(During our conversation, Mortensen draws a parallel between the isolationism of his character's family and the recent Brexit vote: "You are giving up something that you can only get from interacting with others, collaborating in terms of a global community or a regional community," he says).
The museum and the Barbican said they also plan to collaborate more in terms of programming.
The MoH probably represents the most critical collaborating organization in terms of providing prospects for implementation of UINCD's output.
"When we get to the point of having a big, engaged audience, we want to be able to go to brands and pick and choose who we want to work with in terms of collaborating on content," he says.
What has your team struggled with in terms of collaborating together in Phase 2 – and how did you resolve the issue?
This was also the first time the Walmart Labs team worked with one of Walmart's acquisitions, in terms of collaborating on the development of new technology together, rather than porting over technology from one place to another.
"Most of what we are doing in terms of collaborating with other researchers has to do with massive amounts of data" generated with high-throughput techniques like gene sequencing, microarrays, and mass spectrometry, he says.
" The scientific work has been okay, communication has not been good, [and] this is not the best in terms of collaborating with other partners.
Consequently, when communication was ineffective, it was perceived as having detrimental impact on the collaboration: " The scientific work has been okay, communication has not been good, [and] this is not the best in terms of collaborating with other partners.
