2014 | United States, Denmark | Documentary

Collaboration: On the Edge of a New Paradigm?

  • English 55 mins
  • Director | Alfred Birkegaard, Katja Gry Birkegaard Carlsen
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A new culture of learning is together with the Internet pushing the boundaries of research and knowledge creation. On a journey from Danish biology garages to Google's headquarters, the film explores how the Internet is changing the ways in which we do science and create knowledge. 

'Collaboration - On the Edge of a New Paradigm?' explains the philosophical and scientific development from the idea of the isolated geniuses or science created in isolated paradigms, to how interdisciplinary collaboration seems to be a requirement to face the grand challenges of todays society . The documentary ask the essential question: Are we on the threshold of a revolutionary paradigm shift? Get these insights yourself from some of the leadings minds of modern research.

The film is an experiment in collaboration and created as part of Alfred’s Birkegaard’s PhD in Philosophy.

Produced and directed by Alfred Birkegaard & Katja Gry Birkegaard Carlsen

The cast includes:
Vint Cerf
Elizabeth Stark
Douglas Thomas
Hubert Dreyfus
Terry Winograd
Howard Rheingold
Heather Heino
Joseph Jackson
Cameron Neylon
Hugh Rheinhoff
Malthe Borch
Gernot J. Abel
Ejner B. Jensen
Eddan Katz
Birger Lindberg Møller

Music is not released under a CC as the film, Please contact the musicians for the right to use their songs:
Sun and Heir
Olafur Arnalds
Moby
Fabrizio Paterlini
Kristoffer August
Rasmus Christensen
Kenneth Thordal
Rune Thorsteinsson

culture internet research knowledge creation biology evolution
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