@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.6776, 

TITLE={Arts and Engineering: the posture of an impostor}, 
  
AUTHOR={David St-Onge, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Art and Science}, 
	
VOLUME={9}, 

NUMBER={Special issue}, 
	
YEAR={2025}, 

URL={https://www.openscience.fr/Arts-and-Engineering-the-posture-of-an-impostor}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.6776}, 
	
ISSN={2515-8767}, 
	
ABSTRACT={This paper explores the tensions and opportunities arising from interdisciplinary collaborations between engineering and the arts. It highlights the feeling of imposture felt by practitioners working at the interface of these disciplines, due to divergent epistemological frameworks and sometimes unequal institutional recognition. The author, through his own career, analyzes how these collaborations enrich research and innovation while posing methodological and identity challenges. The article highlights three major contributions of these collaborations. First, they constitute a pedagogical lever, allowing students to broaden their approach to problem solving and to develop critical and creative thinking. Second, they accelerate access to audiences and users, by using artistic works as interactive prototypes to test the acceptability and relevance of new technologies. Finally, they promote a position of critical innovation, where the encounter between engineering and art generates new questions about the uses and impacts of technologies. Through case studies such as the DESSAIM project (dance and robotic swarms), La Mariée mise à nu par le binaire (interaction between bodies and exoskeletons) and the Tryphons (cubic aerostats) the author demonstrates how these collaborations foster critical thinking and technological innovation. He concludes by arguing for increased institutional recognition of transdisciplinary approaches and for strengthening educational programs that integrate art into engineering.}}