The Future of Work in The Creative Age. Picked this up from Cultural Commons (yes, different from Creative Commons, but good pals I'm sure) - an nice example of the new educational fusions that are demanded by a playful, info-driven age:
One example of an institution of higher education that is committing itself to preparing its students for the challenges of the new millennium and the information age is the University of California at San Diego's Sixth College. The new college's themes are art, culture and technology. Students will study the progress of humankind and its many cultures and will explore watershed events in history in which art, culture and technology converged. Provost Gabrielle Weinhausen said, for example, that during the Renaissance, the rediscovery of perspective enabled architects and artists to collaborate on the creation of maps. The key to studying events like that, according to Wienhausen, is learning how to ask the questions that illustrate relationships and patterns among disparate fields of human pursuit.
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