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

CREATOR

CluBE

Climate Community_WM

Art form:
Audiovisual, Performing arts, Visual arts
Challenge:
How to engage schoolchildren to take part in the sustainable transition.

Citizen engagement, with particular emphasis on schoolchildren to educate them about the bioeconomy and encourage them to actively participate in the transition. Creation of a curriculum focusing on activities that include bio-based artistic activities, IT tools and other activities like literature, creative writing and bioeconomy quizzes and puzzles.

Domains

CREATOR

RISE

Climate Swipe

Art form:
Design
Challenge:
How to guide citizens towards sustainable lifestyle choices

A citizen dialogue tool (app) for helping citizens make more sustainable lifestyle choices together with a participatory methodolgoy.

Domains

Creative Inclusion

Art form:
Visual arts
Challenge:
Support staff to use art as a powerful tool for inclusion, communication, and expression.

A specialized six-day course designed to integrate art therapy techniques into educational settings for students with special needs

Domains

CREATOR

Erasmus+

Critical Thinking through Art

Art form:
Crafts, Visual arts
Challenge:
Employ the arts to stimulate critical thinking, enhance problem-solving skills, and foster creativity in education.

One-week course for educators exploring art and critical thinking through hands-on experiences and discussions, learning to use the arts to stimulate analytical thinking, enhance problem-solving skills, and foster creativity in education.

Domains

CREATOR

Interact

Cultural Heritage in Action – Relating Past to Present

Art form:
Crafts, Visual arts
Challenge:
Bridging the gap between historical values, beliefs, and traditions and today's educational needs.

On-site experiential learning, study visits and simulations for those who want to broaden their understanding of cultural heritage and learn how to use it as a resource for teaching

Cultuur&Campus Putselaan

Art form:
Design
Challenge:
How to develop new forms of education based on equality between local residents and institutions.

Cultuur&Campus Putselaan is a place for dialogue and collective learning, designed on the basis of the wishes and needs of local stakeholders according to sustainability and culture: residents, students, (budding) entrepreneurs, and teachers.

Domains

CREATOR

RISE

Dancing Innovation

Art form:
Performing arts
Challenge:
How can embodied practices take a more central role in innovation?

Innovation leaders took part in dance-based methods led by a choreographer

Domains

CREATOR

GAIA

Dantz

Art form:
Digital media, Music, Performing arts
Challenge:
Through a holistic vision of contemporary and electronic music, specifically, it continues with its 360º vision process, with the aim of promoting and developing electronic and contemporary music from different perspectives and levels. ‘To train and develop the knowledge of the citizens is to guarantee and promote the ‘quarry’, and therefore, the musical scene of the present and future’.

Dantz is a project laboratory and cultural brand with avant-garde and electronic music at its core. They have been developing different initiatives and projects for 6 years (Dantz Festival, Dantz Point, Dantz Agency, Dantz Academy, Dantz Wear…), which have helped them to become a reference in the sector, generating a large community of artists and various local and international agents.

Domains

CREATOR

Desmusea

Desmusea

Art form:
Audiovisual, Digital media, Visual arts
Challenge:
The universal dimension of museums, spaces for the exhibition of art, is configured according to standardised parameters. Rethinking the approach to the public and the inclusion of new technologies is a scalable challenge for any institution of this type.

Desmusea is an artistic and cultural mediation collective formed by Clara Harguindey (front-end developer) and Daniel Pecharromán (museologist and cultural mediator). They work with collections from museums and cultural institutions to articulate new stories about them through digital projects. They connect museums and audiences in the interstices of virtuality and face-to-face.

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