About This Journal
The STEAM+ Journal is a transdisciplinary, theory-practice, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal with a focus on arts integration across STEM, Social Sciences, and the Humanities. We welcome researchers, artists, educators, and young voices from multiple disciplines and practice spaces within and beyond academic to share work that supports deep learning, social impact, and human flourishing through arts integration.
The STEAM Journal was launched in 2013, by graduate scholar Sara Kapadia (PhD. Education, 2016) as a transdisciplinary project to explore spaces in academia to represent the STEAM movement. The acronym STEAM emerged in the early 2000s, especially at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Then-President John Maeda championed arts integration into STEM subjects as critical in addressing complex problems and innovation. This found strong support, especially among educators who took STEAM forward as a holistic approach to learning that combined analysis, synthesis, and creativity. Dr. Kapadia brought together a strong global community engaged in STEAM practices.
In 2025 we re-launched the journal as The STEAM+ Journal with a transdisciplinary expansion of STEAM to include arts integration not just in STEM (the original STEAM concept), but also into Social Sciences and the Humanities. Our goal with The STEAM+ Journal is to amplify the scholarship and practice of transdisciplinary work in arts integration and create space and a fertile ground to cultivate further discussion and practice of arts integration as a generative process for fostering social good and positive futures in our communities and the world.
We position the Arts - visual, performing, musical, narrative and poetic, multi-media, site-specific work – as meaningful and relevant ideas, methods, and ways of thinking and being. In increasingly complex and uncertain world, we see the arts as spaces, tools, and methodologies for voice, connection, and innovation of transformative approaches to many issues and needs as well as for creating joy and positive futures. We position arts integration as a powerful way to share research and practice that transcends disciplinary boundaries, creates a shared purpose toward life-affirming efforts to transcend barriers of separation and conflict in working for human flourishing.
