Master Talk Series #3 The Interdisciplinary Imagination

In 2018, well before the wide-scale emergence of Artificial Intelligence, a study for the World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report, projected that by 2022 ‘analytical thinking and innovation, active learning and learning strategies, creativity, originality and initiative’ would be three of the most important skills for the global workforce. In many respects, the advent of Generative AI has only emphasised the significance of these high-level creative skills across disciplines. As a result, universities such as RMIT have sought to connect creative practices with other fields; for example, the STEM disciplines with the Arts, an approach known as ‘STEAM’. Through an interdisciplinary approach, ‘creativity, originality and initiative’ can be promoted across all fields of study, for the benefit of industry, society and community.

Creative practice has always looked outwards but today, art forms are increasingly mobile, crossing traditional delineations to engage not just with diverse media, but ever-expanding fields of practice. Indeed, it enables these new horizons. This presentation will consider how an interdisciplinary imagination in creative education can contribute not just to economies, but to an array of pressing social, environmental and cultural issues.

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