1.5. Challenges for institutions and funding bodies

Some challenges for institutions and funding bodies are: Provide opportunities for open-ended creative experimentation which may have no short term market application. - Foster investment not only in technical infrastructure or in traditional, ‘content‘, but also in media projects that create access and participation. - Make small-scale and short-term project funding available. - Provide for long-term structural support. - Create structures that support projects based on methodology as opposed to subject - Promote “cross bridges” between university departments, research labs etc. - Recognize non-traditional outcomes – such as public manifestations, documentaries, etc. - Support and fund applied to science labs in universities (support actively interdisciplinary work), give accreditation for interdisciplinary contributions, pay extra-money for interdisciplinary contribution in universities (courses, presentations, lab work). - Support investigation within the “wild”.