" smART cities and waste: Developing an arts-led interdisciplinary network for waste management and treatment innovation"
Lead Research Organisation:
Bangor University
Department Name: Sch of Social Sciences
Abstract
Research Context.
Waste is a significant problem facing a rapidly urbanising world, with challenges at every stage including waste prevention, treatment/management, recycling and reuse, and the health and ecosystem impacts of poorly managed waste. Rising to these challenges, particularly in relation to sustainable cities, is high on the policy agenda at local, national and international levels. For example a recent (2013) UK Government report on waste noted that: We need to develop further the concept of a circular economy, where one person's waste becomes another's valuable resource...Making the changes needed may require innovation and creative thinking...
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the Network is to develop a forum for knowledge exchange and debate across art & humanities and science disciplines and subject areas with a common focus on waste treatment, management and innovation. This will seek to develop responses to the question: how can arts based approaches inform waste management innovation techniques and processes; and secondly, (how) does place (local context, identity, culture, governance) make a difference to waste generation, waste innovation delivery and uptake?
This aim will be met through the following objectives:
i)To establish an interdisciplinary network of Europe-wide academics, artists, scientists, practitioners, stakeholders, and interested end-users. We will run four workshops in 4 European cities (London, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Bangor in Wales) to explore and develop ideas, issues and possible solutions and learn from each other, and also run a number of 'pop-up' events piloting arts-based approaches to public engagement and waste. A 'wiki style' open source website will provide network support.
ii) to identify particular sorts of waste (e.g. industrial/domestic, organic/manufactured, chemicals/metals, waste-energy, water) and to identify specific 'intervention points', which have good potential for creative interdisciplinary innovation.
Applications and Benefits
Bringing together different disciplines and different 'communities of place and practice' to address a common problem will have the primary benefit of structured knowledge exchange and capacity building across a number of divides (e.g. academic/practitioner, geographical, artists and scientists). The process of creating and participating in the network will therefore be its key outcome/benefit. The network will also make connections (through the pop up events and through the website) with 'the general public', enabling 'local and lay expertise' to inform the network.
We aim to identify, through an iterative process of workshops and facilitated discussion, not only how 'good practice' in one area can be uptaken in another, but to identify what sorts of waste, and what sorts of 'intervention points', may be best suited for taking forward creative interdisciplinary solutions, and to seek future funding to develop these, ensuring a legacy for the network. We also anticipate a number of smaller 'spin off' innovations, which may be quite simple, such as better recycling leaflet design and event management.
We aim for the long term benefits to be more sustainable waste management and treatment innovation systems and improved governance including citizen participation, enabling waste to be more sustainably treated and for more value to be extracted from waste streams. This would have clear benefits for the health, wealth and wellbeing of cities and their citizens.
Waste is a significant problem facing a rapidly urbanising world, with challenges at every stage including waste prevention, treatment/management, recycling and reuse, and the health and ecosystem impacts of poorly managed waste. Rising to these challenges, particularly in relation to sustainable cities, is high on the policy agenda at local, national and international levels. For example a recent (2013) UK Government report on waste noted that: We need to develop further the concept of a circular economy, where one person's waste becomes another's valuable resource...Making the changes needed may require innovation and creative thinking...
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the Network is to develop a forum for knowledge exchange and debate across art & humanities and science disciplines and subject areas with a common focus on waste treatment, management and innovation. This will seek to develop responses to the question: how can arts based approaches inform waste management innovation techniques and processes; and secondly, (how) does place (local context, identity, culture, governance) make a difference to waste generation, waste innovation delivery and uptake?
This aim will be met through the following objectives:
i)To establish an interdisciplinary network of Europe-wide academics, artists, scientists, practitioners, stakeholders, and interested end-users. We will run four workshops in 4 European cities (London, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Bangor in Wales) to explore and develop ideas, issues and possible solutions and learn from each other, and also run a number of 'pop-up' events piloting arts-based approaches to public engagement and waste. A 'wiki style' open source website will provide network support.
ii) to identify particular sorts of waste (e.g. industrial/domestic, organic/manufactured, chemicals/metals, waste-energy, water) and to identify specific 'intervention points', which have good potential for creative interdisciplinary innovation.
