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General Ideas
General Guidelines
Applications should have mechanisms in place to recognise change and have sufficient flexibility to respond to change. Review Criteria
Create a new kind of proposal called a “design proposal” as an alternative kind of funding to the traditional “research proposal” 1) Foucsed on a need area rather than a specific hypothesis/result can be based on social/economic need (transportation, alternative energy, health….) …but needs to be decoupled from immediate cost/benefit analysis and from specific solution paths 2) Combining different perspectives (multi-disciplinary in a way that is focused on the topic) Should require explicit inclusion of “outsider” perspectives e.g., if it is in art-centered project, need technologists e.g., if it is a technical design project (like MIT’s cars) need artists 3) Initial proposal is seed for more extensive project Leverage NSF support to get industry involvement Initial funding is large/long enough to allow building up sufficient resources to get to a first round prototype to see what directions are worth following further 4) Educational activity is a key part of the project Done with substantial student involvement One major benefit for the money is that it creates an environment for givng design thinking experience to a wide swath of students (different fields), as a value independent of the explicit results that emerge Create ties to other forms of student funding (fellowships, research associated with project aspects) 5) Selection criteria based on assessment of human/institutional capacities to learn by doing as the project evolves, rather than by being able to anticipate the results. Rethinking STEM Science, creativity, engineering and new technology = SCENT "Creativity is the new math" Written on a Mac: Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.Last modified 22 May 2007 at 6:12 pm by haleden |