What Happens when an artist thinks like a scientist?

What Happens when an artist thinks like a scientist?

Here is a great example of artists and scientists working together - trans-disciplinary thinking and learning - innovation in action.

It is called the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project.

"Sometimes it takes an artist to show scientists what they’ve been missing."

Koen Vanmechelen is that artist. For the last 20 years he’s bred his own chickens as part of the Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP). That might seem strange to you and me, but not to Koen. He mixes DNA the way other artists mix colors, and uses his chickens to demonstrate cultural and genetic diversity. Besides, chickens are one of the most common animals on the planet. There are 65 million of them. They produce 60 million tons of eggs that we use for everything from food to medicine production. That makes chickens “the most important animal in the world,” to Koen, as he told me over Skype. They never fail to surprise him: “Chickens are like a mirror for human culture,” he said. " from the following link

http://bigthink.com/…/what-happens-when-an-artist-thinks-li…

What do you notice?
Look closer - what patterns do you see? What connections can you make?
Use all of your senses?
What do you wonder? What does it make you think? What questions do you have?
How can you explore? What will you collect?
What is best idea to find out? How will you document what you find?
How will you share?
Who might be interested in what you found out?