This is the title of the essay just published in Nature, one of the world’s leading scientific journals, authored by Caterina Benincasa and Adriaan Eeckels.
The piece highlights the SciArt Project of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) as an example of how collaborations between scientists, artists and policymakers can inform more inclusive and human-centred policymaking.
It describes the project’s transdisciplinary approach, structured around thematic cycles such as NaturArchy, and highlights several initiatives, including Specter[al]s of Nature, Lament, Synocene, and Haunted Waters, that connect scientific research with artistic practice to inform policy discussions on issues such as water management, wildfire resilience and nature conservation. You'll find plenty more art-science-policy projects to draw inspiration from here: NaturArchy Projects | SciArt: Science art society
As the world grapples with difficult challenges, including how to manage water and the environment, help people to lead healthy lives, cope with climate change and develop technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), fresh policy thinking is urgently needed. For the past ten years, the European Union has been trialling an unusual approach to gaining diverse perspectives by bringing together scientists, artists, policymakers and the public through a series of transdisciplinary projects.
Read the full essay in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02351-x
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