Art & Science Initiative

Art & Science Initiative Art & Science Initiative is a platform that brings the exploratory nature of both art and science to new arenas. We want to foster new ideas.

We create new knowledge from passion-driven interdisciplinary collisions and accelerate their implementation into real-world solutions. ASI stems from the current community’s of both worlds, with talented minds willing to explore new ideas but who can’t find the place to do so within their current institutions. Today, when we are facing new, urgent and complex challenges that ask us to redefine ou

r worldview - new ideas and strategies are needed. We see changes environmentally, economically and in the patterns of migration. We also see a speed in the development of technology, education and a growing sense of connectedness and interdependence. This platform wants to encourage and push trans-boundary meetings, open debates and spread new solutions. We see a natural venue for exploration between art and science (but not exclusively) within the fields of technology, architecture, education and innovation. The “bringing-together” minds from different areas in an exploratory setting, to turn perspectives, create collective knowledge over specific areas will give a diverse output. But first and foremost - a possibility to actively open up and rethink the models now standing. ASI is building a home for new generations of thinkers and doers — an open environment for thought, inquiry and collective action.

From its inception in 2018, we have been amazed to see how What Matter_s has continuously developed. Now manifested in a...
04/12/2020

From its inception in 2018, we have been amazed to see how What Matter_s has continuously developed. Now manifested in a 2.0 iteration led by Form/Design Center with inspiring and deeply collaborative projects between designers and companies → The coolest contemporary design initiative right now, according to Dezeen!!
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/12/02/designers-products-waste-materials-metabolic-processes-leftovers-exhibition/?fbclid=IwAR0j3Pn5WlcBlTNtFPN9_QQbHSPa6I_qy-PzWXGTKk9PsLbIQT32pJxRgVc

Six Swedish design studios have produced items and materials from industrial waste, including pedestals made from ash and flowerpots from apples.

The future has come to meet us. And it hurts as hell.With the largest climate mobilization in history as the backdrop, F...
24/09/2019

The future has come to meet us. And it hurts as hell.

With the largest climate mobilization in history as the backdrop, Financial Times publishes this video. Let that rest with you for a while, savor the significance.

We are sensing a new unyielding, ferocious momentum and agency. The environmental consequences of human development have shown us that we hold immense power. Yet we are left feeling impotent when it turns against us.

How can we create sense of caring about the future that is deep-rooted enough that we simply can't help ourselves from acting to preserve it?

We first have to realize that we are on our own. It is us, and it is now. We are emerging from an industrial and technological revolution that equally saved and doomed us. We made science and technology an external force, disconnected from our humanity in much the same way as we used to think of gods. The responsibility was simply not ours.

Technology, industry and science are as human as culture, philosophy and art. They will be key in creating the culture and value shift that we will need to see. So, to open the eyes of our collective consciousness we need to flood the future with every drop of humanity we have left. In a future of information, automation and artificial intelligence we need to make room for our stories, feelings, emotions and experiences. We need to paint them with our colours. Then maybe we will stop questioning and ignoring and start cleaning up our own mess. We are responsible, we are alone (it is us), we are powerful.

'The future has come to meet us'. Ahead of the UN Climate Summit the FT and The Royal Court collaborate on a short drama exploring inaction on climate change. Actress Nicola Walker, transmitting news from 2050, asks why we 'never really learnt how to talk about this'.

👏 Designing for Confluence Read the Disegno story about the _What Matter\ _s_ project that connected designers with mate...
24/01/2019

👏 Designing for Confluence
Read the Disegno story about the _What Matter\ _s_ project that connected designers with material researchers to explore what happens when these two worlds collide.

The result? Innovative new materials, prototypes and processes as well as an exposition showcasing the ideas at the Dutch Design Week.

We already know that some of the designer+researcher teams will continue working togehter, which is fantastic. Now we are hoping this pilot of groundbreaking exchange and collaboration will inspire others and that this model can also live on in Skåne, Sweden.

The _What Matter\_s_ project in southern Sweden proposes a model in which the sciences and design might profitably interact.

Check out the amazing video by science-communicators Charlie Jones and Lina Kabbadj about our Multi-Sensory Experience a...
16/12/2018

Check out the amazing video by science-communicators Charlie Jones and Lina Kabbadj about our Multi-Sensory Experience at the London Science Museum.

Thanks to all involved, it was a blast!

On Oct 31st, 2018, researchers in astrophysics at Imperial College London and human-computer interaction at the University of Sussex created an installation ...

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