Code of Conduct

I have visited the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra over the last couple of days. During two packed days, I got to hear exciting presentations by various researchers, present how we work at RITMO, and engage in lively discussions about how best to organise interdisciplinary research activities. The “coffee machine” philosophy Many people are curious about how we run RITMO, which brings together around 60 researchers from musicology, psychology, and informatics to interact on a daily basis. There are not many centres around that are as “radically” interdisciplinary as us, to use a term commonly used by the Research Council of Norway to describe research activities crossing between the arts and humanities and the social and natural sciences. ...

At the first “Tour de RITMO”, a retreat for the whole centre, we had a group work session that resulted in the development of our code of conduct. Now, with a new group of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows that have just started on their RITMO journey, it was time to refresh the “rules”. The new version is not dramatically different than the old one, but the discussions behind it were lively. The most important change is the addition of a sixth element on ethics. ...

We had our first retreat (“Tour de RITMO”) at RITMO earlier this semester and spent some time getting to know each other properly. Based on my experience with developing a code of conduct for the NIME community, I thought it would be a good idea to do something similar for RITMO. This turned out to be a valuable process, where we worked out the different parts we wanted to include. Here it is, in case it can inspire others: ...