Tides of Creativity: Bringing the Power of Arts & Culture to Mission Ocean
This session will explore how art and culture are brought to the Mission Ocean by two visionary projects: TIDAL ArtS and PartArt4OW. While art has long been viewed as a means for communications and dissemination, these two projects are redefining that paradigm to realise the interdisciplinary power that citizen-research-art synergies can have. By exploring our aquatic ecosystems in new ways, new forms of inspiration and oneness with the natural world can be generated. Both projects will share opportunities for artists to receive funding to complete Mission Ocean projects and for other interested parties to get involved!
The event will be moderated by MaREI’s Baiba Prūse. Baiba is an interdisciplinary researcher from Latvia with a focus on local ecological knowledge (ethnobiology) and citizen science. She hold a B.Sc. from Business Academy Aarhus (Denmark) in Environmental management field, M.Sc. from Uppsala University (Sweden) in Sustainable Development and completed her PhD on knowledge co-creation at University of Latvia. She is strongly supporting the research strategy of inter / transdisciplinarity and collaborative work between artists. She is eager to learn more on how to move from research recommendations to direct implementation and foresee – art and science combination as the perfect starting point. In October 2024, Baiba joined UCC MaREI team where with the colleagues she explores citizen engagement across Mission Ocean activities.
