Workshop: Integrating the natural and social sciences and the arts to foster public engagement with issues of community sustainability

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校北极和高山研究所(INSTAAR)与EcoArt Connections和国家大气研究中心(NCAR)合作，正在举办一次初步规划讲习班和相关活动，这将是未来两三年分阶段召集三次会议的第一次，目的是聚集来自自然科学和社会科学、艺术、能源/水资源保护和相关学科的专家。该倡议将致力于为合作实体、网络和协会之间的知识共享建立一个可操作的战略。主要目标是加强全国专业人员之间的合作，以便更好地构思、实施和评估公众从事科学、艺术和可持续发展(环境、社会和经济)交叉领域工作的项目。全国各地的许多社区一直在寻求解决日益紧迫的问题，即它们是否有能力维持其地区和居民的生活的活力、健康和复原力。将跨学科的知识和技能运用于这些问题被认为是至关重要的。将有24-32名专业人士参与其中。研讨会将同时在科罗拉多州博尔德和普林斯顿大学举行，两个地点之间将进行沟通。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习计划(AISL)资助，该计划旨在促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括为扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验提供多种途径，推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，并促进参与者对更深层次学习的理解。第一次研讨会的主要成果包括：1)确定和初步绘制科学-艺术-可持续发展合作中基于证据的成功最佳做法图；2)跨网络的跨学科协作的战略愿景；以及3)传播可跨学科的研究成果的初步框架。产出包括：1)部分根据对各学科专业人员的访谈编写讲习班前简报小册子；2)讲习班后白皮书；3)参与学科领域的专家网络；4)第二次(较大)会议的议程。跨学科战略承诺通过与艺术合作，通过以地点为基础、针对特定受众并对特定受众有意义的可持续发展主题，更有效地将STEM学科带给更广泛的公众。

The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in collaboration with EcoArts Connections and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is conducting an initial planning workshop and related activities which will be the first of three stepwise convenings over the next two or three years to gather experts from the fields of natural and social sciences, arts, energy/water conservation, and related disciplines. The initiative will work to establish an operational strategy for knowledge sharing across collaborating entities, networks, and associations. The major goal is to strengthen collaboration of professionals nationally to better conceive, conduct, and evaluate projects for the public that work at the intersection of science, arts, and sustainability (environmental, social and economic). Many communities around the country have been seeking to address increasingly pressing problems about their ability to sustain the vitality, health and resilience of their regions and the lives of their residents. Bringing inter-disciplinary knowledge and skills to bear on these issues is considered to be critical. Between 24 - 32 professionals will be involved. The workshop will be conducted simultaneously in Boulder, CO and at Princeton University, with communication between the two sites. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.Intended outcomes from this first workshop include: 1) identification and preliminary mapping of successful evidence-based best practices in science-arts-sustainability collaborations 2) a strategic vision for interdisciplinary collaboration across networks; and 3) an initial framework for the dissemination of findings that can reach across disciplines. Outputs include 1) preparation of a pre-workshop briefing booklet based in part on interviews of professionals in the various disciplines; 2) a post-workshop white paper; 3) a network of experts from the participating disciplinary fields; and 4) an agenda for the second (larger) convening. The trans-disciplinary strategy promises to more efficiently and effectively bring STEM disciplines to a wider public in collaboration with the arts through sustainability topics that are place-based, targeted to, and meaningful for specific audiences.