Curiosity drives human inquiry and shapes how people learn, create, and solve problems across
art, science, and technology. It draws individuals toward uncertainty and sustains engagement
with complex ideas. This conference highlights the Confluence of Art, Science, Technology, and
Curiosity is a space in which disciplinary boundaries blur and methods and interpretive frames
move fluidly between fields. This “confluence zone” enables new forms of reasoning and
representation. The liberal arts offer interpretive depth, science provides structured investigation,
and technology expands human capability through material and computational tools. Curiosity
connects these domains by guiding inquiry and enabling shifts in understanding.

The intersection of  Art–Sci–Tech  already defines contemporary practice. Artistic research draws
on scientific imaging, computation, and data visualisation. Scholars in the liberal arts and
practicing artists engage with digital archives, algorithmic tools, and interactive media. Scientists
employ narrative, metaphors, and visual composition to convey complex ideas. Technologists
draw from design, performance, and storytelling to prototype interfaces and build new systems.
Curiosity fuels these exchanges by motivating experimentation and enabling close engagement
with unfamiliar materials and perspectives.

The conference invites participants to examine these crossings, share insights from practice, and
research, and reflect on how curiosity shapes discovery, creativity, and problem-solving within an
interconnected Art–Sci–Tech landscape.

 Why this theme now? 

As environmental, social, and technological challenges intensify, curiosity is essential for flexible
thinking. The liberal arts, contemporary art practices, science, and technology increasingly
overlap in how problems are defined and approached. This theme brings these intersections into
focus and invites new conversations on how curiosity shapes meaningful work.

Purpose and Scope

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•  Explore the intersection of Art–Sci–Tech, a space where diverse disciplines engage in

• dialogue on curiosity and innovation.

• Examine how the liberal arts, fine and contemporary arts, science, and technology draw

• from forms of curious inquiry.

• Demonstrate how curiosity can inform new educational, research, and public-facing

• approaches.

• Highlight connections between curiosity, innovation, pedagogy, cultural expression, and

• social change.

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Major Themes

Intersections of Art–Sci–Tech – Hybrid practices that merge analytical, creative, scientific and technological thinking.

• Curiosity & Education – How curiosity shapes learning within schools, universities, and informal contexts, and how integrative art-liberal arts-sci-tech approaches support deeper understanding.

• Curiosity Research – How curiosity interacts with cognition, emotion, memory, attention, decision-making, and creative problem-solving.

• Curiosity & Social-Behaviour Change – How curiosity supports public engagement, community participation, empathy-building, and shifts in social norms.

• Curiosity in Fine Arts, Contemporary Arts, and the Liberal Arts – How artistic and humanistic inquiry invites exploration, ambiguity, interpretation, and new forms of meaning-making.

• Curiosity & Cognition – Interdisciplinary research on how curiosity functions in the brain and how it can be cultivated.

 

Call for Contributions

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• Papers, work-in-progress reports, and posters across all themes.

• Creative practice submissions (visual, literary, performative, narrative, and interactive works).

• Research demonstrations and tech-based exhibits.

• Workshops on curiosity-driven making, inquiry, and reflection.

• Panels that bring together practitioners from academia, industry, education, arts, humanities, and community sectors.

• Researchers, educators, practicing fine artists (traditional and contemporary), liberal arts scholars, technologists, designers, students, community practitioners, and policy-makers interested in curiosity, interdisciplinary inquiry, creative technologies, and integrative pedagogy.

Additional Themes:

 

Alternative and Inclusive Education Models

(about models of schooling beyond mainstream)
Focus: Community-led schools, homeschooling, indigenous knowledge, democratic classrooms, equity in access, community ownership in school, and local community ownership.

Innovations in Pedagogy and Learner-Centric Practices

(about methods inside classrooms)
Focus: Classroom strategies, experiential learning, critical thinking, arts-based and play-based methods, contextual learning,

Technology and the Future of Education

(about tools and systems, not methods.)
Focus: Digital transformation, AI tutors, virtual labs, data privacy, blended learning.

Psychology of Learning, Motivation & Curiosity

(about human factors)
Focus: Educational psychology, curiosity research (human and animal), positive psychology, behavioral change.

Policy, Systems & Governance in Education

(about structures and governance)
Focus: Institutional frameworks, public-private partnerships, regulation, scaling models, funding mechanisms.

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Submissions may include theoretical frameworks, experimental studies, applied research, or interdisciplinary approaches. Selected abstracts will have the opportunity to present posters during the conference.​​​

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