Arts-Sciences collaborative Research-Creation: Conceptual, Methodological and Organizational Strategies at ISEA 2023 - Symbiosis
May 18th, 2023
Alice Jarry participates to the Hexagram’s workshop ‘’Art-Sciencescollaborative Research-Creation: Conceptual, Methodological and Organizational Strategies’’ at ISEA 2023 Symbiosis
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The imperative for interdisciplinary research has been around and
growing, promoted by major research funding bodies for a few decades. As
a result, we can now begin to study how such research operates and
compare case studies to study effective modes of interdisciplinary
collaboration. However, in the majority of existing reports the
disciplines assembled are from relatively close epistemic cultures and
the effectiveness of collaborations usually correlates with applied
results or scientific breakthroughs.
Furthermore, in most reports, institutional and organizational considerations are set as the background conditions for the research that is conducted (Stokols, Hall, Taylor, & Moser, 2008 ; Cooke and Hilton, 2015). Fewer studies pertain to collaborations across the arts and the sciences, and rarely address how the institutional structures change or are affected by new types of research.
Furthermore, in most reports, institutional and organizational considerations are set as the background conditions for the research that is conducted (Stokols, Hall, Taylor, & Moser, 2008 ; Cooke and Hilton, 2015). Fewer studies pertain to collaborations across the arts and the sciences, and rarely address how the institutional structures change or are affected by new types of research.
The four collaborative art-science projects
that we will present and examine in the first part of this workshop are
examples of diverse disciplinary assemblages operating in different
institutional contexts. They are projects that emerge from associations
of radically distant disciplinary cultures that instigate change in the
systemic structures of their institutional contexts.
The second part of this workshop will identify challenges and organizational strategies for the constitution of teams and better management of art-science research projects, research labs and institutes. Through the method of a focus group deploying an Open Space forum methodology (Owen, 2008), presenters and participants will devise recommendations to inform policies for funding research and communication / dissemination of research, to increase dissemination and perceived value of such endeavors for all stakeholders, specifically for artists-researchers in what comes to professional advancement in academia.
The second part of this workshop will identify challenges and organizational strategies for the constitution of teams and better management of art-science research projects, research labs and institutes. Through the method of a focus group deploying an Open Space forum methodology (Owen, 2008), presenters and participants will devise recommendations to inform policies for funding research and communication / dissemination of research, to increase dissemination and perceived value of such endeavors for all stakeholders, specifically for artists-researchers in what comes to professional advancement in academia.
