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

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.

Olfaction, Réalité Virtuelle et Art en Santé (OREVAS)

Art form:
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

Domains

oPEN LAB

Challenge:
How local culture and heritage can contribute to energy-positive neighborhoods

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.

Plastic Justice

Challenge:
How to raise awareness about the long-term effects of micro-plastics on health through creating and fostering new knowledge and developing cross-academic networks between scientists, relevant NGOs and art institutions.

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:
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

Resortecs

Art form:
Challenge:
How to help textile players to transition from linear to circular production.

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

Domains

CREATOR

Ristband

Challenge:
How to use digitization of cultural experiences of great environmental and economic impact as a contribution to the double ecological-digital transition.

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

San Fidel TEK

Art form:
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

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.

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