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需要综合多种视角，包括科学、艺术和人文。这些领域都有一个共同的目标，那就是揭露关于复杂世界的隐藏真相。这次讲习班将汇集艺术家、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，以及对这些领域的一体化有重大历史和远见的机构。结合起来，这个跨学科小组可以培养同理心，增加对科学的开放，并使社会能够在与土地和资源管理、保护和社会健康相关的关键决策做出时获得多种信息来源。将公布现有资源汇编，以鼓励这些学科之间的融合，讲习班活动将在实地站和海洋实验室的艺术博客上公布。最后，这种智力合作将以无与伦比的方式扩大对科学领域的参与。这次研讨会的目的是扩大跨学科努力的深度和广度，在这些努力中，艺术和人文有助于对社会环境系统面临的重大挑战的基本探究和分析。在以地点为基础和以问题为中心的研究背景下综合社会环境挑战的观点，有望在解决通过相对孤立的独立学科工作无法实现的问题方面取得进展。艺术和人文科学，以及这些概括性学科标题中包含的许多子学科，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。这个研讨会是有风险的；许多拟议的参与者以前从未在一起工作过。战略议程将指导为期3天的研讨会，并确定明确的目标。其中包括共同研究议程的大纲，实现这一议程的未来活动的路线图，以及手稿的共同作者。研讨会将在内华达艺术博物馆-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、国家艺术捐赠基金和国家人文捐赠基金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.