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TIDAL ArtS: TransformIng anD inspiring Aquatic Landscapes through Art and Sciences

Project description

Art and sciences to protect and restore aquatic landscapes

Climate change and biodiversity crises are having a catastrophic impact on the ocean and inland waters. Creative, interdisciplinary approaches involving citizens are urgently needed to help us think out of the box to solve these challenges. In this context, the EU-funded TIDAL ArtS project aims to address environmental and biodiversity crises by uniting art, science, and communities to raise awareness and inspire creative solutions for protecting and restoring our ocean and inland waters. The core of the project will be the implementation of four open calls for artists to co-develop artistic works with scientists, citizens and non-human actors. The project seeks to challenge the traditional separation of nature and culture, by inspiring the participants and individuals who interact with the produced art works to take action for our ocean and waters.

Objective

TIDAL ArtS: TransformIng anD inspiring Aquatic Landscapes through Art and Sciences will reconcile the dichotomy of human versus nature, tackling the current climate, environmental and biodiversity crisis. To this end, art and science will work in alliance with civil society, citizens, cultural and technological institutions to increase awareness about the challenges faced by the ocean and inland waters and inspire the mobilisation of creative solutions for their protection and restoration. TIDAL ArtS puts forward an interdisciplinary and interspecies approach that involves scientists (as knowledge holders), citizens (as end users and co-creators of the public space), artists and creatives (as those who can look at the current challenges from a unique perspective and engage the public through symbolic and performative work). Our approach challenges the binary thinking that has historically divided nature and culture (as well as humans and non-humans) and engages instead with a tidal logic that nurtures currents of influence between disciplines and species. Taking water as both a subject and a praxis, TIDAL ArtS engages with the cyclical movement of water as a co-design methodology, with several rounds of contact with local citizens, scientists, and cultures in each phase, progressively widening the waves of influence of the project.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-01

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Coordinator

SUBMARINER NETWORK FOR BLUE GROWTH EWIV
Net EU contribution
€ 901 250,00
Address
VOLTASTRASSE 5 GEBAUDE 10 AUFGANG 3
13355 BERLIN
Germany
Region
Berlin Berlin Berlin
Activity type
Other
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Total cost
€ 901 250,00

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