STEAM

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The Ars Electronica Garden Birmingham showcases STEAM education practices from across Europe and is hosted by STEAMhouse, a centre for innovation, creative thinking, prototyping and business development powered by Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Maths, based in Digbeth, in the heart of Birmingham, UK. It is a partnership between Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects, a local artist-run multiverse. Its aim is to be a space for the open, the curious and the creative that inspires people to experiment, test and develop new knowledge.

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STEAM – the concept

The Ars Electronica Garden Birmingham is hosting examples of best practices in STEAM education throughout Europe. It includes approaches from participating partners of the STEAM INC Erasmus+ knowledge alliance coordinated by STEAMhouse and presentations from the First Birmingham City University International STEAM Conference. Birmingham is also playing host to other European projects that are engaged in STEAM education, including SySTEM2020, Open Science Hub and Creative School.

STEAMhouse sees that STEAM is centered on collaboration and openness, and believes that those principles are most fully realized when the arts and the sciences are allowed to collide, for the creativity embedded in both to be released. The team at Birmingham City University is involved in a number of initiatives to develop STEAM thinking and approaches including European projects like the Erasmus+ STEAM Innovation and Curriculum, developing and hosting STEAMlabs and creating toolkits to support innovation processes. Most recently, we have organized The First BCU International STEAM Conference to bring the Sciences, the Arts, industry and academia together.

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Program

STEAM Innovation and Curriculum

Laura Veart (UK), Tom Cahill-Jones (UK)

Die Konferenz präsentiert inspirierende Beispiele für integrative und interdisziplinäre Bildung und erforscht, wie diese weiter angepasst und in anderen Bildungs- und Kulturkontexten umgesetzt werden könnten.

Creative School

Ars Electronica (AT), Dedale (FR), Cap Sciences (FR), Michael Culture Association (BE), STePS (Italy), Radiona Makerspace (HR), Heretic (UK), Chester Beatty Library (IE), Finnish Museums Association (FI).

In 2020 a generation of Europeans born during the dawn of social networking graduated into an era of social distancing and isolation. For many of them, their last days of school took place not in the classroom but on their digital devices. While the circumstances that led to this definitely were not normal, the student experience of inhabiting and interacting in the digital space was.

Co\\aborative Conc(re)te

Gareth Proskourine-Barnett (GB), Mike Dring (GB), Alessandro Columbano (IT)

Co\\aborative Conc(re)te is an ongoing conversation between the artist collective, C100, and the cityof Birmingham using architecture to examine notions of progress, change, dis-location, and discovering the lost, forgotten and misplaced works reflecting a landscape of continual synthetic flux. When a building is demolished, it becomes a ghost. Its image haunts us, reminding us of a future that never came to be. But what if previous versions of the city remain in the digital realm. Our events explore what happens when a building that no longer occupies physical space lives on within digital networks – when it ceases to exist the physical matter its occupation of virtual territories take on an added significance? We (re)construct, (re)imagine and (re)build an idea of the future, for temporary gatherings in galleries or other unexpected venues as we work across sound, digital imagery, printed works, moving images, and structural models. Using adapted archival material and found soundscapes, C100 celebrates a collective vision for the future city, one lost to the bulldozer, the other emergent from the dust.

Co-Design Workshop: Humanizing the Internet of Skills

Technische Universität Dresden (DE)

The design approach of the Industrial Design Engineering Chair at TU Dresden connects a user-centered design perspective with the engineered development of product-service systems by placing the human experience at its center. Taking into consideration customers, market and corporate requirements, we are able to develop technically, ergonomically and aesthetically convincing products and innovation studies for tomorrow’s working environment. We strive for a better understanding of the design and development process. Relevant issues relate to the connection of product and service design. In addition, we apply design methods as catalyst in diverse interdisciplinary research and innovation projects. With the help of our demonstrators, interdisciplinary research is accelerated and research results are clearly communicated and successfully transferred to other researchers, industry and/or society.

UrbanM

STEAMHouse, Birmingham City University (UK)

Urban M is an Interreg Europe project led by Birmingham City University, its aim is to support nine European Cities to develop their city and regional innovation policies to help local makerspaces thrive.

The STEAMhouse Approach

STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University (UK)

STEAMhouse is a centre for innovation, creative thinking, prototyping and business development. STEAMhouse supports entrepreneurs, sole traders, companies and citizens to build their businesses, develop products and services and bring new ideas to life. The centre supports both city and business challenges and takes an interdisciplinary approach to these issues. STEAMhouse is a partnership between Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects and funded by the European Regional Development Fund., It aims to drive innovation and research for major long-term growth across the region.

BenDit

Technische Universität Dresden (DE)

BenDit is a structure from bent wood, created at the TU Dresden as a demonstrator within the European Interreg project Adhesive Free Timber Buildings (AFTB). It has a diameter of about 3 meters and is designed to hang in the atrium of the Biology building. BenDit is a model of the deltoidal icositetrahedron. 24 identical kite-like wooden frames are connected along the edges.

