THE SPRING GROUP: Creative collaboration, innovative production and public exhibition, set at the interface of art and science

2005年，查理·胡克教授开始通过与科学和技术相关的各种数字(基于计算机)和模拟(基于动手材料)过程，在布赖顿大学的表演、艺术和设计学科之间建立数字联系。他邀请了多个有兴趣的团体会面，并倡议成立一个由学术界和工业界伙伴组成的跨学科的广泛组织--“春天小组”。所有小组成员都相信，横向思维和创造性实验是确保他们的学科和整体创造力不断进步的基本工具。通过发展其网络活动，该小组打算设立下列战略性时间表活动：？组织并记录与业界合作伙伴的会议，以促进各方之间的创造力发展。？该小组已经在研究的潜在公共项目的发展，以及新的合作倡议。其中包括拟在英国制作一座与宇宙线活动有关的公共雕塑，并制作“外展”信息，以帮助比耶克内斯中心向学校和公众宣传他们在气候变化方面的重要工作。在该项目为期两年的结束时，制作一个大型展览和会议，以记录该小组活动的进展，展示新的展览，并创建一个公共辩论论坛。该小组的总体目标是分享其在创造性思维领域的初步进展，并在尽可能广泛的教育和工业领域内促进创造力。

In 2005, Professor Charlie Hooker began to develop digital links between the performance, art and design disciplines based within the University of Brighton through a variety of digital (computer-based) and analogue (hands-on material based) processes associated with science and technology. He invited a number of interested parties to meet and instigate what has become the 'Spring Group', a broad and interdisciplinary group of academics and partners in industry.All of the group believe that lateral thinking and creative experimentation are fundamental tools to ensure the progression of their subject and creativity as-a-whole. Through the development of its networking activity, the group intends to set up the following strategically timetabled events:? Structured and recorded meetings with partners from industry to enable the development of creativity between all parties. ? The development of the potential public projects already being researched by the group alongside new collaborative initiatives. These involve the proposed production of a public sculpture linked to cosmic ray activity, sited in Britain, together with the production of "outreach" information to assist the Bjerknes Centre communicate their important work on Climate Change to schools and the general public.? The production of a major exhibition and conference at the end of the project's two-year period to chart the progress of the group's activities, present new displays and create a public forum for debate.The group's overall goal is to share its initial inroads into areas of creative thinking and promote creativity within as wide a field of education and industry as possible.