The call for the S+T+ARTS in the City Residencies is closed. The consortium would like to thank all participants! For all 11 challenges we received 166 applications. Applicants come from 46 nationalities and 35 countries. Gender division is 81 males, 61 females, 11 prefer no to say, 4 other. 40 applications 20 applications 10 applications …
The call for the S+T+ARTS in the City residencies is now closed Read More »
To help artists get a better understanding of the open call, the S+T+ARTS in the City consortium organized two live-streamed webinars. During the first webinar, the open call, the 11 challenges, the expectations from the artists were presented. The second webinar covered the practical information (such as the specification of each challenge, what is offered, …
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+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement Barcelona’s historically privileged geographical position is quickly turning into a challenging one: pollution, rising temperatures, and the threat of sea level rise, to name a few, are pressing problems, and to look away is no longer an option. How can digital artistic practices and narratives be part of the …
+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement As a result of the aging population in Catalonia, the dependency ratio of the elderly will go from 28.9 in 2021 to 44.3 in 2040, and to 51.2 in 2070. As technology advances, robots will soon become ubiquitous in human environments. Their role will be particularly important for elderly …
S+T+ARTS in the City | Challenge nº10 | Designing the Robots of the Future Read More »
+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement How does photosynthesis function at the molecular scale, and can we improve it? Unveiling the processes governing nanoscale energy transfer could advance sustainable agriculture, green energy, and carbon capture. We invite artists to support the scientific challenge of making plants even stronger allies in the fight of big cities …
+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement How might we contribute to a more sustainable agriculture through digital transformation and a greater collaboration between smallholder farmers? + Keywords Agriculture, Sustainability, IoT Technology, AI, Efficiency, Collaboration, Farmers + Description Applicants are invited to collaborate with researchers of the Lusíada University (UL-VNF), localized in the municipality Vila Nova …
+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement The growth of the bits -generated by our global information technology requires an increasing amount of energy for its processing and storage. In response artists and scientists are exploring the knowledge about organically stored information, looking into solutions that already exist in biology, ranging from molecules to cells, to …
S+T+ARTS in the City | Challenge nº7 | The Future of Computing Read More »
+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships among the three different intelligences -human, artificial and natural- fostering collaborative symbiosis, allowing a “regenerative” AI to activate urban mining processes of materials and knowledge from the city environment? + Keywords Critical Minerals, Regenerative AI, Symbiocene, Mining, Circularity, Material Research, “Advancing” …
S+T+ARTS in the City | Challenge nº6 | Regenerative AI for Urban Mining Read More »
+ Consortium Partner + Problem Statement How can we enhance the oracular power of AI to reveal the needs and the desires of the city and translate them into possible heuristic governance solutions that can improve its well-being and resilience? + Keywords Technomagic, Invisible cities, Intelligences interface, Heuristic governance, Koinocene + Description This residency challenges …
S+T+ARTS in the City | Challenge nº5 | Machine Sapiens and the City Read More »