Applications and Benefits
Bringing together different disciplines and different 'communities of place and practice' to address a common problem will have the primary benefit of structured knowledge exchange and capacity building across a number of divides (e.g. academic/practitioner, geographical, artists and scientists). The process of creating and participating in the network will therefore be its key outcome/benefit. The network will also make connections (through the pop up events and through the website) with 'the general public', enabling 'local and lay expertise' to inform the network.
We aim to identify, through an iterative process of workshops and facilitated discussion, not only how 'good practice' in one area can be uptaken in another, but to identify what sorts of waste, and what sorts of 'intervention points', may be best suited for taking forward creative interdisciplinary solutions, and to seek future funding to develop these, ensuring a legacy for the network. We also anticipate a number of smaller 'spin off' innovations, which may be quite simple, such as better recycling leaflet design and event management.
We aim for the long term benefits to be more sustainable waste management and treatment innovation systems and improved governance including citizen participation, enabling waste to be more sustainably treated and for more value to be extracted from waste streams. This would have clear benefits for the health, wealth and wellbeing of cities and their citizens.
Planned Impact
Who will benefit from this research?
1. Artists seeking to develop local and international academic, and stakeholder/practitioner, relationships to enable arts informed interdisciplinary innovation and citizen engagement in relation to waste specifically and sustainability more generally;
2. Stakeholders and practitioners involved with the governance, management and treatment of waste, such as Local Authorities, NGOs and Social Enterprises, policy makers, local waste policy and practitioner agencies representatives; local/regional government, community partner and environmental groups;
3. Businesses seeking to become more sustainable and innovative around waste management;
4. Industries involved in waste management and treatment innovation;
5. Citizens as producers of waste and responsible for its management as end users of systems, and as stakeholders, ie as taxpayers, residents, ecological citizens.
How will they benefit from this research?
This Research Network's key objective is to build interdisciplinary capacity and knowledge exchange across a number of divides (geographical, academic/ practitioner, art/science, governance), and to develop specific foci for specific innovations/ interventions to improve waste management, treatment and governance in cities. Long term benefits will be more sustainable waste management and treatment innovation systems and improved governance including citizen participation, enabling waste to be more sustainably treated and for more value to be extracted from waste streams. The long term benefits of improved waste management innovation have clear benefits for the health, wealth and wellbeing of cities and their citizens. City waste systems are stretched, creating social and environmental risks. There is significant financial value to be extracted from waste streams as well as the potential to reuse and recycle more trace elements which are unsustainable to extract as raw materials. This is a key policy agenda: a UK Gov report (2013) Prevention is better than cure: The role of waste prevention in moving to a more resource efficient economy noted: we need to make better and more efficient use of the increasingly valuable resources available to us... a world where substantially less waste is created across the economy, delivering real financial, environmental and social benefits. The challenges of waste management and treatment are faced by all of us as global citizens, particularly city dwellers, and the research beneficiaries identified above are tasked with addressing these challenges in different ways and at different scales, from local to global.
Interim benefits for all key participants in the network (artists, scientists, policy makers, practitioners, stakeholders, businesses and industry, public citizens) who are already involved or potentially interested in the field of waste management/ treatment/ governance, will be the opportunity to become engaged in anongoing process of managed, structured, iterative knowledge exchange, through online networking and most importantly through the four city-based workshops and the associated public participative 'pop up' events. There will be a strong educational/ learning element, including wider public engagement, whereby "local/ lay knowledge" of citizens and practitioners, for example, can inform industrial innovators and policy makers. Knowledge exchange will enable significant capacity building which has its own value through informing the thinking and potential practice of different stakeholders; process as output. Capacity building around the role of the arts specifically in the waste innovation process is seen as a key benefit with the potential to inform current and future practice. Impacts are also anticipated in terms of identifying specific interdisciplinary innovations which can be developed into structured future funding applications (e.g. H2020) and other 'spin off' projects.
