TRANSDICIPLINARY COLLABORATION IN THE AGE OF EMERGING TECH

A panel discussion on how today’s most pressing issues require collaboration beyond traditional boundaries, calling for engineers, designers, and business leaders to take a transdisciplinary approach to solve our increasingly complex problems.

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Project details

For

On behalf of Design Interactive

Role

Leader; founder

Typology

Event

Emerging technologies are transforming communities, industries, and environments — but they are also raising ethical concerns about their often unforeseen impacts.

Panelists seated in front of the presentation screen
Panelists in conversation during the discussion

Intended Impact

Our vision for this panel discussion was to spark conversation around ways UW–Madison can lean into fostering transdisciplinary collaboration — whether that be through new courses, department synergies, events, or research.

We also hoped this event could inspire curiosity & encourage an informed awareness around how we can use emerging technologies as raw, creative materials in solving today’s most pressing challenges.

Panelists

Trudy Watt

Academic Director, MS Design + Innovation

John Surdyk

Director of the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE)

Doug Barton

Director of the UW E-Business Consortium

Coe Douglas

Creative Lead, MS Design + Innovation

CHICAGO, IL

THE GREAT LAKES REGION

05:50 CDT