Ground Works is a platform for exemplary arts-inclusive research projects and reflection on the processes that drive interdisciplinary collaboration.
Call for Submissions
Latest Announcements
a2ru Ground Works Panel Explores Art-Science Collaboration
May 4, 2022, Please join:
-Moderator Joey Orr, Curator for Research at the University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art
-Interdisciplinary team comprised of video artist Janet Biggs, mathemat...
MoreApril 13, 2022
a2ru Ground Works Receives CELJ Honorable Mention
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) has awarded Ground Works an Honorable Mention for Best New Journal in 2021. CELJ announced the award at this year's Modern Language Association (...
MoreMarch 24, 2022
Newly Published Article on *Ground Works*
a2ru and the Ground Works editorial staff send out congratulations to Edgar Cardenas, Kevin Hamilton, and Sandra Rodegher on the publication of their paper about Ground Works, "The Future of Ar...
MoreJanuary 24, 2022
Featured Articles
From 2009-2011, we worked together at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Broad Institute, n.d.), building on a study (Lieberman-Aiden & Van Berkum et al., 2009) that made it possible to explore how the human genome, the DNA contained in every cell of the body, folds in 3D. At the outset o...
Unfolding the Genome
Gupi Ranganathan, Erez Lieberman Aiden, and Aiden Lab
Choreografish is a participatory research project leveraging virtual reality, arts engagement, and design to collaborate with young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research team was motivated by a combination of observations: that some people with ASD experience social anxiety and...
Choreografish: an arts-based, virtual reality, anxiety intervention for autism
Eric Handman, Roger Altizer, Cheryl Wright, and Greg Bayles
“Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork” was a two-year research project that explored the construction of identity through the act of singing. The heart of the project was a six-month laboratory period in which the three of us worked closely together, on a full-time basis, as skilled perfo...
Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork
Ben Spatz, Nazlıhan Eda Erçin, and Agnieszka Mendel
View all published articles
Recent Commentaries
Last Word on Reviewing “Choreografish” for Ground Works
Reviewer commentary by Veronica Stanich on Choreografish: an arts-based, virtual reality, anxiety intervention for autism
Delight, because Ground Works is so young, and so many risks have been taken but not all of them have proven fruitful (yet), and it’s very satisfying to see confirmed our hunch that reviewing together could be a generative thing.
Groundwork for Ground Works
Commentary on Cultural Engagements in Nutrition, Arts and Sciences (CENAS)
As early groundwork for Ground Works, a2ru invited submissions of interdisciplinary projects. Six of those projects played a seminal role in shaping the platform and helping to define the a2ru transdisciplinary space.