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Education Conference: Art-led participatory platform for transdisciplinary open research
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This project is building an open, shareable platform that lets artists, scientists, and everyday people team up to explore how long microplastics stick around in our environment. It matters because understanding microplastic persistence is a key step toward eventually understanding its risks to human health, and this tool aims to make that research more accessible and collaborative.
Open science has received a lot of attention over the last decade. But what about open artistic research? From a starting point of collaboration between people of diverse backgrounds, the STUDIOTOPIA Palaeoplasticene project hosted by Studio Austen is developing a platform to facilitate transdisciplinary artistic research by non-artists into the long-term existence of microplastic. Designed to be adaptable to multiple artistic research contexts and to be re-deployable by other researchers, this platform development highlights the unique challenges, and rigour, of artistic research. During the launch of the platform, artist Kat Austen, scientists Indrė Žliobaite and Laurence Gill will join Ars Electronica's Andrew Newman to discuss transdisciplinary collaboration and open research. Web development is undertaken by Andreas Baudisch.
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