Residency Programme
19 - 26 FEB 2019
Bariloche/Buenos Aires, Argentina
H2O (Human Horizons in Observation) is an international residency and summit programme that took place in Bariloche and Buenos Aires and that brought together scientists, artists, thinkers and cultural managers from Argentina, United Kingdom, Portugal, Switzerland and Latin America to frame, discuss and empower the field of cooperation, programs and projects that unite the arts and sciences, with the aim to outline a network of ideas and collaborations between individuals and institutions around the world.
H2O is organized by the British Council, the Art and Science Research Center of the National University of San Martín, the Secretary of Culture of Argentina, the San Martín Cultural Center and the INVAP Foundation. Its central objective is to delineate a network of ideas and collaborations between individuals and institutions around the world.
H2O's proposal is to create a fertile ecosystem to promote discussions in the transdisciplinary field of art-science, bringing together thinkers, scientists and artists with the potential to get involved in shared projects to detect global problems, outline research and production agendas and contribute with possible solutions.
An observer committee was formed, composed of the journalist specialized in science Nora Bär, the communication consultant specialized in science, technology and cultural industries Alina Membibre and the Cambridge professor Jorge Viñuales, in order to determine and evaluate to what extent the proposed objectives.
The themes of this first meeting were:
- The field of art-science: state of the art;
- Art-science and education;
- Distinction between art, science and technology;
- Art-science, childhood and inclusion;
- Ethics in the field of art-science;
- Art-science and public policies;
- Anthropocene;
- Art-science, strategy models and curatorship.
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