AEDlab is founded by Amy Whitaker and is dedicated to the role of the arts as a hub for interdisciplinary problem-solving across society and the exploration of democracy as one of the great collective art projects of our time. The purpose of the initial AEDlab symposium was consider whether experiments in the arts—ownership, contracts, collective governance, basic income, technologies of voting—can generalize to larger questions of political and economic design.
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Amy Whitaker is a faculty member at NYU Steinhardt. She works as the intersection of art, economics, and politics. The author of four books and numerous articles, she has received the Penrose Award for equitable economic proposals for artists and the Krouse and Hutchins Prizes for humane work in political science. Her book Museum Legs received the Sarah Verdone Award, and her book Art Thinking was a Silver Medalist in the Axiom Awards. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Guardian, Harpers, The Atlantic, the Financial Times, and others. She holds an MBA and an MFA as well as a BA from Williams College in art and political science and a PhD in political economy. An artist herself and someone who has worked for many years to believe in and invent ideas that are sometimes ahead of their time, she has served as an early advisor to others including TED fellows, Joan Mitchell Grantees, and founders of The OpEd Project, Bitmark, Pollinator, and Zero Art Fair. She worked previously for the artist Jenny Holzer and the Guggenheim, MoMA, and Tate, as well as for early-stage internet law research, economics of the FDA, the economic mapping company Locus and the investment fund D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. She is at work on a book about democracy as a design project.
Art Thinking as a method of teaching and research that has gained traction in management education, in the work of Whitaker and other scholars and practitioners, notably the in the work of her collaborator Sylvain Bureau and the Improbable Chair at ESCP Paris and an international Art Thinking Network.
This work was partially supported by an NYU Steinhardt Art and Culture Challenge Grant and Professional Development Grant with thanks to the Dean's Office. AEDlab is also grateful to Espacio de Culturas @ KJCC, speakers in the symposium, and the team that worked on the event. Special thanks to Neg Lakay Productions who partially donated their video services, Herman Jean-Noel, Hemamset Angaza, Jordana Mendelson, María-José Rodriguez Rexach, Azulmar Escalera, Anna Nikaki, Vonetta Moses, DeSandra Torbor, Megan Weston, Thomas Brigger, Émile Kirsch, Matt Statler, Sylvain Bureau, and all of the attendees of the AEDlab events.
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