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

Digital Cleanup Day

Art form:
Challenge:
How to reduce digital waste.

The digital cleanup day is an event aims at raising awareness on digital sobriety and to perform an internal digital cleanup.

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CREATOR

Elektrart – Art and Health

Art form:
Challenge:
How to improve the quality of life of hospital patients, turning impersonal and cold spaces into comfortable places

The project is mainly aimed at patients with certain disabilities or people who have to stay in hospital for a certain period of time. Hospitals are cold places where nobody likes to be, and precisely with these digital art installations and emotional art projects, and through new media such as virtual reality, the project aim to make these stays much more bearable.

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CREATOR

Exografías

Challenge:
A reflection on how technology can be efficiently, confidently, respectfully and critically incorporated into human life through a combination of artistic and scientific methodologies, along with human-interface interaction.

The artist Amaia Vicente analyses the union between exoskeletons and her own human body to put technology at the service of human beings and increase their well-being.

Domains

Future Soundscapes

Challenge:
How to use sound and music in urban planning

Local residents are invited to create future soundscapes and reflect on the role of sound in urban planning

Domains

CREATOR

Gernikartez

Art form:
Challenge:
Promotion of literature, music and cinema through specific events and technologies that support the reduction of stress through culture among citizens

The promotion of literature, music and cinema through specific events and technologies

Gil: the reactive fish for water quality

Art form:
Challenge:
How to raise awareness and teach locals and visitors about water quality and critical coastal issues facing south Louisiana?

Gil is a real-time water quality monitoring sculpture, accessible to the large public to inform on the water quality of the Lake Pontchartain and on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, USA.

Global Water Dances

Challenge:
How to preserve our waters and create social cohesion? How to draw attention towards water issues, both locally and globally, in a creative way?

The Global Water Dances initiative connects and supports a global community of choreographers, dancers and educators to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance.

Domains

CREATOR

Green Club

Art form:
Challenge:
How to creatively engage educators and students in understanding and implementing sustainability and circular economy principles within educational frameworks.

Participants will engage in two hands-on trial workshops and a roundtable discussion on sustainability and circularity in education. They will have the opportunity to utilize the Green Club platform both during and after the workshop sessions.

House of AI: exhibitions for citizens

Challenge:
Raise awareness and understand what AI is and how to use it in the best way.

AI is presented to non-specialists thanks to diverse games and activities such as an exhibition, a giant quiz or an “escape game” to better understand what AI is, where it comes from and what are its daily applications.

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