About This Journal
Welcome to The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal, a transdisciplinary, global, theory-practice, open access, online journal.
The Transdisciplinary STEAM Journal was launched in 2013, by graduate scholar Sara Kapadia (PhD. Education, 2016) as a transdisciplinary project. The acronym STEAM (Arts in STEM) emerged in the early 2000s, especially at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Then-President John Maeda championed arts integration with STEM subjects as critical in addressing complex problems and innovation. STEAM developed 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 2026, we re-launched as The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal to expand arts integration beyond STEM. The arts are strong modalities for transdisciplinary boundary crossing across all disciplines and into community for research, education, and social transformation. The arts are both mirrors and prisms; they reflect our realities of beauty and pain, and they illuminate what is hidden. They create spaces for healing, contemplation, delight, and imagination, reminding us of our humanity. They give voice to those who cannot speak, asking vital questions and revealing human dilemmas. Artists have been an important part of activism, awakening conscience and action for positive social and planetary transformation.
We welcome artists, researchers, educators, arts-based community organizers and activists, students and young voices who integrate the arts in their work. Submissions can take the form of research articles, especially using arts-based research methods, arts-integration lesson plans documentation of arts-based community-engagement, reflection articles, reviews and commentary on arts-integration books and other publications.
