1. What is an idea laboratory and an idea accelerator? The author of the book visualize idea laboratory as an actual setting, a place for experiment, action, and movement in between the arts and sciences. It is a place of learning, interpretation that aims to catalyze innovation and exploration. The idea accelerator is an idea catalyst which has the passion, curiosity and freedom to pursue remarkable ideas.
2. How are art scientists able to do idea translation? There are many factors on how art scientists able to do idea translation. First, they passionately embrace some idea they aim to realize in the arts or science. Second, they study deeply and open themselves to new experience in science or in arts. Third, they struggle against resistance from colleagues and even to their intended audience. Also, they repeatedly test and see their original idea evolve in unexpected ways in a new environment. Lastly, they maintain a determination to arrive at an original artistic or scientific expression. In the case of Diana Debby, she made use of art science to come with an innovation in music composition. She fused her knowledge in music and in electrical engineering. She used chaos to generate musical variations. In pursue of new idea, from being a pianist, she transformed herself into an engineer. She even risked her previous profession with the hope that she would embrace new ideas. With what she did, she was able to perform better as an engineer which made her a better composer.
3. Read Chapter 3 on idea translation in Cultural Institutions. How is it possible for art to be fused with the sciences? It is possible for art to be fused with the sciences since they both need each other. Science mixes with art and art with science. In cultural institutions, art enters the science for the same apparent reason science enters the art, to serve the institutional mission, not to question it, and to change it.
4. Make a good and friendly diagram/ formula/ table so that the process of art science can be understand in a glance.
ARTS
ART SCIENCE
SCIENCE
Aesthetic
Aesthetic and
Quantification
Images
scientific
Sensual
Intuitive and deductive
Intuitive Sensual and Expressive of nature
analytical
in its complexity Embrace nature in
Analytical Deductive Conditional Expressive of nature in its simplicity
