strange attractors?creativity and aesthetics in interdisciplinary design

alan blackwellreader in interdisciplinary designuniversity of cambridge

1999: (mid-life) crisis

• 19 years

• 4 degrees

• 30 products

2000: strategy

“Created to encourage collaboration between technologists, and researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences.”

2000: strategy

2000: strategy

2001: opportunity?

HASS at MIT(faculty offering minors)

AH&SS at Cambridge(tripos registrations)

potential: students in Cambridge

Arts & Humanities

Humanities & Social Sciences

Technology

PhysicalSciences

BiologicalSciences

Clinical

potential: research in Cambridge

Arts & Humanities

Humanities & Social Sciences

Academic

Public sector

Commercial