{"id":1133,"date":"2024-11-04T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=programme&#038;p=1133"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:45:15","slug":"vr-symposium","status":"publish","type":"programme","link":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/programme-item\/vr-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes &amp; Scaffolding: Symposium on Artistic Research 2024\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for participating in our symposium. We greatly appreciate your time, engagement, and contributions, which made the event a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/eventfilm-hurricanes-and-scaffolding-2024-umarts.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year the Swedish Research Council Symposium on Artistic Research explores the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Symposium is organized by UmArts Research Center and will take place on the Arts Campus, in partnership with Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts, Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design, Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture, Department of creative studies,&nbsp;and Bildmuseet . There will also be events taking place across the city.&nbsp;&nbsp;Within the lively debate of artistic research, the symposia will identify critically reflexive frameworks that the arts bring to the wider discourses of society and politics, starting with the concept of hurricanes and scaffolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full program can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/en\/umarts\/about-the-conference\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/en\/umarts\/about-the-conference\/\">Symposium webpage.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Welcome address, keynotes and plenary session will be live streamed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.umu.se\/live<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Theme<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concepts of&nbsp;hurricanes and scaffolding&nbsp;will be used to identify new critically reflexive frameworks that the arts bring to the wider discourses of society, technology and politics.&nbsp;The hurricane being a non-human force, and scaffolding being the built infrastructure on which systems can grow. Nora N.Khan outlines her concepts of hurricanes and scaffolding in her essay &#8216;Towards a poetics of Artificial Super Intelligence&#8217; (In: &#8216;The Atlas of Anomalous AI&#8217; edited by Ben Vickers and K Allado-McDowell).&nbsp;&nbsp;The symposium presentations will explore human and non-human perspectives on infrastructures for new ways of thinking and making.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whilst artistic academies and conservatoires have supported the development of the arts for many centuries, Artistic Research is a relatively new field of practice in relation to University research infrastructures. On the one hand disciplines want to protect their traditions, whilst on the other hand practices that engage with an interdisciplinary critique enable a clearer understanding of the contribution of the arts to society. This symposia will bring together artists, architects and designers who are moving beyond individual practices that rely on the art market or state sponsorship to engage with societal infrastructures and responsibilities through research. At the same time Universities in Sweden are slowly changing the way in which they validate artistic research supported by new initiatives such as CoARA which require subject specific assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0792-241205-MPN-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mattias Pettersson\" class=\"wp-image-1492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0792-241205-MPN-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0792-241205-MPN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0792-241205-MPN-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0792-241205-MPN-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0792-241205-MPN-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Practical Info<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The symposium will be held mainly in English and in Scandinavian languages. Participation in the symposium is free of charge. For climate reasons we recommend traveling by train, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sj.se\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sj.se\">SJ.se<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0617-241204-MPN-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mattias Pettersson\" class=\"wp-image-1498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0617-241204-MPN-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0617-241204-MPN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0617-241204-MPN-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0617-241204-MPN-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/UMARTS-0617-241204-MPN-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supporters&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Symposium is financially supported by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vr.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swedish Research Council<\/a>, UmArts Research Centre, Ume\u00e5 University, Ume\u00e5 Kommun, Ume\u00e5 Transformation Research Initiative (UTRI), The Communications Office, Ume\u00e5 University. In&nbsp;partnership with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/arkitekthogskolan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/designhogskolan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design<\/a>,&nbsp;Ume\u00e5 Academy of Fine Arts, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/institutionen-for-estetiska-amnen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Creative Studies in Education<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bildmuseet.umu.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bildmuseet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/folketsbioumea.se\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/folketsbioumea.se\">Folkets Bio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Swedish Research Council Symposium on Artistic Research explores the dynamic interplay between more-than-human forces and culturally resilient structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1493,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"template":"","categories":[5],"tags":[172,178,2,183,167,28,36],"people":[],"class_list":["post-1133","programme","type-programme","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-symposia","tag-arts-and-ai","tag-curatorial-research","tag-decolonisation","tag-displacement-hospitality","tag-geopolitics-of-the-forest","tag-planetary-care","tag-the-commons"],"acf":{"is_viewable_online":false,"is_playback_available":false,"programme_date_times":"4-6 December 2024","programme_location":"Arts Campus, Ume\u00e5 University","label_for_repeating_events":"Gatherings","repeating_events":false,"related_svp":"","related_wg":[{"ID":343,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2024-02-09 13:54:45","post_date_gmt":"2024-02-09 12:54:45","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>UmArts is leading research in Art, Architecture, Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Ume\u00e5 University in partnership with the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program \u2013 Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) and Ume\u00e5 University\u2019s Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA). In 2023, curator Sarah Cook joined UmArts as the WASP-HS Guest Professor in Art and AI in partnership with Bildmuseet, Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture (UMA), and Ume\u00e5 Institute of Design (UID).