Willing conversations: the process of being between

deLahunta, Scott (2006) Willing conversations: the process of being between. Leonardo, 39 (5). pp. 479-482. ISSN 1530-9282

Abstract / Summary

As a core part of deLahunta’s fourth research area, "art and science collaborations", this output is directly linked to the main PaR project within the research area. It represents a distillation and refinement of thinking based on the author’s experiences of bringing together choreographers and cognitive scientists in the context of the ‘Choreography and Cognition’ project, 2003 (ACE/AHRB subsidy: £29,000). The article suggests that the role of facilitation within art and science collaboration projects is perhaps best described in term of a framework for thinking about relations and how to encourage particular qualities of exchange, rather than as a functional ‘position’ (i.e. ‘the facilitator’). It reflects on how the practices/themes of willingness, inter-profession, conversations and wording, empathy and collaborative writing relate to the creation of the conditions for interdisciplinary (‘inter-professional’) collaboration. Ultimately, the article endeavours to propose the beginnings of a description of a ‘method’ for inter or cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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