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

Human & Machine

Art form:
Challenge:
How can humans and machines communicate in a future robotic society?

Human and Machine is a psycho-technological theater experiment at the crossroads between man and machine, where the aim is to explore the encounter between man and machine in a context where they are fully engaged on stage, acting, in real time.

Domains

Hungry ecocities / S+T+ARTS residencies project

Art form:
Challenge:
How can increased awareness and technological tools impact a future where we use resources responsibly to produce and consume food ?

In Hungry EcoCities, studios, universities, growers, and agricultural specialists team up with, artists and creative thinkers to come up with new ideas for the future food system

Domains

Innovative Climate Learning, Evaluation and Action in Neighbourhoods

Art form:
Challenge:
Conventional strategies for individuals and communities often fail to provoke a change in perspectives and climate related action: how can we broaden the perspective at a systemic micro-level to trigger action ?

CLEANcultures investigates how broadening the perspective at a systemic micro-level triggers action, and how this kind of transformative learning encourages political bottom-up driven decisions

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Iris Map – “Healing Imaginative Journey for Children”

Challenge:
Helping sick children in the hospital to have a positive state of mind and give them a boost of positive energy through a Healing Imaginative Journey using film and movement.

Help people understand that they can change their state of mind and body using the tools of the method

Domains

CREATOR

Jetclay

Challenge:
How to create an opensource community around the innovation of ceramics in relation to 3D printing in order to share knowledge and develop new tools.

JetClay is an open-source Platform that explores the world of 3D printing and ceramics, relating the digital and the analogue, tradition and technology, makers and ceramists.

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KONEKTA – La perrera

Challenge:
MAKER GUNEA, within Konekta, aims to be an opportunity for the creation of groups and communities related to projects that combine research, art, development, innovation, curiosity, leisure, technological vocations, social commitment, entrepreneurship and initiative.

KONEKTA aims to act as a citizen laboratory for social and creative innovation and emerging technologies, aimed at promoting creativity, initiative, participation and social commitment, critical thinking, collaborative work and personal and community empowerment among young people. KONEKTA is a programme that offers a new range of services and activities aimed primarily at adolescents and young people (12 to 30 years old).

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CREATOR

Lazarines

Challenge:
How to use traditional cultural heritage events to spread knowledge about climate change

The environmental awareness and cultural heritage event “Lazarines” takes place in the framework of World Heritage Day and is an action for the resilience of heritage and adaptation to climate conditions, investing in new knowledge conditions

MusicForTheSea: The Posidonia project

Challenge:
Mitigate the impact and ecological footprint of tourism by impulsing collaborative, multi-disciplinary conservation projects and reconnecting citizens to nature, to better protect biodiversity

The mission of The Posidonia Project is to leverage the influential reach of the music industry to drive positive change for the ocean. Originating in Ibiza, this initiative aims to mobilize the artistic community to advocate for the sustainability of vital marine habitats through a collaborative approach bringing together artists, scientific experts and creative minds.

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Ngage Campaign

Challenge:
How to promote the Capital's Creative Industries and develop Cultural Creative Tourism through the engagement of local people and tourists in the cultural and creative industries.

Tours highlight key cultural and historical landmarks of the city, providing information on must-visit sites, including museums, galleries, and important cultural heritage locations, where cult-create workshops take place for the creation of souvenirs.

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