Dr David Overend, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, took part in this year's Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas takes public engagement into the thick of the world’s largest arts festival providing opportunities for audiences to discuss and debate cutting edge and controversial research with experts. Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, and now in its eleventh year, CODI is sixty minutes of rapid-fire research from some of the finest minds in the country.
Members of the Centre for Research in Digital Education went along to support David. Thought provoking and entertaining, David challenged us to think beyond disciplinary boundaries to imagine how we might work collaboratively to address global challenges.
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How can we respond to an increasingly complex and challenging world? Can we stop playing by the rules? We need playful, messy, and unpredictable spaces where new approaches can be developed. Dr David Overend (The University of Edinburgh) explores a series of wild and weird experiments with artists, scientists and geographers; then asks some difficult questions about how we should work together, share ideas and respond to the big challenges facing our world today. Can we all become a bit less disciplined?