STEAM INC

Ars Electronica (AT), Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin (IE), Birmingham City University (UK), University of Arts London: Central Saint Martins (UK), Aalto University (FI), Technische Universität Dresden (DE), University of Amsterdam (NE)

Rapid change requires rapid adaptability, and our capacity to adapt is informed by our ability to integrate diverse approaches. To accommodate this, higher education has needed to transcend an historically embedded approach to learning that has seen different types of knowledge segregated across disciplinary silos. Policy ambitions throughout Europe and across the world have recognized that knowledge in science, engineering and mathematics need to be nurtured to engage with rapid advances in technology. However, it has also become increasingly evident that art as a unique and adaptive form of knowledge should also be combined with our approach to STEM education. Art thinking offers a holistic way of understanding complex connections and can act as a translator between different communities of knowledge. By including art, STEAM education ensures that there is an interdisciplinary switchboard operator actively integrating different approaches to solving the same problems we face today.

SYSTEM2020 Learner’s Perspectives

Discover how learners involvement with out of school science education has allowed them to expand their knowledge and adapt with the changing world around them.

OSHub.Network

Ars Electronica (AT), Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin (IE), Impact Hub Siracusa (IT), La Casemate (FR), Onl’Fait (CH), SCIENCE IN (CZ), Município de Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo (PO), SciCo (GR)

The pace of change in society – from technological innovation to global interconnectedness – is rapidly increasing and has fundamentally altered the way people live, work and learn. Moreover, the societal challenges of the 21st century bring with them an urgent need to integrate the knowledge and expertise of different societal actors, and to develop meaningful and inclusive ways of connecting schools, universities, enterprises, civil society, governments and local communities using more innovative, efficient and open methodologies.

SYSTEM2020 Map

Science learning initiatives outside the classroom are crucial in educating and forming Europe’s next generation of researchers and innovators. By gaining insights into these initiatives all around Europe SySTEM 2020 wants to gain a better understanding of the types and kinds of programmes in operation, learn from each other and collaborate to be able to respond to challenges ahead. The SySTEM 2020 map is an online visualisation tool where over 2000 STEAM initiatives or projects are mapped providing a network of organisations for you to connect with. For the general public it offers a way to find informal learning initiatives in their area. For organisations it offers the opportunity to get connected and gain visibility as a collective community within Europe.

Demystifying Arts and Sciences through Playful Creative Technologies

Jo Berry (UK)

Jo Berry has implemented playful, creative methodologies to seek art’s value, purpose and interpretational impact when it takes as its start point advanced imaging and microscopy. Her claim is that art can be a significant contributing factor to new directives in advanced imaging and microscopy; its impact intensified through applying play as a method to interrogate ideas, processes and outcomes. She offers a new model of research, which engages play as the critical driver to accomplish a more agile, accessible and open method of examining science via a different set of criteria. This hypothesis is based on my own prior experience as a researcher working directly with scientists and experiencing scientific method where I became convinced that artists should be central to scientific inquiry not just working on the periphery. As it would seem there needs to be a paradigm shift within science which, she claims, can be activated through examining play through art and identifying its effect on aspects of culture, creativity and aesthetics.

STEAM alignment across different educational levels at the University of Amsterdam

University of Amsterdam (NL)

This approach to STEAM education covers two programmes taught at the University of Amsterdam (UvA): the BSc Information Studies (three years) and the MSc Information Studies (one year) which are both located in the Computing Department. The approach provides students on both levels with room for exploration of the field based on shared activities mainly through project work. The aim is to provide students with technological, human and societal insights (theories, models, system implementations) so that they can comprehend and place themselves in the field of information science. The programmes are aimed at students from a mixture of subject backgrounds but joined in the desire to solve complex societal problems, using ICT and digital media.

A Hybrid STEAM approach from the MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins

University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins (UK)

The MA Arts and Science (MAAS) is a two-year Master’s programme, founded in 2011, recruiting students from different disciplinary backgrounds across the arts, sciences and humanities. The course builds a STEAM community utilising a shared studio space as a resource and setting for collaboration and cooperation. The philosophy of the course brings together different knowledges and aims to create a non-hierarchical platform for students, disciplines and methods.

STEAM Education in Europe II

Participating Gardens: Birmingham – STEAMhouse, Castelo di Rodrigo – Open Science Hub, European Platform for Digital Humanism – Creative School

Die Frage, was Kreativität und Vorstellungskraft ausmacht, ist ein potenziell strittiger Punkt. Trotzdem kann eine Sichtweise, die sich auf Überschneidungen von Kunst und Wissenschaften konzentiert, kann zu bestimmten, konkreten Vorteilen führen. Dazu gehören Techniken der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit, die Fähigkeit, unterschiedliche Perspektiven zu berücksichtigen, und die Fähigkeit, Gemeinsamkeiten zu erkennen. Solche Kompetenzen sind kombinatorischer Natur und können, wenn sie in einen Hochschullehrplan integriert werden, zu einer Beschleunigung der transdisziplinären Innovation führen. Besuchen Sie uns in unserem Birmingham Garden, wenn wir mit einigen der führenden transdisziplinären Institutionen in Europa Ansätze für die STEAM-Ausbildung erkunden.

