In this project I propose to investigate how the framework program for research and innovation of the European Commission Horizon Europe, with initiatives such as the European New Green Deal, mission-oriented research, and the New European Bauhaus, can challenge and change the conditions for cross-disciplinary research in Europe in ways which include also artistic forms of knowledge production. Emphasised as a shift from a focus on academic excellence to societal impact, it could open up new potential roles for artistic research in the new frame of mission-oriented research.
Mari Sanden is a PhD candidate at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where she is exploring how new initiatives under the framework programme Horizon Europe can challenge and change the conditions for cross-disciplinary research in ways that include artistic forms of knowledge production. The project is embedded in networks and projects such as CYANOTYPES a blueprint skills alliance for the CCI, the Impact Attribution LAB, the COST Action European Forum for Advanced Practices, and the Strategic Topic Group Just Innovation in the EIT Culture & Creativity. She is part of the coordination team of the newly started research project PACESETTERS.
Artistic Research Spring Forum 2024
3rd presentation
I would like to use this opportunity to present some ideas on a possible aesthetics of impact; or the possibilities of artistic and creative contributions or interventions in what could be called impact regimes. Impact regimes could be understood as a culture that emerges from the governance mechanisms for evaluating the success or failure of a large scale project, program or transformation process. Impact as a concept and impact assessment as a tool have a crucial influence on the decision making processes. In times when everything has to change, do we also have to rethink what, how, and for whom, we evaluate the success or failure of change?