PANEL: Estuaries: co-creating across disciplines, organizations and beyond. Moderator: Opeyemi Olukemi. Panelists: Gina Czarnecki, Jonathan May, Kristian Moeller Moltke Martiny, Carlos Martinez de la Serna.
The rivers and oceans of professional disciplines, sectors and organizations are deeply divided by specialization, jargon and hierarchies. In this session, curators, artists, journalists and scientists share how they have developed their own ‘estuaries’ to mix, blend and stir up ideas and world-views by crossing boundaries. With untemplated and unconventional work methods, they have arrived at unexpected outcomes. They will share the limits and promise of working in these chartered territories. From temporary hackathons, to more sustained models of residencies, incubators, platforms and labs, they’ll show how they mix art with science, human-centred design with the newsroom, climate change reporting with the citizen-led collection of first-hand evidence. These experiments tackle the complex problems of the 21st century, and in doing so, they enable inclusivity, diversity and honour the multiplicity of expertise from all walks of life.
This panel discussion was part of the Collective Wisdom Symposium, a three-day multi-disciplinary symposium organized by the Co-Creation Studio at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, in partnership with the Ford Foundation’s Just Films, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Phi Centre. September 20-22, 2018.