Renewable Futures
new conference series and european platform for art, science and technoecologies
UPCOMING EVENT
RF2018: Hybrid Labs Symposium
May 30 – June 1, 2018
LOCATION
Espoo/Helsinki, Finland
Aalto University Campus
Call for papers, artist presentations, and posters: abstract submission deadline – March 5, 2018
Apply Nownew art & science conference series
inventing new avenues for developments of tomorrow
The changing role of art in society is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. The Renewable Futures aims to shape new contact zones between traditionally separated domains, and bringing together art and science, culture and digital technologies, sustainable businesses and social engagement of the 21st century.
Mission
Manifesting the transformative potential of art in the age of post-media – by challenging existing viewpoints, deconstructing social issues, and proposing positive visions for the future
Cooperation
By expanding our previous Nordic Baltic cooperation networks we are building new European platform for artists and scientists who are engaged in techno-ecological research
Knowledge transfer
Facilitating new knowledge production through art and science collaboration, and transforming the cutting edge ideas into sustainable social realities and techno-ecological practices
Conferences
By bringing together new ways of thinking, scientific knowledge, aesthetics, technologies and social practices, the conferences aim to develop new models for a more sustainable and imaginative way of life
Exhibitions
Showcasing most innovative art practices that are transdisciplinary and transformative, and combine the artistic with the social and the natural, the scientific and the emotional, the sensible with the actual
WorkLabs
Organising art & science symposiums, urban & rural workshops, participatory research and public education projects, our network aims at increasing the participation level, inclusion and social impact
Conferences and Worklabs
Renewable Futures
conference series,
The RF network was founded in 2009 by artists and scientists from Baltic Nordic countries seeking solutions to sustainable development. FIELDS, a large scale international art exhibition in Riga – Cultural Capital of Europe 2014 showed the results of this collaboration. With the support of Creative Europe, the RF initiative was transformed into a new conference series. The first conference took place in Riga (2015), and the second – in Eindhoven (2017). The third conference will take place in May 30–June 1, 2018 in Espoo. With the title HYBRID LABS SYMPOSIUM it aims at connecting university science labs with artist spaces.
Event programme
Events are organised by partners and taking place in different countries of Europe - Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, France, Spain full project programme here
FEEDBACK
Publicity
Renewable Future project was widely promoted in local and international media. Press releases were sent and individually communication with journalists resulted in the multiple reports and broadcasts in national TV and radio. (LTV 1, LR1, NABA).
In addition these media art and culture webpages and most popular internet news portals wrote about project Art&Science activities. Publicity also provided our long-time partners and exhibition Data Drift reviews was able to read in artforum. Read more >
Support
CO-FUNDED BY THE CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. INTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? CONTACT US
Locations
Conference Locations
RIXC Center for New Media Culture (Latvia)
Lenču iela 2, Rīga, LV-1010, Latvia
Baltan Laboratories (The Netherlands)
info@baltanlaboratories.org
baltanlaboratories.org
Postbus 4042, 5604 EA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (Norway)
post@hioa.no
http://www.hioa.no
PO box 4 St. Olavs plass, NO-0130 Oslo
Media Lab of Aalto University (Finland)
mlab-arts@aalto.fi
medialab.aalto.fi
P.O.Box 16500, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland