The Science+Technology+Arts = STARTS Initiative is a program of the European Commission that encourages synergies between the arts and technology that support the innovation industry and society. STARTS promotes the inclusion of artists in research and innovation activities throughout Europe.

A hundred years after the Bauhaus movement first combined aesthetics and everyday functions, the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen vowed to set up a new European Bauhaus -an aesthetic that makes the challenges of our times visible. Moreover, the European Green Deal and UN’s Sustainable Development Goals require a concerted global effort to find new ways of acquiring knowledge and new actors to contribute to innovation.

The STARTS initiative responds to this call by setting up frameworks for scientists, technologists, and artists to work together towards more sustainable innovation. It proposes a new understanding of sustainability centered around humanity, a redefinition of the role of technology in society, as well as an acknowledgement that artistic practices can contribute to its development.

The annual STARTS Day opens an open discourse about these challenges, tackles collaborative practice at the intersection of art, technology, science and industry in conferences, workshops and networking events. This year’s online program brings together the STARTS Prize winners, STARTS community and speakers and contributors working in these fields to explore the potential of art-driven data analysis in mapping and visualizing global challenges, the impact of creating localized circular economies on the future of manufacturing and the effects of including artists in innovation processes in fashion design, spatial design and robotics. The STARTS Day visitors also get a glimpse of the STARTS exhibition at the Kepler Gardens through an online guided tour and can participate in online workshops and networking sessions hosted by collaborators and partners of the STARTS initiative.

Timetable

All times are CET.

STARTS Day: Morning Session

Midday Interventions

STARTS Day: Afternoon Session

Workshop

STARTS Day: Morning Session

Territorial Agency (INT), Lucas Evers (NL), Mar Santamaría-Varas (ES), Tactical Tech (INT), Geocinema (INT), Julie Freeman (UK), Mariana Lanari (BR/NL), Obvious Collective (FR), Prof. Elena Simperl (UK), Helene Guillaume (UK/USA), David De Roure (UK)

STARTS Talk: In Conversation with Territorial Agency; Data Deep Dive; Creating with Data: From Arts to Entrepreneurship

STARTS Day: Afternoon Session

Anastasia Pistofidou (GR), Marion Real (FR), Lucas Evers (NL), Michela Magas ( UK/SE/HR), Areti Markopoulou (GR), Karin Fleck (AT), Silke Hofmann (DE), Sophia Guggenberger (AT), Eugenia Morpurgo (IT), Filippo Nassetti (IT), Vincenzo Reale (IT), Malou Beemer (NL), Anke Loh (DE), Sandra Nicoline Nielsen (DK), Tim van der Loo (NL), Loreto Binvignat Streeter (CL/ES), Alexander Bello (BE/MX/US/CA)

STARTS Talk: In Conversation with Anastasia Pistofidou & Marion Real; Fabrication Deep Dive: On the future of sustainable manufacturing; MADE IN YOUR CITY A NEW VALUE CHAIN FOR FASHION

The intersection between Art and Industry

Rodolfo Groenewoud van Vliet (NL), Marco Duarte (PT), Ali Muhammad (FI)

In this workshop, we will dive deep into the RAMP initiative and the Better Factory project underlying collaboration opportunities and challenges between industry and arts. We will do this with the help of the STARTS Collaboration Toolkit and the Art-Enabled Prototyping process within Better Factory.

STARTS Tour

Kristina Maurer, Karla Spiluttini

The STARTS Tour showcases best practice examples at the intersection of science, technology and art. From scenarios for local, circular economies based on food-waste craft, to large-scale data driven explorations of the condition of our oceans and visionary new scenarios for sustainable data storage, the artistic perspectives at the heart of this tour tackle the big challenges that lie ahead of us through both a microscopic and a macroscopic lens.

Art-Technology-Architecture

CERTH (GR), Refik Anadol (TR/US), Maurice Benayoun (HK/FR), Tyson Hosmer (UK), Anastasios Tellios (GR), Stefanos Vrochidis (GR), Georgakopoulou Nefeli (GR)

Architecture today is a multidisciplinary knowledge platform, combining input from engineering, the humanities, and the environmental, cognitive and social sciences.

Robots are people, too

Miha Turšič (NL/SI), Madeline Gannon (US), Francesco Rea (IT), Miquel Cantero (ES), Maria Eugenia (Xenia) Beltrán (ES)

During the event, Waag showcases collaborative robotics as they are getting developed through the VOJEXT project.

Meet the S+T+ARTS community

The Science+Technology+Arts = STARTS Initiative is a program of the European Commission that encourages synergies between the arts and technology that support the innovation industry and society. STARTS promotes the inclusion of artists in research and innovation activities throughout Europe. The STARTS community as well as interested artists and experts are warmly welcome to get together in this Networking Event.

Credits

The STARTS Day has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 956603.