Vision and Purpose
Vision
The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal offers a space for sharing work and creating positive futures through arts-integration across disciplines and practice.
Purpose
The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal promotes the work of artists, scholars, educators and other practitioners, and young voices to share research, practice, creative work, and perspectives in integrating the arts across STEM, Social Sciences, and Humanities within and outside academia.
We position the Arts - visual, performing, musical, narrative and poetic, digital, multi-media and multi-modal, site-specific work – as meaningful and relevant methods and ways of crossing disciplinary boundaries to learn and teach, conduct research, and share ideas. Arts Integration can happen in education in formal and informal spaces in academic and non-academic settings, in research that engages the arts as inquiry across disciplines and practice, in creative expression that reveals, critiques, and offers different ways of thinking and being. In an increasingly complex and uncertain world, the arts offer spaces, tools, and methodologies for multiple voices, critical questioning, reflexive practice, discovery and innovation, social change, and meaningful communication in addressing many issues and needs. And importantly, the arts create generative physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual moments and spaces that support human flourishing and a sense of shared humanity that transcends barriers of separation and conflict.
Our purpose is grounded in the following transdisciplinary ideas:
- Boundary Crossing and Integration. Boundary crossing – connecting outside of home disciplines with humility and curiosity to support discovery of new perspectives and methods. This is essential in approaching innovation and in addressing complex problems.
- Arts as Integral. We seek to better understand how the varied forms of the arts can help us reframe ideas toward developing deeper learning, creating actions for positive social and future impact, and in promoting wellbeing and flourishing for all.
- Social Good Positive Futures, Human Flourishing. We seek, encourage, and promote work and perspectives grounded in social good, positive futures, and human flourishing that can emerge from arts-integration.
- Global Community. We seek work from across the globe to support the interaction of multiple voices and a plurality of perspectives.
- Theory and Practice. We encourage the integration of theory and practice.
- Evolving Development. We are dedicated to ongoing development and transformation.
