Open Access Short Communication

Lack of Promoting Linkages Between Scientific Creativity and The Arts

Johannes Lehmann1* and Bill Gaskins2

1Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell University, USA

2Department of Art, Cornell University, USA

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Received Date: March 11, 2019;  Published Date: March 25, 2019

Abstract

The United Nations World Creativity and Innovation Day was for the first time celebrated globally in 2018 (UN Resolution A/RES/71/284). It culminated the World Creativity and Innovation Week in April 2018 (https://www.wciw.org/) that started with Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday. Even though creativity has been implicitly highly valued in the sciences, is common in industry, and has been associated with multi-disciplinary talents such as da Vinci, it is not institutionally promoted in the natural sciences to any relevant extent. The UN delegates called for harnessing creativity to address sustainability issues, but the sciences are sorely absent from this discourse. We argue that close observation of artistic creativity will provide essential and urgently needed advice on scientific progress.

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