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

Olfaction, Réalité Virtuelle et Art en Santé (OREVAS)

Art form:
Perfume
Challenge:
Compare the effectiveness of an artistic activity on the quality of life and state of health (between art workshops with and without olfactory stimulation

The project tested the contribution of olfaction in participative artistic activities for senior citizens on their quality of life and health through face-to-face or remote workshops using virtual reality tools

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oPEN LAB

Art form:
Cultural hetitage, Design
Challenge:
Substantial improvement of energy efficiency through industrialized retrofit solutions, reducing energy demand (reduction in cost and time, high energy efficiency, contributing to the Renewal Surge). Local renewable energy generation, integrated PV and conventional overlay PV. Energy linkage between buildings (physical or virtual) enabling the use of complementarities in production-consumption patterns. Electric and thermal storage, Electric Vehicle recharging and demand flexibility.

A Living Lab to achieve energy-positive neighborhoods within existing urban contexts that are seamlessly integrated into the local energy system. In this way, an active micro-energy hub is created.

Domains

Plastic Justice

Art form:
Design, Digital media, Performing arts, Visual arts
Challenge:
How to foster new knowledge production about the effect of microplastics on health by creating and developing networks between science, relevant NGOs and the arts.

Plastic Justice is an educational programme that focuses on the long-term impact of invisible micro-plastics on the human body.

Domains

Råsnickeri

Art form:
Design
Challenge:
How to empower citizens to make their own furniture and be satisfied with what they have as alternative to wasteful consumption striving to satisfy infinite desires.

Råsnickeri (Raw Carpenting) is a method for making new furniture in wood from waste material and discarded furniture that is taught through workshops

Domains

CREATOR

Resortecs

Resortecs

Art form:
Design, Fashion
Challenge:
Through targeted innovations in the way clothes are assembled and disassembled, Resortecs empowers brands, sorters and recyclers to rise to today’s environmental challenges at the pace and scale Earth needs.

Resortecs is an eco-design frontrunner enabling circularity in the fashion and textile industries through innovative design-for-disassembly technology.

Domains

CREATOR

Ristband

Ristband

Art form:
Audiovisual, Design, Digital media, Music, Visual arts
Challenge:
Digitalising cultural experiences of great environmental and economic impact, as a contribution to the double ecological-digital transition. To democratise access to culture. Facilitate new means of remuneration for artists. Co-create, together with citizens, immersive experiences where they are active subjects.

It is a music metaverse and a gaming platform for social experiences, a virtual place to perform shows, discover music, play games, buy NFTs and hang out with friends, while promoting an alternative way of financing artists in fair way, without the intermediation of big production companies.

Domains

CREATOR

GAIA

San Fidel TEK

Art form:
Design, Visual arts
Challenge:
Reducing environmental impact through the implementation of an energy Living Lab in Urdaibai, a protected biosphere

Bringing together the energy sector and culture is a necessary challenge to promote, through co-creation methodologies, the reduction of the carbon footprint, energy efficiency and synergies between Industry and Culture and Creativity

Domains

Sonic Site Stories

Art form:
Audiovisual, Cultural hetitage
Challenge:
Cultural heritage based on oral storytelling and embodied memories risk disappearing with de-industrialization and urbanization affecting rural communities.

A project around sound, sites, stories and history where listening and oral storytelling was the key. It deals with told and untold stories and memories in villages in west Sweden. The stories are supposed to be listened to on site and are reached via a mobile page.

Stimulating dreams in the Dream Hotel project

Art form:
Design
Challenge:
Offer a structure to the visitors of the Beyeler Foundation to explore other realities as in a dream.

This exposition offers the opportunity to lucky visitors to experience flying dreams. Visitors are thus invited to sleep in the “Dream Hotel Room 1: Dreaming of Flying with Flying Fly Agarics”: where sound, sight and somatic stimulation are introduced.

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