Wow, I just want to give another thank you
to the two and I'm gonna take liberties and say
your names, your first name, first name, Emily and
Faith and Andy thank you so much. That was
just a very, another riveting uh panel we just
had. So thank you. And so, uh,
so as we, as you think about what
you just heard, witnessed today and been in conversation with,
ah so much. So it's, it's for me,
it's it's moving to be able to elevate where
I am, what, what what I I want to
experience. So, and the experiences of, of
as you brought up asking new and different questions are
grappling with that idea of asking new and different questions
and answering new and different questions, if that is
put to us. What we'd like to do move
into now is asking a question, and that question and
we'll get to how we want to um have you
uh be in conversation with this question in a minute.
But the question we'd like to pose is how is
this, today's shaping your understanding of the work you
do in your discipline as well as how it interjects
intersects with others? Again, how is this shaping your
understanding of the work you do in your discipline as
well as how it interjects with others. And I'll
let Matthew shape a little bit more. Yes.
So in just a moment I'm gonna invite us to
turn to a neighbor. You've already had a lot
of opportunities to get to know the folks sitting next
to you and to have some time to vision and
dream how you might grapple with some of these questions.
Now we want to actually ask you to like kind
of zoom out a little bit and think about your
experience that you're having today. What are the things
that are coming up for you, the connections you're
making, the questions that are coming up for you?
Right? So I'm gonna ask Christine. Well,
Christine, can you say one more time the
questions that we want them to reflect on? I
only said, I only, I only gave you
one question. He alluded that there were two.
So okay, so the first question, how is
this shaping your understanding of the work you do in
your discipline as well as others as with with others.
And the second question, what are opportunities,
challenges, questions, what are opportunities, challenges and
questions that are bubbling up for you today? So
turn to somebody next to you and it might be
one person, it might be a few people and
in the spirit of Andy moments ago, um smile
if you don't know their name, I think I
find it's good practice to also introduce yourself and ask
their name and have a conversation over the next five
minutes or so. Christine and I will come around
and kind of sit and chat with some of you
as well. But we want to know what's coming
up for you about your experience today. What are
you noticing? What are the connections you're making,
what are the, that's coming up for you about
how you do your work and how that work intersects
and connects with others. I'll give us a little
bit of sound to kind of undergird our conversation,
but this is a chance to kind of dive back
in and chat with the neighbor next to you. Again,
nothing is too small to notice about what we're
experiencing today. We'll be right back. It's so
I know it's in the in the spirit of things.
The conversations had to be a little short,
we're trying to stay close to time. And so
if you could bring your conversation to a somewhat close.
Mhm And so we'd like to hear just a
couple of encapsulated moments if you so will to try
and sort of create an idea of what's in the
room? If one someone wants to kind of offer something
so I'm backing up so I can get a whole
vision of what's going on. So if someone wants
to offer a thought or an image that that came
up in the conversation. Christine, right over this way.
We had a STEM person in our group and
she talked um from engineering and she talked a lot
of a little bit, we don't have much time,
a little bit about how um the work that
engineering does is cross disciplinary, but when it comes
to hiring diverse faculty or people from say dance to
come and work in ergonomic things with engineers, it's
not um it's scoffed at almost. And what was your
name? My name is. Kay, thanks.
What were some other things that we noticed and again
nothing is too small to notice. Nothing is too
small to name what you talk about. We'd love
to hear just a few more before we move on.
So my name is Hannah, something that stood
out for me that resonated with both of us is
that you know, we do approach our work from
more of an interdisciplinary perspective and so it's really nice
to be in a big room with people up front
saying we should be doing that and that, you
know, I feel and I think a lot of
us are here because we think about things that way
and so it's just really for me to be able
to go back to my office and feel like that
is what I should be doing and how I should
be operating. Thank you, Hannah, maybe one
more. I'm just chipping in with my we were talking
of in terms of it was intriguing as to how
we, we were looking at the question, the
previous question that we're proposing how one discipline can try
to fit into each area of, of, of
that question and coming from a public health background,
I was looking into addressing each area and trying to
fit in there and that we were then that broader
issue of intersection and looking as to how best we
can intersect within an area that can build a cross
disciplinary approaches and cross disciplinary um that kind of research
or that kind of um innovation in that area.
So it's like, hey, go in there and
try to fit in there even if you cannot fit.
So thank you. And what was your name
Philip, Philip. Thank you, Philip. Um
so we wanted to take a moment and hold on
to some of these ideas. Again, using uh
the ways that we Christine and I as dancers and
choreographers often think about holding onto information. I do
want to say in the spirit of what Andy and
Faith, and uh remind me your name Emily.
Thank you Emily, um gave us moments ago,
you're 100% in charge of your experience. Do you
get to choose how to participate and what that looks
like? Um but I would like to invite you
to join me. So one of the things that
I was thinking a lot about in this last session
was the importance of question asking um and also how
that question asking can relate a little bit to what
Kay was talking about to this idea of barriers that
sometimes there are barriers in place within the systems were
working with it, working, working in to actually
work across disciplines, right? Um and so when
she did it when she was thinking and she did her
hand like this, like, the barrier was there
like. So can we actually take one hand
in front of us And I'm gonna put the mic
over here. Can we? Um let's actually take
one hand way up high and draw that big question
mark and kind of push that center in front of
us right? The importance of question asking from here.
So let's actually drop that hand down and actually
find those two hands together to push against that barrier,
right? And the question asking is actually what's
gonna allow us to move forward from here. I
want to go to what Hannah said this idea that
it's actually like needing to be in spaces like this
where people are here to ask questions and to engage
in conversations that we all have the same kind of
driving believe that doing this work is actually how we're
going to make the change we want and need to
see. And it takes all of us here in
the room right now. And then again, going
to fill up something you said this idea of like
finding ways to intersect within the questions we're asking,
right? And it made me think back to a
word from Jose Jose Antonio's talk earlier, this idea
of nimbleness, right? How we have to um
both frame the question really small. That specific one
that's specific to the cares and concerns we have but
then we also the whole space. So we have
that question we find other forward knowing that we come
into spaces where we're good like minded people with different
perspectives and then from here it's just beautiful all the
way back way and let that out from here.
We find that world and I see people already and
we're gonna go there at this moment and what was
that world? We're gonna find those four different ways
that we might respond knowing that where we are now
is different than where we go from here. I
think of the crossroads that Christine talked about the ways
we might. The question from here, we're gonna
find out I love everything. Find the smallest finalists.
Beautiful. So one more time this time I'm
gonna ask the committee. If you'd like to stand,
I'm gonna bring a little bit of sound.
undergirding the work we're doing. Once more with feeling.
I also invite you to not just think about where
these movements and ideas came from originally. Thank you
sir. But also where where is the meaning taking
you now? Given the journey we've been on and
given the perspective you bring from your own work.
Here we go. Find those where we are now
knowing that sometimes we need find those. So you're
not through with us yet, Christine and I will
be back a little bit later actually, a few
different points later today, I invite you whether you're
new to the group right now or you've been with
us all day to just hold on to what you're
noticing through this experience, this act of making both
from what we're hearing, but also the stories and
the conversations that we're having. Um we'll have a
few different ways to kind of process and reflect.
Um with that, I want to thank you all
for going on that journey with us, and I'm
gonna toss it to our next group. Thank you.