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

Climate Community_WM

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

Climate Swipe

Art form:
Challenge:
Engage citizens in exploring and adopting sustainable lifestyle choices while enabling the municipality to understand their needs, preferences, and obstacles, ensuring tailored support for their transition—all through a simple, interactive app.

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

Domains

Creative Inclusion

Art form:
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

Critical Thinking through Art

Art form:
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

Cultural Heritage in Action – Relating Past to Present

Art form:
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:
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

Dancing Innovation

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

Innovation leaders participating in dance-based methods led by a choreographer

Domains

CREATOR

Dantz

Challenge:
To create a community of artists, academics and festival visitors around avant-garde electronic music.

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

Challenge:
Rethinking the approach to the public and the inclusion of new technologies in museum settings

Desmusea is an artistic and cultural mediation collective that connect museums and audiences in the interstices of virtuality and face-to-face.

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