ReImagine Science Newsletter December 30, 2019 SCIENCE TALK A Look Back at 2019

Team Science Welcome to Science Talk! February saw weekly virtual With our sights ‘microlabs’ hosted by the set on 2020, we University at Buffalo SUNY, in want to take a the 2019 Creative Scientist step back to look Workshop. This experiment is at 2019. Through part of the Science of Team observations, Science community endeavors, participation, and culminated in a two day and connections online workshop February with emerging initiatives and organizations that are taking new 26-27 (a nice touch was a views on science in , education, and societal actions, we package sent before the are growing a robust learning platform that we can share with all. workshop, with a ‘Do Not Disturb’ tag to hang outside Our year began with our STL 1.0 project through u.lab and the your office door). Presencing Institute at MIT. As a team, we have built on several years of exploring through doing, using the edX MITx Theory U co- learning processes to re-imagine how we can do science. The Presencing Institute leads co-learning journeys around the globe, Liberating Structures with Otto Scharmer, Arawana Hayashi, and many others contributing their distillations of different ways of knowing and March 13-15th was the first doing as core components of the ‘u’ process – distributed across Liberating Structures Global many contributors, each bringing their own expertise, domains of Gathering, held in Seattle WA. knowledge, and experimental journeys to share. Our ReImagine Liberating Structures was Science hub, as part of the Societal Transformation prototyping, launched in 2004 and lead a learning journey to explore the interface between developed in Latin America, academics and the systems they study – specifically, ocean systems then migrated to Europe, Asia in this learning journey. This exploration is ongoing. and the United States. More of our relationship with Liberating Structures is featured in our blog.

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More Team Science The Science of Team Science also met in Lansing, MI on May 20th-23rd. Anne Heberger Merino and Kennan Salinero were both in Lansing to take part in the 2019 conference - Kennan as part of ReImagine Science’s work and Anne’s work both with ReImagine Science, as a core lead for our STL u.lab project, and in her continuing leadership with the Science of Team Science community. ‘Rightful Place of Science 2’ Leading Change 2019 May 9th and 10th was the 20th Anniversary of ASU’s CSPO – The Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina was Center for Science, Policy, & the site of Leading Change 2019, Outcomes – ‘Rightful Place a retreat lead by the newly of Science 2’ conference at formed Leading Change Institute. Arizona State University in One of the co-founders has been Tempe AZ. We attended the a leading light in our own inaugural CSPO Rightful connections with emerging ideas Place of Science event in – Anamaria Aristabazal’s talk at 2010 as well. Systems Thinking in Action/ STIA2013 has been one we’ve shared widely. Two of us from ReImagine Science were at this training in systems change methodologies, which was convened around the question Graduation Days “How might we cultivate trusting relationships, teams, and cultures We also saw a graduation in that can innovate and thrive while our ranks. For the past pursuing the future we want?” three years ReImagine We will have more to share about Science has immensely this fantastic organization in benefited from the wise, future newsletters. youthful, and insightful weekly dialogic exchange We are also learning through with our two teen-age Kennan Salinero’s membership in advisory board members: the Global Learning Exchange Gabe Lee and Polina Popova. Network (The GLEN) – an Alexandra Naicker and Isabel H. Lee, also on the ReImagine outgrowth of the Grove in the SF Science Dougherty HS club, graduated too! Graduation on May Bay area. We have participated 31st at Dougherty Valley High in San Ramon, CA, closed one door in that cohort for the entire year, and opened another, as the saying goes. Both are now freshmen in attending the annual retreat on college, with Gabe pursuing a pre-med course of study and Poly July 15-17th in Petaluma CA, and deeply committed to social justice, the environment, and animal continuing into 2020.

ReImagine Science 2 ReImagine Science Newsletter December 30, 2019 rights. Poly’s choice of undergraduate program at San Diego State is part of a national trend in community building around social impact in the college setting (see the San Diego Union-Tribune article on the Weber Honors College here). TEDSummit Just after that was TEDSummit in Edinburgh, Scotland. ReImagine Science has been an intimate partner in the TEDx scene, starting in 2013 with TEDxLivermore in the east bay region of San Francisco, CA, and continuing on with TEDxCrescentParkLive in Palo Alto, CA. TEDx celebrated its 10 year anniversary this year. It was created as the exponentially scalable arm of TED, and is both community oriented and community lead. The new TEDx intro video, created by Chris Anderson, describes TEDx thusly (slightly paraphrased): “TEDx events take place every day, in every corner of the world - in schools, in theaters, in workplaces - even prisons where people gather together to hear ideas that bubbling up in their communities.

Over 3,000 TEDx event occur every year, in over 170 countries. They are self-organized, under license for TED, a nonprofit devoted to discovering and sharing powerful ideas in the form of TED talks. TEDx is not TED. It is put on by local teams of TEDx volunteers who do all of the work to put on the event themselves. Their ideas, dedication and time that make it possible. They select the speakers, curate the talks, and do all of the fund-raising and production.” TEDSummit was not only an opportunity to meet with other TEDx organizers from around the world, compare notes and best practices, but also the opportunity to bring u.lab’s 4D mapping process as a learning session where the line between science and was explored by a group of about 30 TEDSummit attendees, and lead by Kennan Salinero. The Bearded Lady Project We have also been participating in 500WomenScientists’ SF Bay area pod. 500Women Scientists is an international community of women scientists founded immediately after the Nov. 2016 election, publishing an open letter re-affirming their commitment to speak up for science and for marginalized communities in science, which received overwhelming response and backing (the letter was posted on Thursday, Nov. 17 in the late afternoon with 500 signatures and had over 1,200 signatures by the next morning). Currently they support 19,000 women in 100 countries, with programs designed to create greater visibility, financial support, and community. Creative cheekiness can also be found in the Bearded Lady Project at @beardedladyproject , which has been cross-tweeting with @500womenscientists. 500WomenScientists’ pod map is useful if you’re looking for a pod to join.

The Third Space: Shifing Hierarchy On March 27th we presented The Third Space: Shifting the Hierarchy of Academia to Release the Best Potential of Science to Release the Best Potential of Science co- presented with Doug Kirkpatrick, of NuFocus, to the complexity group at Stanford. We used the Third Space™ format to explore questions of underlying first principles in self-organizing systems, comparing

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Meta Science - The Science of Science September 2019 saw the launch of the conference . This two day conference was reminiscent of our convenings in Washington, D.C. in 2010 and 2012, and at the Presidio in San Francisco in 2013 with our Science Unsummits – with many of the questions in our Open Space conferences appearing on the stage in this conference convened by Fetzer Franklin Fund, Center for Open Science, UCSanta Barbara and UCBerkeley, with Stanford as host. Scientists, NGO representatives, funders, and others from around the world came to share , critiques, novel approaches and emergent practices.

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About our Mission ReImagine Science is a non-profit organization founded in Washington, D.C. in 2008 by a group of individuals interested in science who saw drastic change on the horizon. We knew it was time to create a space for exploration and experimentation that goes beyond problem-based solutions, to facilitate critical conversations for the future of science.

Design Lab props for our u.lab 3-D Mapping of ocean systems

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