Why the name ‘Interchange’?

Science and communication are all about exchange.

Science and communication have in common something called the CHIASM.

The word CHIASM comes from the Ancient Greek for a crossing.

A CHIASM happens in biology when chromoses exchange genes.

The CHIASM is also a figure of speech in rhetoric. It happens when two sentences have the same elements, but inverted.

In both cases, there is an exchange, a crossing over between two things, so that each thing takes on some element of the other.

Annamaria’s background in philosophy and social studies of science and her curiosity about the overlaps between science and the arts led her to notice and become fascinated by this idea of exchange and crossing over that occurs in both of them and drives their creativity.

Interchange Research aims to foster exchange for productive collaborations between scientists of different disciplines, and between scientists and industry, governance or policy partners.