Q. What do you mean by think tanks?

A. A forum that would allow a variety of the people of different ages and from different disciplines, industries, and institutions to get together to identify and discuss the emerging social trends and how do we want to affect those. How do we want to engage what’s happening in the world around us?

It is also more than a one-day affair for this think tank. To really develop concepts, you need some longevity—maybe not necessarily that it all goes on in the same place but the same goals within the think-tank concept.

Thoughts about peer review
The notion of peer review is intriguing because of the concept of the quality that the AIA grant could bring to knowledge formation. That information and knowledge becomes very credible because of peer review. What I like about the idea of peer review is that the Institute doesn’t necessarily have the ability to vet content as well as it could, and this could help establish credibility. If you researched it some and you have peer review by individuals who also have expertise in the content, that’s a credible review of the content. Peer review is really an interesting vehicle to formalizing the step to creditability.

You also have to keep in mind that peer review is not a one-way kind of thing. It’s a conversation. By putting a piece of work into the peer-review process, you are able to enlarge what you’ve done with other people’s expertise. So, it’s really essential to be collaborative in the process of a peer review.

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