About the ArtScience Prize
The ArtScience Prize is a catalyst for student learning through passionate pursuit of innovative art and design ideas at the cutting edge of science.The ArtScience Prize fuses a decade of experience working with Boston teens in the arts at the Cloud Foundation with an innovative “Idea Translation Lab” model of experience-based education developed at Harvard University by David A. Edwards: Cloud Foundation founder, Harvard professor, and author of Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (Harvard Press 2008) and The Lab: Experiments in ArtScience (HarvardPress 2010). It has received international media and institutional attention as a model for innovation education.
The ArtScience Prize model is currently being replicated in cities throughout the world. Each site implements at least one pilot year with a small group of students in order to test out the program model in their local area and make conceptual decisions about their site.
ArtScience Prize students engage in in-depth learning in the arts, sciences, and idea development to cultivate creativity and the ability to realize innovative project ideas generated in the classroom. Student projects focus on concepts in the arts and design fused with cutting-edge areas of study in the sciences. These project concepts start as “seed ideas” proposed by artists, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs that evolve into collaborative student-led ventures through brainstorming and workshops with skilled adult Project Mentors and Teaching Artists.
Through this groundbreaking curriculum that builds social skills, knowledge of project development techniques, and a basic foundation in creativity and the artistic process, students develop both the confidence to project a dream into concrete and realizable steps, and the ability to convince others to invest in dream realization.
ArtScience Prize students engage in in-depth learning in the arts, sciences, and idea development to cultivate creativity and the ability to realize innovative project ideas generated in the classroom. Student projects focus on concepts in the arts and design fused with cutting-edge areas of study in the sciences. These project concepts start as “seed ideas” proposed by artists, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs that evolve into collaborative student-led ventures through brainstorming and workshops with skilled adult Project Mentors and Teaching Artists.
Through this groundbreaking curriculum that builds social skills, knowledge of project development techniques, and a basic foundation in creativity and the artistic process, students develop both the confidence to project a dream into concrete and realizable steps, and the ability to convince others to invest in dream realization.
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In addition to the potential for project support and funding, student teams that develop outstanding ideas are invited to a culminating workshop at Le Laboratoire, Paris where they work with experts in the arts and design, as well as other Idea Translation Program students from around the world. Several for-profit companies, not-for-profit organizations, products, and cultural exhibitions have emerged from the program during its first years of implementation.
The Idea Translation Process seeks to enable students to apply concepts learned in the program to their future endeavors and creative pursuits. By teaching students creative problem-solving skills, the ArtScience Prize grooms the next generation of innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs.
The ArtScience Prize currently operates sites in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (U.S.A.), and Paris, France. It is an internationally-federating educational program of ArtScience Labs that is currently expanding to replication sites in countries throughout the world. Each site implements at least one pilot year with a small group of students in order to test out the program model in their local area and make conceptual decisions about their site.
The Idea Translation Process seeks to enable students to apply concepts learned in the program to their future endeavors and creative pursuits. By teaching students creative problem-solving skills, the ArtScience Prize grooms the next generation of innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs.
The ArtScience Prize currently operates sites in Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (U.S.A.), and Paris, France. It is an internationally-federating educational program of ArtScience Labs that is currently expanding to replication sites in countries throughout the world. Each site implements at least one pilot year with a small group of students in order to test out the program model in their local area and make conceptual decisions about their site.
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