<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Art and AI working is a group is chaired by Guest Professor Sarah Cook, and includes UmArts postdocs, mentors and artists in residence who are working with AI to share their research and develop new collaborative projects. The group considers how arts research can contribute to the social and ethical discourses of AI and machine learning, working in partnership with museums and galleries, artists and curators. The programme critically interrogates the aesthetics and politics of AI, collaborating with, and challenging the algorithmic logic underpinning hardware and software development.&nbsp;We are interested in how creative encounters can allow publics to experience and engage with the ethical considerations and societal shifts that widespread use of AI will bring and feeding that back into AI development.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Octopus Club <\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Octopus Club is open to all. It is a book club to close-read texts, artworks and films which investigate distributed intelligence and networked knowledge. Please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umu.se\/en\/staff\/emelie-el-habta\/\">Emelie El-Habta<\/a> UmArts Research Co-ordinator you would like to join. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The next text is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2023%2Fsep%2F14%2Fthe-maniac-by-benjamin-labatut-review-a-journey-to-the-far-edge-of-knowledge&amp;data=05%7C02%7Celeanor.carpenter%40umu.se%7C0d1205083c4847327a1608dc26229804%7C5a4ba6f9f5314f329467398f19e69de4%7C0%7C0%7C638427177211083871%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CpkDzZcbTyuJ0ecg%2Bc67x6bz1mqCREwFDM4B%2FA77ENI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">\u2018The Maniac\u2019&nbsp; by&nbsp;Benjam\u00edn Labatut<\/a>&nbsp;about the life of John von Neumann nominated by Dimitri. This is contrasted with \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crystalbennes.com%2Fportfolio%2Fklara-and-the-bomb%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Celeanor.carpenter%40umu.se%7C0d1205083c4847327a1608dc26229804%7C5a4ba6f9f5314f329467398f19e69de4%7C0%7C0%7C638427177211089757%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=S9tj25z%2BZZLvxUIbwIVXQ47vwnPIO72gO4ZHw3D5gwo%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Klara and the Bomb\u2019 by artist Crystal Bennes,<\/a> about Klara von Neumann who was married to John, nominated by Ele. This comparison will provide an interesting insight into the history of computing and AI from biographical and feminist artistic perspectives. We will have a short discussion about the books with tea and biscuits after the working group meeting and find a date for a full discussion in March\/April. (Some of us are also reading Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s \u2018Klara and the Sun\u2019 for the full trio of titles!) next meeting to be confirmed for March.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Art & Artificial Intelligence","post_excerpt":"UmArts is leading research in Art, Architecture, Design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Ume\u00e5 University in partnership with the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program \u2013 Humanities and Society (WASP-HS) and Ume\u00e5 University\u2019s Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA).","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"art-and-ai","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-07 15:45:04","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-07 13:45:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=programme&#038;p=343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"working_group","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":221,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2024-02-14 16:26:09","post_date_gmt":"2024-02-14 15:26:09","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The UmArts Displacement and Hospitality working group brings together researchers from different disciplines exploring&nbsp;the relationships between host and guest in relation to&nbsp;migration and displacement in the north of Sweden.&nbsp; Several researchers across UmArts are investigating the urgent relations of hospitality and care involved in moving between countries and cities, from the physical process of moving a house, to rethinking Swedish Building standards, and the challenges of addressing issues of migration and the right to work. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2022 the \u2018Moving North\u2019 project was awarded a New European Bauhaus \/ ArkDes Vision I Norr fund for developing proposals&nbsp;to&nbsp;increase social integration in the city by exploring forms of reciprocity between migrants, refugees and host communities.&nbsp; Moving North was a cross-sectoral team consisting of an artist, a curator, architects, a cultural geographer, architecture students and the organization Hej Framling. Based on a strong foothold in northern Sweden and with experience of both collaboration and participant-based methods in places with increased migration and relocation, Moving North critically explored&nbsp;how different placemaking processes can promote&nbsp;social&nbsp;participation and social&nbsp;sustainability. Their findings are recorded in the short film 'Folketstad: A city of many parts' 17:40 which address the challenges of restrictive migration and labour laws on people's well-being at a time when the North is rapidly expanding and recruiting a new workforce. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Moving North group presented their research at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vr.se\/english\/just-now\/events\/event-archive\/2022-04-06-symposium-on-artistic-research-in-a-time-of-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transformations 22 Conference<\/a> 'Artistic Research in a Time of Change' at Vetenskapens hus, Lule\u00e5 University of Technology, 17-18 November 2022; and at the European Conference in Ume\u00e5, February 2023.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Displacement and Hospitality","post_excerpt":"The UmArts Displacement working group meets regularly to bring together researchers from different disciplines exploring\u00a0the relationships between host and guest in relation to\u00a0migration and displacement in the north of Sweden.\u00a0","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"displacement","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-11-18 13:28:00","post_modified_gmt":"2024-11-18 12:28:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=programme&#038;p=221","menu_order":0,"post_type":"working_group","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":88,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2024-02-19 14:35:05","post_date_gmt":"2024-02-19 13:35:05","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Geopolitics of the Forest working group meets regularly to share their research on the geopolitics of the forest across art, architecture, political science and landscape ecology. The group are exploring how to develop holistic and interdisciplinary understandings of the human \/ forest relationship that can represent multiple, overlapping and conflicting interests. They aim to develop a shared critical space for new collaborative artistic research projects which deal with the ethical complexities of forestry in relation to the climate crisis, to reconsider the language and aesthetics of sustainability.