Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation * * SIGNED * *

Edwards, David

ISBN 10: 067402625X / ISBN 13: 9780674026254

Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2008

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194 pp. NAP. Contents divided into 7 Chapters: (1) "Catalyst"; (2) "Process"; (3) "Idea Translation in Cultural Institutions"; (4) "Idea Translation in Academia"; (5) "Idea Translation for Humanitarian Causes"; (6) "Idea Translation in Industry"; (7) "The Idea of the Lab"; Acknowledgments, p. 195. Yellow textured boards with charcoal spine and yellow lettering; yellow endpapers. Photo-illustrated dustwrapper not price-clipped, ($19.95), with image of mixer sans bowl, and chocolate being spattered all about; Title lettering in white across top front cover, Author name lettering in small white letters, just below Title and to its lower right; Subtitle in three-tone yellow lettering across lower middle front cover. SIGNED by Author on yellow ffep in an essentially illegible way--most closely resembling 'DE' , obscurity possibly resulting from Author's being rushed to sign multiple copies at a book signing at your favorite Indie bookstore. Looks opened only for signing, with still very tight binding: FLAWLESS ensemble. Gift-Giving Quality.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation * * SIGNED * *
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067402625X
• ISBN 13: 9780674026254
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Scientists are famous for believing in the proven and peer-accepted, the very ground that pioneering artists often subvert; they recognize correct and incorrect where artists see only true and false. And yet in some individuals, crossover learning provides a remarkable kind of catalyst to innovation that sparks the passion, curiosity, and freedom to pursue--and to realize--challenging ideas in culture, industry, society, and research. This book is an attempt to show how innovation in the "post-Google generation" is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences.

David Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined. These creators may innovate in culture, as in the development of new forms of music composition (through use of chaos theory), or, perhaps, through pioneering scientific investigation in the basement of the Louvre. They may innovate in research institutions, society, or industry, too. Sometimes they experiment in multiple environments, carrying a single idea to social, industrial, and cultural fruition by learning to view traditional art-science barriers as a zone of creativity that Edwards calls artscience. Through analysis of original stories of artscience innovation in France, Germany, and the United States, he argues for the development of a new cultural and educational environment, particularly relevant to today's need to innovate in increasingly complex ways, in which artists and scientists team up with cultural, industrial, social, and educational partners.

About the Author

David Edwards is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University and is founding director of Le Laboratoire in Paris and the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. His work spans the arts and sciences and lies at the core of a network of multi-disciplinary labs in Europe, USA and Africa. Edwards is the founder of Medicine in Need and the Boston-based Cloud Foundation that oversees Cloud Place, a dynamic center for urban youth arts, and that launched the $100K ArtScience Innovation Prize. The youngest-ever member of the National Academy of Engineering, Edwards was a featured speaker at Davos in 2010. His creative work is described at www.davidideas.com.