I wanted to apply to the North Atlantic Islands Residency as a young innovator because fostering an exchange of arts and sciences and cross-disciplinary collaboration and research is exactly what I am most interested in. I hope you can forgive the fact that my discipline is history, which appears nowhere on the discipline categories lists. However, I have studied the history of science and knowledge making systems (such as taxonomy) as well as history of art, alongside my own artistic practice when I studied fine art at the University of the Arts London, before I started my current paper in history (I am in my second year at Cambridge University). I am looking to write a dissertation in my final year on the role of taxonomy and objectivity in academic teaching especially in scientific subjects, and how greater cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural interaction in knowledge making would greatly benefit the current western oriented, scientific method of western academic teaching, rooted in colonial and nationalist pasts. Therefore, the opportunity to take part in such an unusual and incredible project that actively promotes exchange, dialogue and understanding between different fields of study would be so incredibly valuable to me