Where Makers Fear To Tread

In these defining moments in human history it is imperative that the arts work alongside the sciences and technologists, not least because the material arts’s methodology of lateral thought, creativity and personal investment has always led to alternative ways of resolving problems. Our main hurdle, however, is to secure the interest of science and engineering for these collaborations in the first place. Why are science and research engineers not asking the arts to work with them? And why are we not inviting scientists or engineers to do residences in art and design?