Seeds repository

Welcome in our InteractionSeeds repository. We aim at facilitating knowledge valorisation by testing, sharing and promoting good practices. This repository gathers examples of artistic and cultural interactions (the so called "Interaction Seeds") that have demonstrated positive effects to co-create solutions or communicate Science to citizens, and that are easily replicable.

About the repository

InteractionSeeds motivations are to humanize technology, take science out of the lab, encourage critical thinking, challenge technology, and explore new path to progress.
For this, artistic and cultural organizations have a unique set of skills. Arts-based methods creates conditions for knowing, experiencing and strengthening relationships with the world through signs, forms, actions and objects.
 
Applied to research, the goal is to imagine solutions for a better and more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future.
 
By the implementation of InteractionSeeds, we mean the implementation of artistic or cultural interactions.
These interactions are defined as an activity that takes the form of an artwork, such as:

Visual arts including artistic crafts

Music

Audiovisual and multimedia

Literature

Archtecture and design

Artistic performances

Festivals

Domains

“The Best Option” Short Movie

Art form:
Cinema
Challenge:
Introducing a political debate in a human manner

A movie on AI has been developed to introduce a political debate at the European Parlament on AI.

#ItIsNotTooLate Seagrass beds

Art form:
Visual arts
Challenge:
Engage citizens in the protection of their natural environment, reconnect them to nature and increase acceptance of nature based solutions.

The installation “See glass again” was built through a series of public workshops attended by hundreds of residents, students, cultural workers, mountaineers and regional and international activists.

Domains

CREATOR

ACCRO

3C WORKSHOP

Art form:
Digital media
Challenge:
Bringing students from different field of studies to tackle a socioeconomic challenge.

3C workshop stimulates the creative spirit of students in response to an innovation challenge presented by an organisation.

Domains

All she likes is popping bubble wrap

Art form:
Audiovisual, Design, Performing arts
Challenge:
How can archival footage feel fresh and relevant in a contemporary contex of media manipulation and archival reinterpretation?

The title of the performance refers to the sound produced by a seemingly purposeless and indifferent action: popping bubble wrap.

Domains

Archive of Desire

Art form:
Audiovisual
Challenge:
A challenge addressed by the seed is the need to foster cultural appreciation and understanding in a diverse and globalized society

On the 160th anniversary of C.P. Cavafy’s birth, the Onassis Foundation in New York presents a festival highlighting the influential nature of the Alexandrian poet and the global impact of his work

Domains

CREATOR

CERN

Arts at CERN

Art form:
All
Challenge:
Stimulate the creativity of fundamental researchers

The initiative aims at forstering the dialogue between artists and physicists at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory

Domains

Autofabricantes

Art form:
Design, Digital media
Challenge:
Access to low-cost technologies and the logics of free culture imply the possibility of generating customisable and adaptable alternatives for each body.

A collective research project that develops personal technical assistance and works on the generation of free knowledge for autonomy and quality of life, using digital fabrication and involving families, users, technicians and anyone who wants to participate in co-production processes.

Domains

CREATOR

RISE

Building Homes Building Girls

Art form:
Crafts, Design
Challenge:
Addressing the need of practical knowledge and increased awareness of recycled materials and engaging young people, in particular girls into practical work with climate change

Young people get the opportunity to work together on building objects with recycled materials. The participants will get support from theater educator/artist and carpenter in a hands-on workshop that lasts from 2 hours -a whole day

Domains

CREATOR

RISE

Carbon Dioxide Theatre

Art form:
Performing arts
Challenge:
Improvisation workshops where actors, researchers and designers collaborate with youngsters to understand climate knowledge, address their anxieties and come up with ideas for positive actions relevant to their lifestyles.

Improvisation workshops where actors, researchers and designers collaborate with youngsters to understand climate knowledge, address their anxieties and come up with ideas for positive actions relevant to their lifestyles.

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