Social Science in Search of its Muse: Exploratory Workshops in Arts-related Production and Dissemination of Social Science Data

一系列的四个研讨会将围绕以下原则：这是一个历史事实，在西方艺术和科学的重大动荡和变革发生在跨学科交叉授粉的时期;我们相信，艺术和科学都是“由创造力推动”（泰勒2001），创造力的潜力存在于我们所有人。毕竟，“创造力是一种在规则范围内工作的不可思议的能力，同时，改变它们”（Jones 2006）。我们相信，与我们自己的学科之外的其他人进行合作本身可以成为一种创造性的行为，经常扩展我们的理解边界，并促使我们提出新的创新方法来克服知识转移的实际障碍。研讨会系列将为参与者提供机会，参与艺术和人文领域的概念和工具的实践经验，以制作和传播社会科学成果，由艺术家，诗人，表演者和电影制片人提供便利。为期九个月的一系列四个讲习班将提供利用社会科学技术和数据的机会，从扩大我们可用的生产和传播手段到新的创造性水平的Vantage重新考虑。工作坊的主题包括“扼杀或激发创意”、“无字之歌”、“视觉认知”及“节奏与蓝调：转向身体”。研讨会对任何有兴趣探索社会科学数据生产和传播这一令人兴奋的转变的人开放。

A series of four workshops will be based around the following principles: it is a historical fact that the major upheavals and transformations in Western arts and science occurred during periods of cross-pollination from discipline to discipline; we believe that art and science are both "fuelled by creativity" (Taylor 2001) and that the potential for inventiveness resides within all of us. After all is said, "creativity is that uncanny ability to work within rule boundaries while, at the same time, changing them" (Jones 2006). We believe that engagement in co-operation with others outside of our own disciplines itself can become a creative act, often stretching the boundaries of our understanding and prodding us to come up with fresh and innovative ways of overcoming practical obstacles to knowledge transfer. The Seminar Series will afford opportunities for participants to engage in hands-on experiences of working with concepts and tools from the arts and humanities in producing and disseminating social science findings, facilitated by artists, poets, performers and filmmakers. A series of four workshops over nine months will present opportunities to work with social science techniques and data, reconsidered from the vantage point of expanding the means of production and dissemination available to us to new and creative levels. The topics of the workshops include "Stifling or stimulating creativity", "Songs without Words", "Visual Ways of Knowing" and "Rhythm and Blues: Turning to the body". Workshops are open to anyone interested in exploring this exciting shift in production and diffusion of social science data.