1. Artists seeking to develop local and international academic, and stakeholder/practitioner, relationships to enable arts informed interdisciplinary innovation and citizen engagement in relation to waste specifically and sustainability more generally;
2. Stakeholders and practitioners involved with the governance, management and treatment of waste, such as Local Authorities, NGOs and Social Enterprises, policy makers, local waste policy and practitioner agencies representatives; local/regional government, community partner and environmental groups;
3. Businesses seeking to become more sustainable and innovative around waste management;
4. Industries involved in waste management and treatment innovation;
5. Citizens as producers of waste and responsible for its management as end users of systems, and as stakeholders, ie as taxpayers, residents, ecological citizens.
How will they benefit from this research?
This Research Network's key objective is to build interdisciplinary capacity and knowledge exchange across a number of divides (geographical, academic/ practitioner, art/science, governance), and to develop specific foci for specific innovations/ interventions to improve waste management, treatment and governance in cities. Long term benefits will be more sustainable waste management and treatment innovation systems and improved governance including citizen participation, enabling waste to be more sustainably treated and for more value to be extracted from waste streams. The long term benefits of improved waste management innovation have clear benefits for the health, wealth and wellbeing of cities and their citizens. City waste systems are stretched, creating social and environmental risks. There is significant financial value to be extracted from waste streams as well as the potential to reuse and recycle more trace elements which are unsustainable to extract as raw materials. This is a key policy agenda: a UK Gov report (2013) Prevention is better than cure: The role of waste prevention in moving to a more resource efficient economy noted: we need to make better and more efficient use of the increasingly valuable resources available to us... a world where substantially less waste is created across the economy, delivering real financial, environmental and social benefits. The challenges of waste management and treatment are faced by all of us as global citizens, particularly city dwellers, and the research beneficiaries identified above are tasked with addressing these challenges in different ways and at different scales, from local to global.
Interim benefits for all key participants in the network (artists, scientists, policy makers, practitioners, stakeholders, businesses and industry, public citizens) who are already involved or potentially interested in the field of waste management/ treatment/ governance, will be the opportunity to become engaged in anongoing process of managed, structured, iterative knowledge exchange, through online networking and most importantly through the four city-based workshops and the associated public participative 'pop up' events. There will be a strong educational/ learning element, including wider public engagement, whereby "local/ lay knowledge" of citizens and practitioners, for example, can inform industrial innovators and policy makers. Knowledge exchange will enable significant capacity building which has its own value through informing the thinking and potential practice of different stakeholders; process as output. Capacity building around the role of the arts specifically in the waste innovation process is seen as a key benefit with the potential to inform current and future practice. Impacts are also anticipated in terms of identifying specific interdisciplinary innovations which can be developed into structured future funding applications (e.g. H2020) and other 'spin off' projects.
| Title | House of the Apostates |
| Description | artwork created specifically for the project by Irene Janze as part of 'pop up' public engagement/site specific installation House of the Apostates |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | public engagement with core project themes realising project objectives testing methodological practice |
| URL | http://burojanze.nl/ |
| Title | Take Off Your Skin |
| Description | artwork created specifically for the project by Ariaan Van Walsum as part of 'pop up' public engagement/site specific installation |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | public engagement with core project themes realising project objectives testing methodological practice |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=artist_s_space |
| Title | Vluchthavel (flight hill)/ the tables of Babel |
| Description | Creative collaboration by several smART cities network members, artists based in Amsterdam. Artists include Irene Janze, Maria Vandenput, Helena Koening, Ida Voorthuis, Netty Gelijsteen. Full list of contributing artists available on youtube (link below). Original artwork co-created with refugees at Lola Lik (a former prison, now home for refugees), Amsterdam, drawing attention to themes of communication, forced migration, the waste of human lives and potential,creative resistance to oppression, and aiming to develop meaningful connections with and support for, refugees in Amsterdam. (plus additional awareness raising). a number of creative workshops with refugee children and their families culminated in a final collaborative artist work: "flight hill". Below is text from the lead artist, SmARTcities creative director Irene Janze. "So we made the final model, looked for waste materials in and around the prison and started to built tables. By doing so we met people who suggested tables, told us their stories or gave us rest materials to built with. Through the meetings and with the materials the VLUCHTHEUVEL