In the ’70s and ’80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science. John Maeda Read Quote
We seem to forget that innovation doesn’t just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience. John Maeda Read Quote
The best scientists that I’ve met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time. John Maeda Read Quote
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there. John Maeda Read Quote
As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively – especially when they are well-designed. John Maeda Read Quote
A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together. John Maeda Read Quote
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people. John Maeda Read Quote
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities. John Maeda Read Quote
