This year CREARE starts with a series of workshops on value-based approach to emerging commonning practices in the cross-section between arts, science and policy making. As part of GLAMMONS, we are exploring how the Joint Research Center SciArt residency change the perspectives on social and nature pressing issues through bottom up creative collaborations, including co-production and co-curation.

The overarching aim of the collaboration Between CREARE and the JRC SciArt residency is to provide bottom-up input to the understanding and assessment of common participatory practices that emerge around community-led cultural settings and understand: (1) What drives different groups to collaborate and co-create?;  (2) How the collaboration change the practices of the different stakeholders?; (3) How science, arts and policy converge to act towards common solutions? We believe with this research we can contribute to deep and empirical-based knowledge about the transformations that creativity and culture–led practices generate through bottom-up collaboration and decision-making processes.

Since 2016, the JRC SciArt project has been encouraging scientific and social innovation by facilitating the co-production between scientists, artists, curators, policy makers and citizens that shape solutions to the urgent societal questions.

In this context, CREARE met with the management team and the the curatorial committee of the JRC SciArt in Brussels at IMAL Museum, a venue for creative initiatives centered on the innovative and critical application of emerging technology. With a focus on art, science, and technology, IMAL uses its special position as a platform to connect different groups and perspectives by creating a bridge between the professional field and a broader audience.

Stay tuned!