Pilot: Improvisational Theater for Computing Scientists

计算科学家即兴剧场是一个试点项目，旨在评估使用即兴表演艺术来发展个人和团体在计算生物学新兴领域的科学教育和研究中的创造力。这个项目的最终研究问题是，即兴戏剧的培训是否能为科学家和理科学生提供为他们的研究创造新的探究空间的能力？ 科学家和科学教育工作者很少被教导如何建立鼓励开放探索和冒险的创造性环境。相比之下，即兴戏剧的表演者受到明确的训练，以发展这种环境以及他们的实验和冒险能力。即兴戏剧（IT）培训是激发商业，早期教育和工程设计中的创造力和团队合作的既定方法。 这种新兴的、协作的想法产生和实验可以为个人和集体带来创造性和变革性的行动。科学教育和研究定位为即兴，合奏表演可能会给？演员？在科学领域，这是将其研究和培训转化为持续的创造性和创新过程所需的透镜。 这对计算生物学领域至关重要，因为它依赖于新的科学关系、协同作用和综合方法的产生。计算机和计算生物学学科的科学家和学生将聚集在一起，参加由创意艺术家领导的即兴戏剧研讨会，以1）学习即兴戏剧的原理2）发展他们的能力，建立创造性的，社会冒险的环境3）开发创造力的指标，具体到计算生物学领域和4）设计即兴练习的创造力计算生物学，可以纳入计算生物学课程。预计将向生物学教育、计算科学和计算方面的期刊和会议广泛传播项目成果。计算生物学概念和创造力的即兴练习将通过项目网站提供，并纳入在计算科学研讨会和会议上提交的演讲和讲习班，以支持生物科学的科学界，并支持扩大妇女和代表性不足的少数群体在计算科学中的参与倡议。

Improvisational Theater for Computing Scientists is a pilot project designed to evaluate use of the performance art of improvisation to develop the creative capacity of individuals and groups in science education and research in the emerging field of computational biology. The ultimate research question for this project is whether training in improvisational theatre can provide scientists and science students with the ability to generate new inquiry spaces for their research? Scientists and science educators are rarely taught how to build creative environments that encourage open exploration and risk taking. In contrast performers in improvisational theatre are explicitly trained to develop such environments and their ability for experimentation and risk taking. Improvisational theatre (IT) training is an established approach for stimulating creativity and team collaboration in business, early education and engineering design. This emergent, collaborative idea generation and experimentation can lead to creative and transformative actions for the individual as well as the ensemble. Science education and research positioned as an improvisational, ensemble performance may give the ?actors? in the sciences the required lens for transforming their research and training into a continuous creative and innovative process. This is crucial for the field of computational biology, as it is reliant on the generation of new scientific relationships, synergies and integrative methodologies.Over the course of this project, educators, scientists and students in computing and computational biology disciplines will be brought together in improvisational theater workshops led by creative artists to 1) learn the principles of improvisational theatre 2) develop their ability to build creative, social risk-taking environments 3) develop indicators of creativity specific to the field of computational biology and 4) design improvisation exercises for creativity in computational biology that can be incorporated into the computational biology curriculum. A broad dissemination of the project results to journals and conferences in biology education, computational science and computing is anticipated. Improvisational exercises for concepts and creativity in computational biology will be made available via the project website and incorporated into submitted presentations and workshops at computing science symposiums and conferences that support scientific communities in the biosciences and support broadening participation initiatives for women and underrepresented minorities in the computing sciences.