If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight, the 'in-betweens,' and become fortunately entangled, moving from art to science.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of crossing boundaries between different disciplines, like art and science, to foster creativity and innovation.
Neri Oxman's quote encourages a mindset that embraces the blending of different fields of knowledge and creativity. By referencing Cinderella and the concept of 'suspending disbelief', she highlights the potential for wonder and discovery that lies in exploring the 'in-betweens' of disciplines. This fusion can lead to unique insights and advancements, showing that boundaries are meant to be transcended for the sake of innovation.
In practice
During a creative workshop, you could use this quote to inspire participants to think beyond traditional boundaries.
Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
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