Sachiko Hirosue 2015.12.15

Crystal Ball, circa 1920’sPhotographer: George Hoyningen-Huene Model: Lee Miller

for what innovative technologies for what disruptive futures shall we prepare?

nurture the nature of collaboration resilience and remove the fear of failure awareness of society and environment responsibility

Creativity is just connecting things. – Steve Jobs, Wired February 1996

“Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.” - Henri Poincaré on the discovery of a class of Fuchsian functions

Maria Popova Smithsonian.com 6.6.2012

John Cleese

SPACE

TIME

TIME

Confidence

humor

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

SPACE USUAL PRESSURES: 1st to publish 1st to patent 1st to market Original idea Comparison Peer Tenure Career track Impact factor Competitors Funding Pressure Cutting Edge Product Application Productive Efficient Ego

MENTAL

PHYSICAL

No place in lab to mix and match To make a mess

Hackterialab2014, Yogyakarta ID

TIME

no time too busy

deadlines

day dreaming in the shower while running over coffee at happy hour Unconscious processing Cycles of prototyping

TIME

HackteriaLab 2013 Bangalore, IN

Confidence

Silicon Valley Mantra “fail fast fail often”

Frustration is a part of the process

Unconscious bias

Perfect Grades Conclusive Experiments Protocol said…

Webcam microscope kit version gaudilab hackteria.org

humor Open for Exchange New knowledge New ideas Different disciplines New cultures Inclusion

Real engineering vs Soft science Hardcore Serious stuff Scientific rigor Judgments Exclusivity

Waterhackathon Tech4Dev Lausanne, CH 2014

If we provide the SPACE, TIME, TIME, CONFIDENCE, and HUMOR, will happen?

creative thinking interdisciplinary collaborations disruptive innovation

Maybe not?

make this an active process

http://kids-myshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/view/66795/kaleidoscope-fun-shot-by-stitch-in-time

SB

CDH

http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1008403/diy-kaleidoscope-craft-for-kids

feed

mixing

fermentation

aeration

nourishment

people

Meet Hack & Brainstorm

6 month fellowship prototype cycles

Real world Engagement

Feed forward to research

educational pilot

proposal

People

Bring 2nd year PhD students together

Know what is going on in their research group On the ground knowledge of what could accelerate their research Passed qualifying exams Not sprinting to the end

Take stress off their advisors

A fellowship to develop cycles of prototype ideas Let the brainstorming be informed by the students’ thesis work Student PhD stay will become 4.5 years

Invite kindred spirits as mentors Senior scientists, Core facility members Interested post-docs, faculty Outside-the-box researchers, artists

Set the exchange stage, bring the hacking spirit

A (required) course – 2-day? / 1-week Open to all (2nd year PhDs) in all departments By application

Meet Hack & Brainstorm

Workshop style List up the problematics in own research Meet and greet – find collaborators Bring in external guests to animate

Identify partners and projects that require time, and collaboration

“We were constantly exchanging ideas and comparing our findings. Everyone participated, regardless of how much they already knew about DIY biology.” hackteria @ SATW 2015

Hackterialab Yogyakarta, ID 2014

6 month fellowship prototype cycles

Work on the projects Those who came up with the projects identified in the fall = TEAM

Application? Selection? Space? (in one of the labs of the student teams?)

Real world Engagement

“What happens when … When we scale “the community” beyond tech creators?”

“Art changes who gets to engage“

Visual, tactile, storytelling

“Build with, not for”

Laurenellen McCann on medium.com

Project community = research community We and collaborators are the community

Feed forward to research

After the course we gain…

After the fellowship

Students who know each other from different faculties Laboratory specific problematics identified by the researchers themselves Create and maintain a “parking spot” - database of actionable ideas Open Science Proposals / application for the fellowship

Self-initiators with some new skills Deepened collaboration between students and their labs Usable prototype for experiments in the lab

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Start small scale

Thank you for your feedback

Resources needed

Salar(ies) Fellowships – salary for 6 months x 2-6 PhDs Materials Guest(s) invitation – fees, travel, accommodation, per diem Administrative help Institutional help (allowing students to stay 4.5 years, for e.g.)