Dear Simon,
thanks for articulating these questions, these are the very
"burning issues" we try to address at the international
Leonardo Education Forum meetings/workshops.
nina
>Science curriculums for artists and art curriculums for scientists.
>
>We (at eca) have been discussing these sorts of issues for a while. How
>would you design an interdisciplinary studies programme? How would you
>employ creative practices as the connective tissue between disciplines that,
>at least in academia, rarely connect to one another?
>
>Beyond these questions, how would you resource a programme of study and
>research that, by definition, will change its shape and focus as the
>students come and go? How do you ensure it remains motile and open to new
>connections? How do you broker the agreements between departments and
>faculties that allow the necessary resources to be available when the lead
>times will, again by definition, be very short? How do you convince
>silo-ists protective of their ever diminishing resources to share what they
>have left?
>
>If I knew the answers to this second set of questions then eca would be the
>place you would go to find those arts curricula for scientists and science
>curricula for artists. Other mash-ups would ideally be on the changing
>day-menu as well.
>
>It's still just an idea though...
>
>Simon
>
>
>Simon Biggs
>
>Research Professor
>edinburgh college of art
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>From: erich <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: erich <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:46:40 +0200
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>Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Fwd: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Art-Science and
>Science-Art Curricula: Call for Contributions
>
>hi armin,
>
>> thanks for bringing up this point about what (most) scientists think
>> about art. I did not mention this as I was trying to limit my rant.
>
>well we should not start a scientist bashing.
>the conclusion of my experience is just that one can not expect a
>scientist knowing more then the average about art just because s/he
>is a scientist, its nothing i want to hold against scientists.
>when working there at the research station it just caught me in a moment
>of surprise.
>
>i would like to speculate and turn it around as well: we can not expect
>an artist to know more then average about science just because s/he is
>an artist.
>
>> so to close the art science gap, maybe what is needed is an art
>> curriculum for scientists focusing on contemporary critical practices
>and what about a science curriculum for artists ?
>
>best
>
>erich
>
>
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