The Endeavor: Humanities-Art Science Toward Creative Collaboration

CLAS Seed Grant      It is through the collaboration of different disciplines that true societal advancement can come to fruition. It is through this same mindset that Ron Broglio, Associate Professor, Department of English, Adriene Jenik, Professor, School of Art, and Ann Kinzig, Professor, School of Life Sciences seeks to establish The Endeavor program. The goal of this program is to gather humanists, artists, and scientists in order to better address the topic of sustainability.

Broglio, Jenik, and Kinzig plan to bring outside artists to ASU to engage with the science faculty, students, and general public. They state, “The goal of The Endeavor is to facilitate work among ASU faculty across disciplines to produce fundable projects for external grants and to create new cross-disciplinary results utilizing the knowledge and resources of ASU faculty.”

Synchronizing these two fields will allow for a greater interest and a more creative approach in the field of sustainability. Students will also have the option to take a new course entitled Rhetorics of Sustainability (ENG 394). In addition to this, ASU MFA students will have the opportunity to work at the LightWorks AzCATI (Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation) facility on the Polytechnic campus. The goal of this facility is to act as a research and test site for algae-based technology and goods. The goal of these two endeavors is to enhance the marketability of sustainability, making it a more considered approach in today’s economy.

This project was sponsered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Humanities Research.