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The project aims to advance and expand the existing SpreeBerlin project by developing a prototype (Installation) for real-time water quality visualization and further develop the existing platform (SpreeBerlin.de) . By renaming and adding more content to the platform Jakob will invite more waterbodies to become part of this project. He will collaborate with the network of European water bodies—a young coalition of 15 water initiatives advocating for the rights of water bodies across Europe—and engage Berlin's citizens, students from the TU, as well as the Motion Lab community, a start-up makerspace hub in Berlin.

Water quality sensing and visulasation device and embedded buoy

The “Greening the Lab” artistic intervention responds to an urgent need from the biomedical research community to create novel solutions and increase stakeholder support via their patient and public engagement (PPE) communities for artist-led actions which will drive forward the decarbonisation of biomedical science and healthcare and raise awareness of sustainability in this field. The project targets critical approaches to biomedical waste such as single-use plastic items and other materials commonly discarded in biomedical research and how these can be reused.

Process: new materials from biomedical waste, open source recipes.

Building on the 5 year immersive fiction The Treaty of Finsbury Park, we will work with local youth leaders to co-create a strategy that empowers young people to become stewards of biodiversity in Finsbury Park. This project seeks to empower young people to better understand the important role urban parks play in supporting varied biodiversity Develop new skills and practices in caring for biodiversity in Finsbury Park and beyond to on-going biodiversity care in Finsbury Park and beyond.

Finsbury Park community

The proposed project aims to support people to engage in repair practices to extend the life of their clothes. Wearing the clothes you own for as long as possible is a sustainable act that can contribute to a circular economy by reducing waste and keeping textiles in circulation. This project is an opportunity to explore what digital forms of craft and e-textiles can offer people involved in clothes repair. Lucie will investigate the use of e-textile samplers to increase participation in repair and work with Ealing Repair Café to support more people to develop a personal making practice.

Ealing Repair Cafe

Synocene is a collaborative work that explores a de-centered view of our anthropocentric experience of the natural world. Voices of local communities, the sounds of Natura 2000 forests, and the contributions of artificial intelligence all work to imagine a future beyond the Anthropocene. The project has been developed by artists Marina Wainer and Sam Nester, in collaboration with Isabelle Hupont, AI specialist at the JRC, and Lucia Iglesias Blanco, policy officer at Natura 2000, as part of the JRC SciArt Resonances IV programme. The project embeds AI used as a ‘fictional tool’, which allows the workshop participants to question our anthropocentric vision of the natural world. Use of reflective masks and binaural sound triggers the change in perception during the walk in the forest to have conversations with them’, within the fictional framework of Synocene (a future era bringing together all voices, human/non human/more than human), as a way of taking a step sideways in thinking about the issues at work in the SDGs in question. In addition critical approaches to ChatGPT's biases, particularly with regard to its own knowledge of the forest in question.

Ulvenhout forest residents

In 2024, the Kerry region of Ireland will host the artist-led community forum World Sensorium: Ireland to unveil the new 2025 olfactory artwork, World Sensorium. This global scent composition, created from natural botanical materials, transcends a mere sensory experience; it catalyzes dialogue on national olfactory heritage and biodiversity conservation. The forum's primary objective is to foster open communication and collaboration, particularly focusing on the transition from turf burning to bog restoration, an essential step towards a sustainable and secure future for Ireland. Historically, the aroma of burning peat has been deeply ingrained in Ireland’s national identity, officially recognized as the most distinctive cultural scent. The project aims at responding to the loss of a country’s natural olfactory heritage which can occur through various means, including climate change, natural disasters, occupation, civil war, genocide, colonial rule, and the mismanagement of natural resources.

Community leaders in a forum set in County Kerry