As an opening for the BEAN meeting on Creating the Future I have put together a panel to explore Creativity as a motivation for engagement with learning in the biological sciences. Erica Seccombe (ANU School of Art) who will show her beautiful X-rays of Mung Beans germinating. Matt Adcock (CSIRO Data61) will show his work on 3D scanning and printing the CSIRO insect collection. I’ll play some sonifications of biological data.
BEAN is a platform to tackle the challenges and opportunities in the ever-evolving tertiary landscape. It builds the critical mass to engage more broadly with other disciplinary areas. The members are scientists from biomed to ecology and botany who collect data, images, sounds, etc. Phil Poronnik, who is organising the meeting, proposes creative practice with these kinds of data as a way to facilitate creative engagement with the science curriculum. He argues that if a student creates something and has to explain the rationale to diverse groups of people, they may actually be lead them to want to find out more information and contextualise it.
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