To Science and Art
Peter Cooper, Founder of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in NYC
I read an interesting BusinessInsider.com post mentioning MakerBot in its discussions of historic and potential interaction between Art and Science within NYC businesses and tech startups. Having spent the past decade in NYC myself, I have heard quite a bit about The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (aka “Cooper Union”), have worked with graduates of its programs and attended public events there. But I hadn’t thought in detail why it is significant that the institution unites these two elements until reading Fred Wilson’s post.
Here’s a quote that stood out for me:
Science and art are seen as two very distinct endeavors and I suppose they are. But I see science and art as the yin yang of creative culture and innovation. To quote from Wikipedia, science and art are seemingly contrary forces that are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and they give rise to each other in turn.
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Jerry Isdale
Arts have been left out of the recent push for STEM (science, tech, engineering, math) education, much to our detriment. My career in stem has always had a close association with arts and artists. I have learned much from them and the collaborations have always been more successful and fruitful than any other approach.
I prefer to push the term STEAM, explicitly including the Arts. Origin of the acronym may be an article by John Maeda in Forbes April 2010. See comments in the MauiMakers blog post:
http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/2010/10/from-stem-to-steam-lets-not-forget-the-arts/