STEAM Education in Europe I

Participating Gardens: Birmingham – STEAMhouse, Amsterdam – NXT Museum, European Platform for Digital Humanism – STEAM INC

STEAM Approaches at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin

Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin (IE)

Science Gallery Dublin was founded at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin in 2008, with a mission to ignite creativity and discovery where science and art collide.

Arts for All: Aalto University-Wide Art Studies

Aalto University (FI)

The University-Wide Art Studies (UWAS) programme at Aalto University offers all students, irrespective of discipline, the chance to explore and study art and design-based practices and processes. This is a vehicle for the wider ambition of the institution to encourage the formation of transdisciplinary communities of teachers, students and researchers, with a view to tackling global challenges in imaginative and meaningful ways. There is an understanding that art and design should be considered to have a deeper purpose than the simply aesthetic: creativity can help society to be renewed.

STEAM Education in VR + AR

Participating Gardens: Birmingham – STEAMhouse, Sydney – Tactical Space Lab, European Platform for Digital Humanism – STEAM INC

Wie können wir belastbare institutionelle Strukturen schaffen, die sich selbst anpassen? In dieser Tour werden wir eine Auswahl der teilnehmenden Gärten besuchen, die mit institutionellen Modellen experimentieren, die sich an zukünftige Herausforderungen anpassen können.

STEAM Approaches at Technische Universität Dresden

Technische Universität Dresden (DE)

The Technische Universität Dresden presents a number of approaches that employ concepts closely connected to STEAM and are transferred into/developed for teaching.

Aalto Biofilia: A journey into the biological arts

Aalto University (FI)

Biofilia is a technical facility at Aalto University for studies in the biological arts as a fast-emerging area of interest that fits succinctly with STEAM approaches in artistic practice. It adopts transdisciplinary knowledge sharing to research and curriculum development to explore the intersection between biosciences, engineering and the arts. 

STEAM Fellows in Conversation

Steve Harding (UK)

Meet Dr Steve Harding, coordinator of BCU’s STEAM Fellows Programme, as he talks with Mark Brill (Art, Design, Media), Kusminder Chahal (Business, Law, Social Sciences) and Tychonas Michailidis (Computing, Engineering, Built Environment) about their transdisciplinary projects and how they will help to stimulate engagement across the University.

Oh My, What Now?

David Gillette (US)

Dr David Gillette from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo delivers the keynote presentation for First BCU International STEAM Conference on future-focused storytelling, interactive design and sustainable futures. Dr Gillette is founder and Co-Director of the Liberal Arts and Engineering Programme at Cal Poly.

Thinking Deeper with STEAM

Rehan Bhana (UK)

Explore connections between academia and industry, learning about our PhD Hub and how STEAM thinking can help businesses tackle challenges through developing deeper perspectives, with Rehan Bhana, Associate Professor at BCU.

Extending Reality: Introducing the Past, Present and Future of Immersive Media

Adam Paigge (UK)

Join STEAMhouse Extended Reality Technician Adam Paigge in his talk about XR, how this can support STEAM collaboration and the ways in which STEAMhouse is leading such approaches in the West Midlands.

Building Interdisciplinary Communities

Deborah Hustic (HR)

Hear from Deborah Hustic, Artistic Director at Radiona makerspace in Zagreb, Croatia, as she outlines her work in STEAM, making and creative investigation.

First BCU International STEAM Conference

STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University (UK)

Aimed at all those curious about cross-disciplinary thinking, researchers, innovators, industrial leaders, artists, scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians and those not bounded by their sectors, joined the First BCU International STEAM Conference in July 2020.

STEAMhouse: Make to Innovate

Clayton Shaw (UK), James Hannam (UK)

In this presentation from the First BCU International STEAM Conference you will learn about STEAMhouse, BCU’s centre for collaborative innovation, through an introductory talk from Programme Manager Clayton Shaw and Prototyping & Operations Manager James Hannam.

The Night Sky: Unveiling What Only the Dark Reveals

Open Science Hub – Portugal, Municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo (PT)

Open Science Hub – Portugal (OSHub-PT; Plataforma de Ciência Aberta) is a social innovation project that brings together science, technology and innovation with the daily life of local and regional communities, supporting schools and societal actors in tackling local relevant challenges. It is a project of the Municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in collaboration with Leiden University.

VR – VirtualReality, STEAMhouse (UK)
Credit: STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University (UK)

CTN Computer Telecommunications & Networks, STEAMhouse (UK)
Credit: STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University (UK)

BCU STEAM house 1st Birthday-, STEAMhouse (UK)
Credit: STEAMhouse, Birmingham City University (UK)

Project Credits / Acknowledgements

The Ars Electronica Garden Birmingham – STEAM is included within the framework of STEAM INC and has been funded with the support of the European Union and the Erasmus+ Programme.
STEAMhouse: Patrick Bek (UK), Tom Cahill-Jones (UK), Clayton Shaw (UK), Laura Veart (UK)