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From commission to mission-oriented research: How can artistic research contribute to mission-oriented research projects that address societal challenges? 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. The project will research privileges and particularities of artistic research and explore if and how it can enable results for cross-disciplinary research projects that might otherwise not be possible.
The goal of this project is to develop an open artistic research framework that accommodates a multiplicity of advanced practices for artistic researchers who aim at contributing to mission-oriented research. It raises the question what a shift from excellence to societal impact would mean in the context of art. It will look at the potential to experiment with alternative forms of assessing impact, legitimizing knowledge, and production of value.
The project takes a practical, tactical, and collective approach to research and is embedded in a wave of recent initiatives and networks with the aim to change current frameworks for research and build new alternatives, such as:
PACESETTERS is a Horizon Europe research project starting in 2024. It responds to the abstract challenge of the climate transition by shifting from a model of entrepreneurship based on individual acting to one that is driven by co-agency, fostering and supporting new sustainable business models in the CCIs to not just adapt to but drive the green transition.
CYANOTYPES is a Blueprint Skills Alliance under ERASMUS+ which addresses the skills requirements of the Cultural & Creative Industries across sectors and countries.
I am engaged in Task2.2: Urgent Skills Needs, which will map and develop an overview of urgent skills needs of artists and creatives to face the challenges of the COVID pandemic recovery, and the digital and green transition. https://cyanotypes.website/
COST Action European Forum for Advanced Practices (covering 37 countries) establishes a dialogue across emergent forms of artistic- and practice-based research –currently with a specific focus on KIC CCSI and NEB.
I have been the Grant holder manager and working group member during the duration of the project (2019 -2023). https://advancedpractices.net/
Co-Agency: Artistic Research as Transformative Practice is a new Special Interest Group in the Society for Artistic Research. The aim of the group is to bring together young and emerging researchers in artistic research who want to explore how artistic research can contribute to coordinated and collaborative efforts to address societal challenges. https://sar2023.no/node/182
Impact Attribution LAB aims to collect and share low-threshold access to information, skills, networks, and actors who are engaged in the implementation of the European Green Deal while covering various aspects and perspectives of the climate and biological diversity crisis. https://rogalandkunstsenter.no/2022/10/26/impact-attribution-lab-roundtable-sessionstavanger