Facilitating Systems Thinking Through Arts-Based STEM Integration.

Engaging with socio-scientific issues often involves making sense of how - and for whom - actions, choices, and policies might affect aspects of daily life. Understanding the complexity of socio-scientific issues also requires recognizing the interconnectedness of - and working across - multiple communities and professions. We suggest that art, whether musical composition, illustrations, or sculpture / collage across materials would promote the synthesis of different types of knowledge across different scales and systems.