The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures was created to catalyze and support bold collaborations that will foster the future of scholarly inquiry.
Our mission is to nurture innovative academic configurations that may endure—and even become research and educational models to follow—thus transforming not only Arts & Sciences but also Washington University.
Transcending Boundaries
We believe transdisciplinary research and learning can help us envision better futures. The projects we support:
- Transcend the boundaries that disciplines imply—mixing and merging to lead to something new
- Are deeply linked to questions and problems that connect the academy and society
- Encourage novel thinking about future directions within traditional disciplines as well as across them
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Moving Stories’ next chapter
The interdisciplinary collaborators behind the Moving Stories project are interested in immigrant stories and in the ways in which their stories move others — emotionally, intellectually and even politically.
Michael Frachetti named new co-director of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures
Michael Frachetti has joined the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures (ITF) as its new co-director. Frachetti, who joined the WashU faculty in 2005, is a professor of archaeology and principal investigator of the Spatial Analysis, Interpretation, and Exploration Lab. He will serve as ITF co-director alongside initiative co-founder William Acree.
A Signature Initiative
The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures is a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences strategic plan.
Learn more about the plan