Interdisciplinary inspiration
Abstract
What if science could move us in the same way art does? What if art could have the social impact of a technological advance? David Edwards' slender book proposes that they can. A professor of biomedical engineering at Harvard University, Edwards has launched several programmes with creative and humanitarian missions. Artscience is in some respects a part of his most recent project, Le Laboratoire (see Nature 449 , 789 ; 2007 ). This Parisian cultural centre, which opened last October,...