JSPS-RSE Joint Report: Fission-Fusion Perspectives and Complex Issues

Gathering together a series of thought pieces emerging from a Japan-Scotland symposium that brought together thinkers from across academia, culture and society to inspire more holistic understandings of mind, selves and world for the critical and creative development of our technologies, cultures and societies. JSPS-RSE Symposium Participants: Dr Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh) James Clegg (Curator, Talbot Rice Gallery), Prof. Takuo Dome (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University), Prof. Jo Gill (Head of the College of Arts & Humanities and Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow), Natasha Gilmore (Director of Barrowland Ballet), Prof. Masahiko Hara (Institute of Science Tokyo), Dr Keiko Ikeda (COIL & Kansai University), Prof. Naoto Kobayashi (Director of JSPS London), Prof. Konstantinos Kontis (Aerospace Engineering & Dean for Global Engagement, University of Glasgow), Prof. Stephen Lawrie (Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh), Dr Goro Murayama (Artist and Guest Associate Professor, University of Tokyo), Dr Yumiko Myoken (Deputy Director, JSPS London), Prof. Osamu Sakura, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, Prof. Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh Futures Institute), Jennifer Williams (Utopia Lab, Edinburgh Futures Institute).