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The meetings investigate multidisciplinary approaches to the human and nonhuman entanglements of the forest in Northern Sweden. Research questions investigate the ethical aesthetics of different kinds of woodlands and their material and geopolitical networks.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Geopolitics of the Forest Working Group is chaired by Luis Berrios-Negron, UmArts Research Fellow in Art and Architecture. Members include: Gerd Aurell, artist; James B. Brown, architect; Sofia Johansson, curator; Toms Kokins, architect; Lars \u00d6stlund, forest historian; Edith Marie Pasquier, artist; Janina Priebe, political science; Moa Sandstr\u00f6m, S\u00e1mi studies; Per Sandstr\u00f6m, landscape ecologist, and many others who come to share their research, practices and ideas.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Geopolitics of  the Forest","post_excerpt":"The Forest working group meets regularly to share their research on the geopolitics of the forest across art, architecture, political science and landscape ecology. The group are exploring how to develop holistic and interdisciplinary understandings of the human \/ forest relationship that can represent multiple, overlapping and conflicting interests. ","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"geopolitics-of-the-forest","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-06-10 09:59:42","post_modified_gmt":"2024-06-10 07:59:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=programme&#038;p=88","menu_order":0,"post_type":"working_group","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":191,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-08-03 09:07:00","post_date_gmt":"2021-08-03 07:07:00","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Curatorial Research group meets regularly to discuss curating contemporary art as research process and as a form of knowledge production. This new partnership with Bildmuseet is chaired by curator Anca Rujoiu who is currently undertaking doctoral research in the Curatorial Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.\u00a0The group brings together curators and curatorial researchers focusing on critical frameworks for curatorial practice, new curatorial methodologies, and situating curatorial knowledge in the international field.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","post_title":"Curatorial Research Group","post_excerpt":"The Curatorial Research Group will start in 2023 to discuss curating contemporary art as research process and as a form of knowledge production.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"curatorial-research-group","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-07-14 12:04:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-07-14 10:04:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=programme&#038;p=191","menu_order":0,"post_type":"working_group","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":913,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2024-04-24 18:21:49","post_date_gmt":"2024-04-24 16:21:49","post_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Nuclear Culture Research Group was established by Ele Carpenter in 2011. It is a network of artists, curators, and academics in the nuclear arts, humanities and sciences, as well as nuclear professionals, who share their work and opportunities around nuclear culture to develop new research partnerships. In this context the term \u2018nuclear culture\u2019 describes cultural activity investigating conceptual frameworks of the aesthetics of radiation and nuclear decoloniality though the visual, performing and media arts. The term \u2018nuclear\u2019 is used to describe the whole techno-scientific cycle from uranium mining, the military industrial complex, energy and the planned final geologic repositories. Group members have been involved in exhibitions, field research, publications and roundtable discussions investigating nuclear sites and artistic research questions.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nuclear Culture Research Group Email List<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The group has an jisc email list for sharing information, moderated by Gair Dunlop (DJCAD, University of Dundee) and Ele Carpenter (Ume\u00e5 University). The list includes 240 artists, scholars, culutral and nuclear professionals and aims to enhance research dialogues around curation, artistic production, collaboration with scientific colleagues and theory. If you would like to join \u2013 please sign up here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiscmail.ac.uk\/NUCLEAR-CULTURE-RESEARCH-GROUP\">www.jiscmail.ac.uk\/NUCLEAR-CULTURE-RESEARCH-GROUP<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">RJ Sabbatical<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>During 2024 Ele Carpenter is taking a Nuclear Culture Research Sabbatical supported by the RJ Sabbatical Fund to undertake field research in Italy and Australia. Her research will be focused on a new publication with the working title Planetary Nuclear Aesthetics.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In Italy Ele is visiting the Nuclear Decomissioning team at the JRC in Ispra, to find out about how the European Union was built on the Euratom research partnerships and Italy's nuclear research program. In Australia she will be visiting the Northern Research Centre at the University of Darwin, and visiting artists Alex Ressel and Kerri Meehan with artists in Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, Northern Territories of Australia.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vetenskapr\u00e5det Exploratory Workshop <\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>During 2024 and 2025 Ele Carpenter is working with a small group of expert arts researchers in nuclear culture to undertake exploratory workshops to Geologic Repositories for the storage of high level radioactive waste in Onkalo in Finland and Forsmark in Sweden, support by the Swedish Research Council. 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Previous example projects include combining traditional and cultural woodcraft with digital laser cutting, and more technical explorations from architectural perspectives on making with recycled and living materials. Another focus is on contemporary subcultures of contemporary makers in relation to traditional crafts, framed as modes of sustainable, post-industrial design practice. The working group also brings attention to <em>tinkering<\/em> as an investigative practice within the creative fields, ranging from hacking, coding, circuit-bending, and bricolage. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In a Nordic context sloyd traditions embody a specific form of cultural heritage encompassing particular materials and techniques. Research in this working group spans all creative disciplines and works together to publish research articles, conduct hands-on workshops, and exhibitions. 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