It would be safe to say that nearly every student enrolled in college knows someone who has been impacted by cancer. After all, cancer killed nearly 8.2 million people worldwide in 2012 (World Cancer Report, 2014). Using this fact as the impetus for change we decided to make cancer the focus of a “transdisciplinary” (Marshall, 2014) collaborative effort to simulate a reciprocal-learning experience between undergraduate biology and visual art students attending a university in Southeastern Michigan. The goal of the 2015 project was to create an active and authentic collaboration utilizing the university visual art and biology curricula. By engaging and connecting scientific and artistic critical thinking processes, we wanted to know: Could we design a class structure that would enable collaborative teams of art and biology students to create a visual model that represents a hallmark of cancer designed so that the model could also stand alone on artistic merit? In other words, could cancer visualization be transformed into works worthy of gallery display while maintaining scientific accuracy? In this paper we discuss the planning, implementation, results, and impact this work has had upon the way we now envision transdisciplinary collaboration.

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可视化癌症：跨学科的艺术与生物学合作

可以肯定地说，几乎所有入读大学的学生都知道有人受到癌症的影响。毕竟，2012年，癌症在全球杀死了近820万人（《世界癌症报告》，2014年）。利用这一事实作为变革的动力，我们决定将癌症作为“跨学科”研究的重点（Marshall，2014年），以模拟在密歇根州东南部大学就读的生物学和视觉艺术专业学生之间的相互学习经验。2015年项目的目标是利用大学的视觉艺术和生物学课程，建立积极有效的合作关系。通过参与和联系科学与艺术的批判性思维过程，我们想知道：我们是否可以设计一个班级结构，以使艺术和生物学专业的学生团队能够创建一个视觉模型，该模型代表设计的癌症标志，以便该模型也可以在艺术价值上独树一帜？换句话说，是否可以在保持科学准确性的同时将癌症可视化转化为值得画廊展示的作品？在本文中，我们讨论了这项工作对我们现在设想跨学科协作的方式的计划，实施，结果和影响。