Conference Abstract: Art-Science and STEAM have become buzzwords once more, but in transcending, transgressing, or transforming disciplinary boundaries, what are we really looking to achieve? These approaches have opened up new ways of knowing, learning, and creating. Yet, from issues regarding access, to differences in definitions, priorities, and measurements of success, transdisciplinary collaborations have had more than their fair share of challenges.

This community podcast session does more than discuss what works and what doesn’t. It puts it on record.

We hosted a roundtable session and live podcast recording in which we examine the past, present, and future of transdisciplinary collaborations. What can we learn from past examples, from the holistic experiments of Black Mountain College to the living laboratories of Le Laboratoire and far beyond? Together we will discuss how to support, incubate and enact meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations, resisting the urge to look only to the future without first engaging with lessons from the past. Attendees were invited to contribute to a fishbowl style discussions guided by our panel of contributors on local and international examples, and what art-science, STEAM, and transdisciplinarityy mean to them. 

In creating this community recording, we seek to document and share stories, knowledge, experience, and perspectives at a time when learning to work together across difference, has never been more critical.

Podcast episode coming soon.