Art and science are not opposites. Both spring from the same human instinct: curiosity, play, and exploration.

We live in a world of intensifying complexity. The old divides between disciplines—art versus science, intuition versus analysis—are outdated myths. Today, they limit rather than liberate our ability to make sense of a tangled, interdependent world, and they leave us poorly equipped to imagine creative responses to wicked problems.

Both art and science spring from the same human instinct: curiosity, play, and exploration. When they converge through transdisciplinary collaboration, something more than the sum of their parts emerges—new questions, new methods, new visions.

This workshop is an introduction to artscience as a practice and methodology. You’ll discover how artists and scientists can work together not only by combining skills, but by creating shared spaces of inquiry where surprise, emergence, and co-creation thrive. Building on frameworks from transdisciplinary and artistic practice, we will explore methods and techniques that help collaboration come alive beyond the silos of traditional disciplines.

Through examples, exercises, and experiments, we’ll look at how to build common ground, how to navigate differences in language and method, and how to cultivate an ecology of collaboration that is playful, adaptive, and generative. The goal is to create new forms of research and creation that neither art nor science could achieve alone.

What you’ll learn:

• Understand artscience as a transdisciplinary field that combines methods of art, science, philosophy, and other knowledge practices.

• Explore collaboration techniques that foster emergence, dialogue, and creativity across disciplinary boundaries.

• Learn methodologies inspired by complex adaptive systems: feedback, self-organisation, and play.

• Develop practical tools for creating shared frameworks in collaborative projects.

• Experience embodied and practice-led methods for research and experimentation.

Who it is for?

This workshop is for artists, scientists, researchers, academics, policy makers, organisations or anyone curious about crossing disciplinary boundaries.

Duration:

From a 3-hour primer, to a 2-day intensive workshop, to a multi-day course.

Language options:

English

Format:

In Person / Online