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Introduction: A Deep Dive with NAKFI
Introduction: A Deep Dive with NAKFI
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Aitken likely wanted to inspire double-takes when he showed clips of his film, called migration(empire) , to attendees during the opening session of the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI)
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For the first time in conference history, NAKFI organizers invited 14 undergraduate students from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena to problem-solve alongside established artists and scientists. Pushing scientific thought into new realms " When grappling through collaboration with colleagues from disparate disciplines has been the goal of with a foreign NAKFI meetings since the beginning.
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These tutorials allowed attendees to hit the first day at a sprint. NAKFI organizing committees meticulously curate tutorials so participants can enter conversations with a shared language and core knowledge, no matter their previous interactions with the topic.
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Robison, senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. "We often approach a challenge thinking that we know the context -- the framework -- within which we are going to examine something.
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Even though only a day-and-a-half had passed since the opening talks, the constant collaboration and repeated rehearsing made collaborators feel like old friends. The final presentations took on a theatrical tone as teams abandoned slideshow presentations and embraced dramatic lighting, computerized drawings, or short 3-D rendition films to convey their ideas.
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"This lets us capture a glimpse of the snow and reconstruct an image of the snow to study it," said Tempest Van Schaik, a biomedical engineer at Science Practice, a London based design and research firm. Before taking the stage, another group, called "Soft Robots," had enlisted the help of a handful of design students who listened carefully to marine biologist David Gruber of the City University of New York as he outlined the challenges involved with obtaining specimen samples from the mesopelagic.
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In the opening session, Robison encouraged participants to suspend disbelief if they could. "We are here to cut loose from tradition and free ourselves from convention," he said.
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Humans have no choice but to stay tethered to the blue-green Earth, covered in oceans, and work to quickly rescue the health of seas. The attendees of the NAKFI Discovering the Deep Blue Sea conference embraced and advanced the daunting challenge with rigor and daring imagination.
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10 Discovering the Deep Blue Sea
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