Informal Learning And Scholarship In Science And Society: A Multi-Disciplinary Workshop On Scientific Creativity And Societal Responsibility

本次会议在亚利桑那州州立大学是一个早期活动的灵感来自即将到来的2016 - 2018年二百周年的概念，写作和出版的玛丽雪莱的“弗兰肯斯坦-或现代普罗米修斯。“这本书，以及随后制作的几十部电影，引起了研究人员和公民的问题，这些问题已经持续了两个世纪，今天仍然相关。- 我们是如何从一个玛丽雪莱可以观看在死动物上进行的公开演示的世界，到一个在教室里解剖动物不受欢迎，但通过国际合成生物学竞赛（iGEM）创造新生命形式的世界？科学和工程的文学，艺术和其他文化描绘如何激励和影响STEM研究？当代科学家和工程师需要采取哪些步骤，以负责任的方式进行创新活动？外行公民在科学技术决策中扮演什么角色？我们如何理解创造力和责任感之间的广泛关系？ 这次会议汇集了美国和国际教育工作者在非正式科学教育和多学科学者谁研究科学，技术和社会（STS）的相互作用的各个方面。 这个由自然和社会科学家、工程师、博物馆专业人员（波士顿科学博物馆（MOS）;明尼苏达科学博物馆（SMM））、艺术家和人文学者组成的团队将开始制定计划，制作展品、教育节目和演示、小说和非小说写作比赛、表演以及探索科学教育、道德和艺术的课程。一个总体目标是建立一个过程，可以创建一个国家和全球的合作者网络，以规划全球范围内的计划，并建立新的专业合作的研究人员超越二百周年。研讨会，朝着一个可能的更大的倡议的第一步，可能是重要的公众参与与当代科学和社会问题，并为刺激新的跨学科研究这些问题。

This conference at Arizona State University is an early-stage activity inspired by the upcoming 2016 - 2018 bicentennial of the conception, writing and publication of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus." That book, and the dozens of films produced subsequently, have provoked questions for researchers and citizens that have endured for two centuries and are relevant today. - How have we gone from a world in which Mary Shelley could watch public demonstrations of voltaic power on dead animals to one in which the dissection of animals in classrooms is frowned upon, but the creation of new life forms via an international synthetic biology competition (iGEM) is celebrated?- How do literary, artistic and other cultural portrayals of science and engineering inspire and inflect STEM research?- What steps do contemporary scientists and engineers need to take in order to proceed with their innovative activity in a responsible fashion?- What role do lay citizens have in making decisions about science and technology?- How can we understand the broad relationship between creativity and responsibility? The convening brings together a USA and international group of educators in informal science education and multi-disciplinary scholars who study various aspects of the interactions of science, technology and society (STS). This team of natural and social scientists, engineers, museum professionals (Museum of Science, Boston (MOS); Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM)), artists and humanities scholars will begin to formulate plans for producing exhibits, educational programs and demonstrations, fiction and nonfiction writing contests, performances, and curricula that explore science education, ethics and artistry. An overarching goal is to establish a process that could create a national and global network of collaborators to plan programs worldwide and establish new professional collaborations of researchers beyond the bicentennial.The workshop, a first step toward a possible larger initiative, could be significant both for the public's engagement with contemporary issues of science and society and for stimulating new inter-disciplinary research on such issues.