as we now call it changed. In English vluchtheuvel is flight hill, flight from to flee and a hill a little bulb in the landscape, but in fact we should translate it as traffic island, so again I cannot translate it correctly but words play an important role in this installation. We built a telescope table in which you could see yourself and your surroundings, a tone table on which you could make music, a speakers and smokers table and a drawing table, amongst others. Again I am not able to translate the names of the tables completely in English, but the names are important and painted on the sidewalk and have several meanings, not a singular one in Dutch.Hanna Arendt said: to speak is relational, to communicate is not a one way road. Just as Hannah Arendt (1958) proposes, we want our actions, whether theory-events, art, or thoughts to communicate, and to be shared. In order to communicate our thoughts, our innovations, ideas or art, we have to ensure that it is not a one-way activity, like a one way traffic sign that we have all been programmed to interpret in a similar manner, and which leads to similar behaviour and predictable responses. That's why we try to speak through the tables, to relate to the people and the situation.the names of the tables are important It tries to offer resistance or shows a way out of the controlled or disciplinary society (deleuze, foucoult) where there seems hardly any escape from. tone table = toon tafel; tone/ toon means a sound, a music tonethe same as in English, but in Dutch it also means to show , drawing table is in Dutch : teken tafel, you hear straight away the rhythm in it, it means to draw but it is also the word for an animal, a leach, and it is the dutch word for sign. The telescope table is aimed at you(many people take selfies) and your surroundings. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | significant impact: public engagement and awareness raising around the issues of refugees and forced migration outlined in previous section. creative activity with marginalised group (refugees -children and their families). development of network contacts with public groups and stakeholders. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RatsqPdEnXM&feature=youtu.be |
| Title | Wasted Thoughts and Votive Talismans |
| Description | artwork created specifically for the project by Netty Gelijsteen as part of 'pop up' public engagement/site specific installation |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | public engagement with core project themes realising project objectives testing methodological practice |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=public_engagement |
| Title | Worlds on Drift Off Grids |
| Description | artwork created by Maria Vandenput specifically for the project as part of 'pop up' public engagement/site specific installation |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | public engagement with core project themes realising project objectives testing methodological practice |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=artist_s_space |
| Title | art work: Industrial Iconographies |
| Description | original artwork created as part of collectively realised artistic 'pop up' events , Amsterdam, 2017, for smART cities (various locations). Artist: Irene Janze. text below by artist: Industrial Iconographies.The sculptures are all made out of thrown-away materials...I told stories about art, history and industrialization to the visiting public All the pop up experiments are basic artistic research, that is to say that the results are applicable for several circumstances and for different occasions. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | public engagement; impact; science communication (context; waste). Awareness raising. |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=the-dutch-smarties_and_the_wasted_people.pdf |
| Title | facebook group |
| Description | facebook group to rapidly connect network participants and engage with wider publics and stakeholders |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | public and stakeholder engagement participant and network capacity building |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/groups/1346575105416402/ |
| Title | project blog |
| Description | a blog written by the PI and other network members, reflecting on the workshops, the artwork created, core themes and issues. There are several blogs available on the URL below |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | widening participation and awareness of the smARTcities + waste project/network public and stakeholder engagement participant and network capacity building , developing shared knowledge |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=blog |
| Title | project website |
| Description | website archiving workshop content, participants, public engagement pop ups, blogs, other project resources |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | public and stakeholder engagement participant and network capacity building |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=start |
| Title | twitter account |
| Description | twitter account for the project |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | public and stakeholder engagement participant and network capacity building |
| URL | https://twitter.com/citiesandwaste |
| Title | youtube channel |
| Description | youtube channel for video film of content associated with the project (workshop talks, films of installations and artwork) |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | public and stakeholder engagement participant and network capacity building |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk2et3KZHVXDop925-ts2x |
