{"id":139,"date":"2014-02-04T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T06:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediabiotope.com\/projects\/salon\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-02-05T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T04:17:01","slug":"jan-23-future-of-biotope-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediabiotope.com\/projects\/salon\/2014\/02\/jan-23-future-of-biotope-salon.html","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 23: Future of Biotope Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this session of the Biotope Salon, the members shared their thoughts about the Salon, as well as their opinions about how the Salon (or other similar informal gatherings) can be organized in the future.<\/p>\n
To begin with, Prof. Mizukoshi talked about how the Salon can mean to him.
\nFirstly, besides the \u201cformal\u201d academic activities such as research conferences or laboratory seminars, one needs some \u201cinformal\u201d occasions (such as this Salon) to nourish those still vague and not-so-logical ideas, which are nevertheless the seeds for future intellectual work. Secondly, this Salon can be seen as part of the \u201ccolony\u201d or \u201ccoral\u201d that consist of several media forms such as magazine, website, salon, and radio station (the last being the latest project of Prof. Mizukoshi, which will be discussed later).<\/p>\n
The other members then shared their experience of informal gatherings with academic friends. Lin first talked about a study group in Taiwan, of which the focus is on classical works and the members include retired and young professors as well as graduate students. Son from Korea talked about lunch gatherings among graduate students, in which one person will present his work and receive feedback from the floor. Iwona talked about study groups in Poland that \u201clive and die\u201d from time to time but nevertheless provide opportunities for young professional scholars to get feedback that are more difficult to get in formal settings.<\/p>\n