University by Design: the Role of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in a New Technology Intensive University in Singapore Event

University by Design: the Role of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in a New Technology Intensive University in Singapore

The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), established in collaboration with M.I.T., defines its mission as nurturing ?technologically-grounder leaders and innovators to serve societal needs?. In a new, start-up university focused on engineering and architectural design, what role do the humanities, arts and social sciences play in making this overarching vision a tangible reality? What are the constraints and opportunities of building a new university from the ground up? How does this new University by Design conceive of and serve broader societal needs?
Alan L. Kolata holds concurrent appointments as Visting Professor and Head, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and as the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.  
 
Kolata holds his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1978) in the discipline of anthropology with collateral training in human ecology. His primary research interests focus on long-term human-environment interactions in Latin America and Southeast Asia