| Description | Key Findings: the methodologies being trialled for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and capacity building have been shown to be effective; the workshops have been popular, well attended, lively and have had a strong interdisciplinary narrative and coherence relating to waste innovation. Different disciplines and different 'communities of practice' have informed each other and the network is continuing to grow and develop, post the 'official' award closing date of 31.1.18. Attendance by participants in several workshops attests to the success of the network and the realisation of aims and objectives. Arts-led approaches to interdisciplinary knowledge exchange have been shown to be particularly effective in opening up 'third space'; facilitating participants to think laterally and explore and engage outside of the comfort zone of their disciplinary or practitioner 'silos'. Examples of arts-led approaches for innovative public engagement purposes have inspired workshop participants; for example policy makers seeking to engage publics in recycling initiatives. "waste" as a "boundary object" dense in meaning and value(s) has easily generated interdisciplinary and cross-practice engagement across a number of divides A key finding and ongoing narrative for smART cities is how artists in the Netherlands involved in the network have continued to independently create new artwork engaging with the general public, on the theme of waste, in "pop up" contexts. This showcases the success of the network because of the additional 'added value' of 'spin off' , creative, "impact" events and public engagement through art, undertaken by network artists as an additional output for smART Cities.The methodologies trialled for arts-led public engagement for smARTcities, namely artistic site specific 'pop ups', have therefore been shown to work; they have been extremely successful and have generated significant involvement from artists in the network at no additional costs to the project (free time given by artists involved). This has involved the creation of new art works, several of which have been co-created with members of the public, including refugee families. The art pop ups and the artwork created have successfully engaged the public, raised awareness about a number of themes in the context of waste, and generated insights which fed into, and informed the development, of the network. A record of artistic work created and the public engagement pop up events themselves, is provided as part of this record of outputs on researchfish. Key themes for original pop up artwork created have been; the waste of materials, and the waste of human potential. A number of issues and themes have been identified as being of particular interest in the context of stimulating interdisciplinary innovation in the context of waste. These include the concept of "tipping points" ; and the experimental use of materials as 'common ground' between artists and scientists. More conceptually, the links between waste and value(s) have been explored: we have identified that "When an object has no value it is seen as waste. But waste is also dense in meaning and value(s)". (Alex Plows, blog post). In the second year of the project, these and other themes have been developed further. Materiality in the context of waste has been identified as a key interdisciplinary "third space" whereby artists and scientists are exploring the properties and values of materials in different ways. Conceptions of waste have been developed and understood in different contexts, informed by the themes and place-specific issues raised in the different workshop settings. Key conceptualisations of waste in year two of the project have included identifying (de) industrialisation and waste as a key cross cutting theme, particularly between the two workshop sites of Maastricht and Bangor (Wales); and developing an understanding of "human waste" in the context of the waste of human potential and impacts on human quality of life and human dignity; an issue raised by the issues of forced migration, and also of the social impacts of waste (such as e-waste disposal). While "science communication" per se is not the main objective of the network, the workshops are definitely fulfilling this function and providing scientists with means to communicate their research to different disciplines and publics. A number of themes and ideas associated with these issues and findings continue to inform the development of the network as we move into a new 'follow on' phase, following the successful creation of the network, capacity -building and knowledge exchange, and the generation of outputs. |
| Exploitation Route | Use of methods described above- for 'best practice' interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and for creative, collaboratory public engagement Science communication- the workshops and associated resources on the project wesbsite provide 'user friendly' overviews of key scientific developments such as synthetic biology The interdisciplinary, arts-led and place-situated approach provides a very colourful, rich and user-friendly "way in" to the "wicked problem" of waste. The interdisciplinary capacity developed and the links with different practitioners, including policy makers and industry, provide a rich baseline from which to develop additional interdisciplinary impact, including product innovation and science communication, Significant thematic and conceptual appreciation of waste in different contexts and the multiple meanings of waste. This is being uptaken and developed through the creation of new artwork , and particularly artwork which aims to socially engage, make a difference and raise awareness. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology,Retail,Securi |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=blog |
