Cutting Edges

Exploring sustainability through S+T+ARTS

Ai Weiwei German Pavillion Venice Biennale 2013 ©Marleen Wynants

Cutting edges. Exploring sustainability through S+T+ARTS

Date:

26 Sep 2019 - 16:00

Place:

BOZAR - Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussel

Language:

English

A one-day hackathon for a more sustainable Brussels.

Let’s imagine a more sustainable functioning of the city. What does it mean to be a citizen in that context? What would you call real progress from your personal and professional perspective? The good news is that there is no need to start from scratch. But what tools, systems or ideas could initiate, support or give a boost to the required actions.

This event presents a novel platform for participation between the city and its regions through mixed encounters of researchers, grant providers, companies, SME’s, non-profit, spinoffs and startups, architects, designers, artists, policymakers etc.

PROGRAM

16:00: Introduction by Marleen Wynants (VUB-Crosstalks)
16:10: Presentation by Ralph Dum (S+T+ARTS, DG Connect, European Commission): A new perspective on Innovation at the nexus of Science Technology ART
16:20: Invited talk by Anna Valtonen (Vice President of Art and Creative Practices, Aalto University, FI)
17:00: Breakout session in three groups: Smart cities and digital pollution; Clean air; Sustainable water management
18:30: Presentation moment of the selected ideas
19:00: Drinks and walking dinner

Co-funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme in the framework of STARTS initiative (Science, Technology & the Arts). STARTS supports collaborations between artists, scientists, engineers and researchers to develop more creative, inclusive, and sustainable technologies.

Smart cities and digital pollution

Pieter Ballon (VUB – BE)

Luc Deleu (Architect/Urbanist – BE)

Marie Albert (French Tech Grande Provence – FR)

Judith Veenkamp (Waag Society – NL)

Sotiris Diplaris (MindSpaces – GR)

José Moura (NOVA – PT)

Rob van Kranenburg (IoT – BE/NL)

Jacques Vermeulen (Nokia – BE)

Joana Moll (Critical Interface Politics - ES/GE)

Rita De Graeve (Dept. Cultuur, Jeugd en Media – BE)

Catho Van Den Bosch (student UA – BE)

Ezra Belgrado (Visual Harvester – BE)

Marleen Wynants (VUB-Crosstalks – BE)

Clean air quality

Ling Tan (Pollution Explorers/Hackair – UK)

Guillaume Slizewicz (Urban Species/LUCA School of Arts – BE)

Annekatrien Verdickt (FilterCaféFiltré – BE)

Natalia Lastovets (Aalto University – FI)

Celien Van Gorp (ZULU project clean air – BE)

Raf Verbruggen (Stad Antwerpen – BE)

Tim Cassiers (Bral -BE)

Stijn Vranckx (VITO, BE)

Tarek Barakat (Université de Namur (DepollutAir), BE)

Pieter Fannes (1030/0)

Nicola da Schio (VUB – BE)

Stef Vonk (innovative partner projects, department Culture, Youth and Media of the Flemish government – BE)

Ine De Bock (VUB-Crosstalks)

Sustainable water management

Boud Verbeiren (VUB – BE)

Ive Van Bostraeten (vzw La Polyclinique de la Culture – BE)

Ivan Henriques (Artist – NL)

Mihkel Kangur (Tallinn University – EE)

Maarten Sper (VLM – BE)

Fermin Serrano Sanz (Government of Aragon – ES)

Luuk Boelens (Interreg: ESPON European Spatial Planning Observation Network – BE)

Joeri De Bruyn (Public Space)

Rosanna Dinuzzo (MEET Digital Culture Center, Powered by Cariplo Fondazione – IT)

Valentino Catricalà (Maker Faire - The European Edition – IT)

Lotte Luykx (Visual Harvester – BE)

Goedele Nuyttens (VUB-Crosstalks – BE)

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