RITMO – A coffee machine centre
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. ...