Workshop Proposal: Perspectives: Examining Complex Ecological Dynamics through Arts, Humanities and Science Integration; Reno, Nevada; June 19-21, 2015

由于环境变化，社会面临前所未有的挑战。 应对我们这个时代的重大挑战将需要综合多种观点，包括科学，艺术和人文。这些领域都有一个共同的目标，那就是揭示复杂世界中隐藏的真相。本次研讨会将汇集艺术家，科学家，哲学家，历史学家，社会科学家，艺术，人文和科学资助机构的代表，以及在这些领域具有重要历史和观点的机构。结合起来，这个跨学科小组可以培养同理心，提高对科学的开放性，并使社会能够在做出与土地和资源管理，保护和社会健康相关的关键决策时获得多种信息来源。 目前可用于鼓励跨学科整合的资源汇编将公开提供，研讨会活动将张贴在现场站和海洋实验室艺术博客上。最后，这种智力合作将以前所未有的方式扩大对科学领域的参与。本次研讨会的目的是扩大跨学科努力的深度和广度，其中艺术和人文学科有助于对社会环境系统面临的重大挑战进行基本调查和分析。在基于地点和以问题为重点的研究背景下综合对社会环境挑战的看法，有望在解决相对孤立的独立学科无法实现的问题方面取得进展。艺术和人文学科，以及这些广义学科标题中包含的众多子学科，将为这个时代的重大挑战提供富有成效的思想和方法来源。研讨会是有风险的;许多被提议的参与者以前从未一起工作过。为期3天的研讨会将以战略议程为指导，并确定了明确的目标。其中包括一个共同的研究议程，未来活动的路线图，以实现这一议程的大纲，和共同撰写的手稿。 研讨会将在内华达州艺术博物馆-艺术与环境中心举行，25-30人将参加，他们将绘制一个新的前沿，直接实施国家科学基金会，国家艺术基金会和国家人文基金会最近签署的谅解备忘录。

Society faces unprecedented challenges due to environmental change. Addressing the grand challenges of our time will require a synthesis of multiple perspectives, including science, arts, and the humanities. These fields share a common aim of exposing hidden truths about a complex world. This workshop will bring together individual artists, scientists, philosophers, historians, social scientists, representatives from funding agencies in the arts, humanities and sciences, and institutions with significant histories and perspectives on integration across these areas. In combination, this cross-disciplinary group can foster empathy, increase openness to science, and empower society to access multiple sources of information as critical decisions are made related to land and resource management, conservation, and societal health. A compilation of resources currently available to encourage integration across these disciplines will be made publicly available, and workshop activities will be posted on the Field Stations and Marine Laboratories art blog. Finally, this intellectual collaboration will broaden participation in scientific arenas in unparalleled ways.The aim of this workshop is to expand the depth and breadth of interdisciplinary efforts in which arts and humanities contribute to fundamental inquiry and analyses of the grand challenges facing social-environmental systems. Synthesizing perspectives on social-environmental challenges in the context of place-based and problem-focused research promises progress in solving problems that cannot be achieved by separate disciplines working in relative isolation. The arts and humanities, and the numerous subdisciplines included in these generalized disciplinary headings, will offer a productive source of ideas and approaches to the grand challenges of this era. The workshop is risky; many of the proposed participants have never worked together before. A strategic agenda will guide the 3-day workshop and clear goals are identified. These include the outlines of a common research agenda, a roadmap for future activities to achieve this agenda, and co-authorship of manuscripts. The workshop will be held at the Nevada Museum of Art - Center for Art and the Environment and attended by 25-30 individuals who will chart a new frontier that directly implements the Memorandum of Understanding recently signed by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.