Colleagues As i was visiting colleagues this summer i became aware of a resurgence of an old word : polymathy— it has an advantages over the us centric term of “stem to steam” eg discussed in: Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia A Dialogue across Continents Editors:William C. Kirby, …
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Colleagues In an earlier discussion post ( http://yasminlist.blogspot.fr/2017/07/yasmindiscussions-mediterranean.html ) I presented a provocation that we need to think of stem to steam in the other direction or STEAM to STEM- and specifically how the arts, design and humanities can work with stem to redesign science itself, both the scientific method and the way science is embedded in …
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Colleagues STEAM to STEM at the SEQUOIA DINER: HUEVOS VERDE ? HUEVOS RANCHEROS ? ( for further discussion see the YASMIN discussion http://yasminlist.blogspot.com/ ) METAPHOR: ARTSCI is like Huevos Rancheros, one egg is art, another science another technology, and often a fourth is Humanities ( it takes more than one person to eat more than 2 …
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Colleagues continuing our yasmin discussion ( Yasmin URL: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin If you prefer to read the yasmin posts on a blog go to http://yasminlist.blogspot.com/ ) on STEAM to STEM: Redesigning science education as we redesign Science itself To: Julia( Buntaine) From: Roger Malina what a fantastic issue of SciArt Magazine* on steam education- look forward to reading …
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Colleagues This is to continue feeding into the YASMIN discussion on whether we need to redesign science itself as part of our STEM to STEAM ideas. here is my original post: http://malina.diatrope.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5168&action=edit Where I begin to argue that we have been backing into the future with STEM to STEAM and the emphasis on how to …
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Colleagues STEM TO STEAM- REDESIGNING SCIENCE, the SCIENTIFIC METHOD ? IS SCIENCE OBSOLETE REDUX ? On the YASMIN discussion list, ( http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_discussions ) I just launched a provocation that in the STEM to STEAM discussion the burden of evidence or normally put on the arts/design/humanities, They are asked to justify the worth of new approaches …
Colleagues In Manizales, Mauricio Meija, Andres Roldan and I chaired a panel and workshop on training methods for transdisciplinary collaboration. I attach the current draft for comment. During the panel I was accused of being a ‘positivist’ for implying that there might be a ‘best’ practice – this was a mistake as clearly there are …
Colleagues This morning we had breakfast in Manizales Colombia where we have come for the first of a series of Leonardo 50th anniversary birthday parties that have gone viral (this one hosted by ISEA, next one in Rio at PUC RIO, then Bologna then…!!!) Manizales is in an area of incredible biodiversity that was …
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Colleagues Here is a reminder for the art science residencies called in the region of Marseille, France to address environmental and climate chante in the region. I will be serving on the jury. The goal is to have among the 8 artists selected an international distribution with artists involved in natural parks in urban areas …
Colleagues: look what Nisar Keshvani is doing in: KHOROG , TAJIKISTAN Nisar worked as a journalist and editor-in-chief in print, online and television journalism since 1993 and is an award-winning film maker. Keshvani served as Editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed on-line academic journal Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press)….but now he is helping found the University …
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