As a beautiful and illustrative example of how art and science collaborations can positively impact policymaking, two of the artworks currently on show at the NaturArchy exhibition in Brussels - by JRC SciArt in partnership with iMAL - will be showcased at the EU Green Week 2024 in the Charlemagne building, Brussels.
Tying in with the Green Week's topic #WaterWIseEU, a campaign to stimulate an EU-wide conversation around water today and in the future, the artworks being featured present water and aim to give it standing using different mediums, methodologies and research.
More about the EU Green Week and agenda: https://green-week.event.europa.eu/index_en
Artworks being showcased:
Ocean Connections
By artist Kristin Bergaust with researchers Guillermo Garcia-Sanchez and Evangelos Voukouvalas, Ocean Connections aims for an immersive, circular experience of biodiversity and ecological connections on a global scale. Through aesthetic renderings of scientific material, the artwork investigates processes within ecosystems which are influenced by ocean flows, revealing what is usually not cared for or valued on our planet.
Specter[al]s of Nature
Informed by scientific earth observation research on surface water changes, Specter[al]s of Nature gives light to unseen movements of waterbodies through time. By architect Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl with designer Elahe Rajabiani and researcher Alan Belward, the resulting 3D sculptures of four waterbodies and projections of water-maps illustrate how human activities have irreversibly altered ecosystems through in order to bring us closer to nature and prevent environmentally damaging actions.
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