Science & Arts Integration

For follow-up conversations or other resources, please contact me:
Adam Johnston, Weber State University

ajohnston@weber.edu, 801.626.7711
weber.edu/ajohnston

Follow up resources to workshops/activities:

  • “Stringing Together” Music & Physics
  • Making meaning: Words
    How do we construct and create ideas? How are there parallels in science and language?
  • Observation: Bubbles
    Where do observations come from and what do we make of them? How do we foster observation as both scientists and artists?
  • Movement and Space: Paper
    How does moving with paper give us a sense for nature, expression, design, engineering? What does the experience add?
  • Timing and Communication: Pendulums
    How do we keep track of and express time? Where are the complements of art and science in the analysis of a pendulum’s motion?
  • Choreography and Engineering:
    Compare “engineering” with “choreographing.” How do arts and sciences parallel? Contrast? Where is integration appropriate, and how?
    • This is something we fret and think about a lot in Dance|Science workshops: https://dancesciencefest.org/workshops/, and
    • It’s something that I grapple with quite a bit in writing about learning more generally. I’d be happy to talk more about these things.