| Description | conceptualisations of waste in the context of "human waste" and forced migration (the waste of human potential) have been uptaken by artists in the Netherlands participating in the smART Cities and Waste network. Informed and inspired by the themes and issues emerging from the network, these artists have engaged in creative co-production with refugee families in the Netherlands, creating original artwork, enabling a supportive and creative environment for refugees to have their voices and stories heard through creative artiststic practice, and raising wider public awareness of key issues relating to forced migration and the status of refugees within the Netherlands. Further information can be found in other researchfish outputs provided with this report. a youtube film can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RatsqPdEnXM&feature=youtu.be |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Amsterdam art pop up2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A second arts pop up event took place in Amsterdam on 27th April (Kings Day) , with the smARTcities project's creative director, Irene Janze, running two pop ups in different suburbs of Amsterdam. As with the first pop up, the aim was to creatively engage the public in conversations about waste, through interaction with pop up arts installations. Approximately 100 people were engaged with in two locations in the city suburbs; a middle class district, and a low income, ethnic district. Videos of the events and feedback from Irene Janze (blogs and photos) are in the process of being digitally archived on the project website. Overviews of pop ups 1) and 2) were provided at the Amsterdam workshop held on 28th April. Artistic outputs generated by the pop ups continue to be developed and the methodology refined for future roll out. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=public_engagement |
| Description | Amsterdam interdisciplinary workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 25 people, mostly based in Amsterdam, (with the PI and co-I also attending) and representing a range of disciplines and practices (artists, scientists, local policy makers, students, humanities and social scientist academics, third sector organisations and local political parties), participated in the first smARTcities and waste arts-led interdisciplinary workshop, held at VU Free University, Amsterdam, April 28th 2016. The theme of the day was [waste, innovation and] Buildings, place(s), and space(s). The day consisted of interdisciplinary speakers, and participatory, faciliated deliberation (World cafe) around key discussion topics relating to the overall theme of the workshop and the aims of the network. Participants also brought along their own artwork and also participated in an interactive arts session, continuing the work of the arts pop up events also undertaken as public engagement initiatives as part of the network's capacity development and knowledge exchange remit. The world cafe discussion notes, Photos, blogs, social media (twitter, project website) , videos and presentation slides are amongst the initial outputs from this event which are being digitally archived currently. A workshop report will also be forthcoming and will be webmounted and circulated to participants. This is an iterative process of capaicty building and knowledge exchange across time and the findings and outputs from this event will inform the next workshop to be held Winter 2016. There has also been positive feedback from participants in the workshop and social media interest through twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=amsterdam |
| Description | Amsterdam pop up5) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pop- up 5, September 11, 2016 the Temple of Wasted Idols ( de tempel der Afvalgoden) , zeeburgerdijk 122 Amsterdam Purpose: to use arts led methods to engage the public in thinking about waste. Outputs include the ongoing development of artwork co-produced with members of the public who engaged in the pop up. The arts pop up event was organised by Irene Janze, the creative director of the smARTcities project, collaborating with other artists in the network After a lecture about conceptualism and the place of Paul Thek's technological reliquaries in art histrory and society people tried to make their own technological icons or wasted idols. footage Ariaan van walsum. movie Irene Janze |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=public_engagement#pop_pop-_up_5_september_11_2016_the_tem... |
| Description | Bangor workshop 4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the final workshop in this phase of smART cities. It was held in the Pontio arts centre, Bangor University. extremely well attended, and continued the theme of network capacity building and interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. As with the other workshops, participants and presenters were drawn from across the region and across a range of disciplines and practitioner bases , including industry/business and policy makers. A significant contingent of artists in the network who are based in the Netherlands, participated in this event and in some cases, presented at it, flagging the overall success of the network. the theme of this workshop was ' "Make Do and Mend": Materials Innovation in a Rural City Region'. Parallels were specifically drawn between the Bangor region and the Maastricht region/workshop (workshop 2, Dec 2016) around the waste issues catalysed by de industrialisation. Presentations were given by Gwynedd council waste authority, and a presentation setting out the policy context of sustainable development in Wales was also provided. There was a presentation about Industry /businesses developing new products from waste with Bangor university biocomposites centre. Additional cutting edge science presentations included biomining for waste clean up and resource extraction. There were a number of artistic installations by local and Netherlands artists in the workshop space, and presentations by some of these artists about their work. Interactive activities involving 'textual recycling' led by a local poet were very successful. Other speakers included the project PI (Alexandra Plows) providing an overview of the smART cities networks' objectives , achievements and setting out next steps. This event was well attended by local members of the public and there was significant discussion on how to develop new initiatives and additional impact arising from the network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=bangor |
