Stevens Institute of Technology truly lives at the crossroads of inspired collaboration, where artists and researchers meet to make the world a better, and more beautiful, place. Stevens faculty break down disciplinary walls to make way for new discoveries that bridge the artistic and the scientific.
A collaboration between Dr. H. Quynh Dinh, Department of Computer Science, and artist Ebon Fisher, Department of Art, Music, and Technology, explores "synergies between creativity and information technology, science, engineering, and design research" was recently funded by the National Science Foundation. The project is titled "A 'Transderivational' Search Engine for Creative Analogy Generation in Mixed-Media Design." Click to continue article.
Dr. Dilhan Kilyan, Director of the Highly Filled Materials Institute in Stevens' Department of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering, is working with artist Jackie Brookner, creator of public art projects called biosculptures, "living sculptures that use the capacity of carefully chosen plants to clean and filter water." Together, they will create new material for Brookner’s moss-covered sculptures, and Dilhan will have invented a new plastic that could be utilized for urban water runoff.