Scientific Transculturalism

A faculty workshop led by Lydia Fort and David Lynn (Emory University)

As part of the Art & Science Exchange, this interactive faculty workshop invited participants to explore the power of collaboration across disciplines, institutions and communities. Led by Emory University’s Lydia Fort (Theatre) and David Lynn (Chemistry), the session centered on their Howard Hughes Medical Institute-funded initiative — Learning through INclusive Collaboration (LINC) — that unites the arts, humanities and sciences to spark new thinking around humanity’s most pressing challenges.

Designed for faculty from across the university, the workshop modeled what it means to co-create in academic spaces: to teach with rather than to, to build knowledge across fields, and to embrace experimentation, reflection and iteration as central to learning. Fort and Lynn demonstrated how metaphor, lived experience and artistic practice can serve as powerful tools for scientific and humanistic inquiry alike.

By using creative and culturally grounded strategies to tackle complex issues, "Art, Science and Cultural Convergence: The Potentiality of Scientific Transculturalism" embodied the Art & Science Exchange’s mission to foster inclusive, interdisciplinary pedagogies that enrich scholarship, deepen collaboration and reimagine the role of a public university in generating socially relevant, community-engaged knowledge.