
SAMPLING OF ADVANTAGES TO INTER-INSTITUTIONAL ALLIANCES
NSEADNETWORK FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, ART AND DESIGN
Pamela L. Jennings, Ph.D.DirectorBrenda and Earl Shapiro Center for Research and CollaborationSchool of the Art Institute of [email protected]