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

将围绕以下原则举办一系列四期讲习班：西方艺术和科学的重大变革和变革发生在从学科到学科的交叉授粉时期，这是一个历史事实；我们相信艺术和科学都是“由创造力推动的”(Taylor 2001)，而且我们所有人都有创造的潜力。毕竟，有人说，“创造力是一种在规则范围内工作，同时又能改变它们的不可思议的能力”(Jones 2006)。我们相信，与我们自己学科之外的其他人合作可以成为一种创造性的行为，往往会扩大我们理解的界限，并促使我们想出新的创新方法来克服知识转移的实际障碍。研讨会系列将为与会者提供机会，让他们在艺术家、诗人、表演者和电影制作人的协助下，在制作和传播社会科学成果的过程中，利用艺术和人文学科的概念和工具进行实践体验。为期九个月的一系列四个讲习班将提供使用社会科学技术和数据的机会，从扩大我们现有的生产和传播手段到新的创造性水平的角度重新考虑这些技术和数据。工作坊的主题包括《扼杀或激发创造力》、《无字之歌》、《知觉的视觉方式》和《节奏与布鲁斯：转向身体》。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都可以参加研讨会。

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.