ART FOR SCIENCE: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF ART FOR RESEARCH
To question the place of artistic and creative methods in the conduct of action research, particularly when they concern agriculture and sustainable food, allows us to enrich our approaches to the environment and, more broadly, the links between nature and society, but also to decouple the disciplinary and social fields.
It is about exploring how art, by releasing emotions, by modifying perceptions of bodies or objects, time and space, allows scientists to integrate new elements to observe and understand the world. Art is also a means of civic expression on all fields and in particular on issues that affect scientists and on major issues in our society. Art is therefore also a relevant medium for co-producing new knowledge, if scientists and artists cooperate.
By facilitating new alliances between science and society and allowing us to question and observe our relations with nature in a different way, art for science is therefore a path of innovation, conceptual, sensitive, social, and a relevant media to transform forms of production and dissemination of knowledge.
Artistic forms of expression, in their diversity, offer the possibility of integrating into the messages and knowledge they convey, in addition to aesthetic and sensitive dimensions, the values of care, reciprocity, well-being, etc. They are new opportunities to explore the ways in which social actors engage in their relationships with living things, with food, at the scale of their living territories. The various forms of artistic expression are also means to initiate experimental approaches for unconventional research, and to promote other relationships between nature, science and society.
Cross-pollinating experiences in art-based methods for science
The Art for Science event is inspired by the desire to collect and share artistic and creative methodologies for research, the experiences of the practitioners who mobilize them and the results of work involving researchers, artists and civil society.
In addition, the objective is to take a critical look at the possibilities of analysing the processes of co-creation of knowledge between art and science, but also to question how the experiential approach to research transforms the researcher's perspective.
Dialogue will be encouraged at the MSH SUD (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme) in Montpellier and in the streets of the city through various classical or less conventional interactions, such as plenary sessions, training sessions, artistic exhibitions, creative workshops... The challenge is both to propose new tools at the service of science and to encourage cooperation between art and science to co-produce new knowledge and take a different look at nature, agriculture and the food of tomorrow.
To learn more about the conference themes and how to contribute, visit the symposium themes and formats page
Organization
The event is funded by Montpellier University of Excellence (MUSE) as part of Connect, Call for Proposals "Student Initiatives".
The daily organization of the event is ensured by the Non Conference project: the Non-Conference is a social entrepreneurship project designed to create participatory scientific and citizen events, in order to highlight and exchange around research topics by giving value to the voice of everyone. Created in 2017, the association now has experience in organising 6 events at the request of research institutions and citizen organisations. By proposing tailor-made participatory methodologies, the approach of its facilitators makes it possible to catalyze and capitalize on exchanges between stakeholders in an innovative way.
For any information about the event, you can send us an email at artforscience@sciencesconf.org.
Scientific Committee
Dr. François Bousquet, UR GREEN, International Agricultural Research Center for Development (CIRAD), Montpellier.
Dr. Frédérique Jankowski, UR GREEN, International Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), Montpellier.
Dr. Pascale Moity-Maizi, Montpellier SUPAGRO, UMR GRED (IRD/Paul-Valéry University)
Organizing Committee
Alexandre Guichardaz, Agricultural Engineer, Co-Chairman of the Non-Conference, Montpellier
Myriam Perez Dumoulin, Agricultural Engineer, Independent Expert, Montpellier
Juliette Mariel, Agricultural Engineer, PhD candidate CIRAD/SupAgro, Montpellier
Federico Andreotti, Msc. agronomy, doctoral student CIRAD/WUR, Wageningen, Netherlands.
