Science and art were not always two separate entities. Historically, times of great scientific progress occurred during profound movements in art, the two disciplines working together to enrich and expand humanity's understanding of its place in this cosmos. Only recently has a dividing line been drawn, and this seeming dichotomy misses some of the fundamental similarities between the two endeavors.

At the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation, and Realization, participants spent 3 days exploring diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. They were arranged into Seed Groups that were intentionally diverse, to encourage the generation of new approaches by combining a range of different types of contributions. The teams included creative practitioners from the fields of art, design, communications, science, engineering, and medicine, as well as representatives from private and public funding agencies, universities, businesses, journals, and the science media.

Contents

• The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES KECK FUTURES INITIATIVE ART, DESIGN AND SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE FRONTIER COLLABORATIONS: IDEATION, TRANSLATION, AND REALIZATION
• The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
• Preface
• Conference Summary
  • SCALING THE WALLS
  • BEING COMFORTABLE WITH DISCOMFORT
  • FROM DREAM TO PERFORMANCE
• Machines and the Human Biome at the Frontier of Medicine Science
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Teresa L. Johnson.
• Designing a Healthcare System That Promotes Learning and Caring
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Sydney Devine.
• Imagining New Ways to Use Music in Education and Health
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Amy McDermott.
• Restoring Physical Intuition
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Katherine Ellen Foley.
• Creating Sustainable Futures in a World Increasingly Dependent on Technology
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Lauren Schumacker.
• Developing Programs to Engage and Empower Communities to Address Threats to Ecosystems
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Lydia Chain.
• Creating Open Data Culture
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Jennifer Hackett.
• Creating a Learning Educational System to Identify Benefits of STEM to STEAM
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Laurel Hamers.
• Innovation, Creativity, and Action
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY—GROUP 1
    Kevin Morris.
  • SUMMARY—GROUP 2
    Chris Patrick.
• Harnessing Computers Worldwide to Address Urgent, Global Issues
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Roberto Molar Candanosa.
• Developing Art-Science Collaborations to Reduce Cross-Cultural Denialism
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Iveliz Martel.
• Generating Projects That Bring Together the Structure and Systems Between Biology and Art to Create Either Biology or Art
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    MaKendra Umstead.
• Creating Human-Centered Cultures with Human-Centered Technologies
  • CHALLENGE
  • SUMMARY
    Vanessa Cox.
• Appendixes
  • Preconference Tutorials
  • Agenda
  • Participant List

Suggested citation:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation, and Realization: Seed Idea Group Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23528.

NOTICE: The Seed Idea Group summaries in this publication are based on Seed Idea Group discussions during the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation, and Realization held at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California, November 12-14, 2015. The discussions in these groups were summarized by the authors. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the Seed Idea Group and do not necessarily reflect the view of any organization or agency that provided support for this project. For more information on the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative visit www.keckfutures.org.