Interdisciplinary Anticipations: Art-Science Collaboration at the Maastricht Brain Stimulation and Cognition Laboratory
Abstract
This chapter examines interdisciplinary aspirations of art-science collaborations using an art-science project at the Maastricht Brain Stimulation and Cognition research group as a case study. Studying the epistemic living spaces of this fifteen-month project from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective, I point to the pervasive presence of anticipation and confusion as typical affects in interdisciplinary work. Art-science projects allow for momentary inversions of hierarchies and a-synchronicities in the aims and effects of collaboration. The tacit structures I describe in this chapter demonstrate the implications of (ideals of) interdisciplinarity in particular situations, capturing some of the social, epistemic, and symbolic operations of the slippery term “interdisciplinarity” in action.
Lysen, F. (2023). Interdisciplinary Anticipations: Art-Science Collaboration at the Maastricht Brain Stimulation and Cognition Laboratory. In: Bijsterveld, K., Swinnen, A. (eds) Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2_12
