‘Seeding a Lead’: Exploring the Live Theatre Industry’s Reception of a Pre-Market Canadian Display Technology

Abstract

This article shares the results of a research project conducted by a multidisciplinary group formed from theatre studies, digital media, and business and technology in 2009. The research story is an unusual one for the theatre. It features access to pre-market digital display technologies for play-making, a combination of industry and federal research funding support, and a combination of artistic and business interrogation of primary stakeholders in the live theatre, its culturallynetworked industries, and theatre education communities.

Finding Productive Intersections Between Engineering and the Humanities

“…Arguments for a liberal education for engineers identify a number of positive outcomes stemming from required courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences: through immersion in the liberal arts students become more culturally aware, are capable of inter-and crossdisciplinary collaboration, have stronger communication skills, and are capable of learning outside of their discipline even after leaving the academic environment [1,3,4,5,6,9,12]. These benefits are underscored by CEAB and ABET's accreditation criteria, which stipulate minimum complementary studies requirements for the completion of an engineering degree.…”