Launched in 2010 by Art Professor Jennifer Parker with support from Astrophysics Professor Enrico Rameriz-Ruiz, to serve the campus community for purposes of networking, research, resource-sharing, exhibitions, talks, and events in collaborative interdisciplinary research.

As a faculty-led center, we are dedicated to pursuing, promoting, and serving interdisciplinary innovation in the arts, sciences, and technology. Our projects shift the focus from industrial machines, computers, and robots to people and ecosystems. This use of technologies across disciplines forces us to decide how we, as humans, want to experience our creative strivings and work for the public good to help redirect and understand the negative consequences of unsustainable innovation and the direct costs to the planet.

Our interdisciplinary research with students and faculty brings together diverse ways of knowing, creating spaces where empirical inquiry meets cultural imagination and lived experience. In this convergence, we cultivate practices of attention that reveal the world’s intricacy and fragility, and we imagine futures where justice, care, and wonder are deeply intertwined.