Interaction Seeds

Interaction Seeds integrates art & design with science & innovation by exploring their mutual challenges and connections. These four domains are united by the fact that they address similar contemporary challenges, but each has its own unique approaches and aims of its practices.

The interaction seeds project explores how these domains can collaborate but also discusses the challenges and risks of integrating them in the same process. Art & design, specifically, can challenge standard assumptions of how to do science and innovation, while scientific knowledge and innovations can also drive artistic and designerly practices forward.

The project gathers inspiring and replicable examples of the merger of art & design with science & innovation from all over Europe in a repository made freely available online. 20 adapted "seeds" from this repository will be implemented in 5 different local ecosystems located in France, Spain, Greece and Sweden.

RISE will implement 5 seeds in Sweden that address the following domains:

• Cleaning up our digital waste
• Exploring challenges of cultural institutions in urban spaces
• Co-creating future soundscapes in cities
• The design of sufficiency
• Systems contributing to elderly well-being