But let's talk a little bit about what we're gonna do the next two days. Today
is a full group event for most of us here at the symposium. We also have some guests
with the beloved community initiative, I believe they're in the back and they are
going to be here for part and then they also have a program that they're doing as well.
Today we're going to be framing what does it mean to do transdisciplinary work
as a way of addressing grappling with some of the big problems of our age.
Tomorrow we're going to have multiple breakout sessions where we drill deeper into
some of those wicked problems that we've identified
and they're going to be smaller sessions that are going to be comprised of very short
presentations and a lot of dialogue across the groups for today though let's focus on today.
We have four sessions planned, we have our keynote followed by a exploration
with three guests Andrew Burnett from Know Innovation, Emily CoBabe-Ammann from the
University of Denver, and Faith Hawkins from University of Indiana, Indiana University yes
so thank you and they're going to talk about transdisciplinary research to augment humanity
and some exemplars of what they're doing and they've been working together for a few months now
virtually so I'm they probably should be a lot of fun to to to hear what they have to say
after that there will be another conversation on transdisciplinary directions for research funding
and it will be facilitated by Lisa Lee from here at Virginia Tech we're going to have two of our
investment institute directors Karen Roberto and Benjamin Knapp and we'll also be joined by
Sunil Iyengar from the National Endowment for the Arts and really looking at so we want to do this
work that requires risk how do we frame it how do we present it so that we can get the resources
the space the support and so forth to carry out the work and then at 5:15 we will have one of our
Virginia Tech's transdisciplinary research initiatives Coastal at VT
collaborating with our Center for Communicating Science to give
an embodied demonstration of what they're doing as transdisciplinary work addressing coastal issues.