| Description | Bespoke guided tour, Llanberis slate museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a bespoke guided tour of the Llanberis slate museum , including a talk by the director, on the theme of (de) industrialisation and waste, in October 2017. The audience were the participants in the Bangor smART cities workshop (workshop 4), held on the following day. The tour and talk provided visiting network members from the Netherlands with an opportunity to understand more about the region of North Wales and the wider environmental and socio economic context, particularly in relation to "slate waste" and (de) industrialisation in the region. Local people also participated in this event which provided an important introduction to the main workshop on the following day, and enabled artists working with the theme of de industrialisation in the Netherlands, to make significant connections with the local area and key stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=blog#the_proof_of_the_pudding |
| Description | London workshop 3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 30 people participated in the 3rd smART cities and Waste workshop held in London at Middlesex University. The workshop was organised around the theme of "urban waste streams and flows". The aim of this workshop was interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and network capacity building, around the wider theme of waste and the specific thematic focus of "urban waste streams and flows". The workshop saw presentations from a number of scientists involved in different waste science projects including nanotech clean up, e-waste, and urban water systems/ ecology remedial work. The North London Waste Authority presented about the challenges they face and their public engagement initiatives. A number of artists working with the theme of waste and use of waste materials also presented, and we ran an interactive activity where "flatpack" style furniture was made from waste cardboard. Social and cultural scientists also presented about the issues of re use , recycling and 'planned obsolescence'. The workshop enabled participants from different disciplines and knowledge bases, to come together around their shared interests in waste. It enabled significant knowledge exchange and the sharing of ideas and information. It continued to enable different disciplines to learn from each others' practice and also enabled science communication. A number of post and under graduates also participated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=london |
| Description | Maastricht Interdisciplinary workshop (2nd project workshop). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | the second smARTcities interdisciplinary worskhop held at the Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht on 9.12.16. title: This brought together artists, scientists, industry and business, local policymakers, local residents and others all working in/interesetd in, the field of waste and innovation. Approximately 40 people attended including a number of participants from the previous Amsterdam workshop, demonstrating the successful growth and development of the network. the day consisted of talks, artwork installations in the space, and structured discussions. Speakers and Contributors Professor Marco Scoponi, Bioplastics scientist, University of Ferrara, Italy. Coordinator of EU LIFE project: Biomop www.life-bimop.eu/2/upload/lr_v8_eng.pdf Dr Yvonne van der Meer, Head of Biobased Materials, Associate Professor - Sustainability and Environmental Impact of Biobased Materials, Maastricht University, Chemelot Campus www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fhs/biobased-materials Anhilde de Jong, Policy Advisor Waste Management, Gemeente (City of) Maastricht, https://www.gemeentemaastricht.nl/english/waste/ Dr Nora Vaage, Assistant Professor, Philosophy of Art & Culture, Maastricht University Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, http://fasos.maastrichtuniversity.nl/weekly/introducing-nora-s-vaage/ Professor Graeme Evans, Special Professor of Culture & Urban Development, Maastricht University, FASoS/Maastricht Centre for Art, Culture, Conservation & Heritage; Director of Research/Professor of Urban Cultures & Design, Middlesex University, Faculty of Art & Creative Industries http://adri.mdx.ac.uk.contentcurator.net/graeme-evans Dr Alex Plows, Research Fellow, Bangor University, Principal Investigator - smART Cities & Waste International Research Network https://www.bangor.ac.uk/so/staff/plows_research.php.en Artists Paul Koenen ,www.paulkoenen.com Tilmann Mayer-Faje www.tilmann.nl/ (organised and ran 'making things from scrap' workshop). Maria Louise Vandenput Installation: Worlds on drift off grid Marike Schuurman www.marikeschuurman.com/nl/ Artists & Waste network coordinator - **Irene Janze** info@burojanze.nl |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=maastricht |
| Description | Netherlands art pop up 6): art with refugees |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This pop up in Autumn 2017 involved the creation of artwork with refugees in Amsterdam, who are being housed in a former prison .http://www.lolalik.nl/ . The artists involved have developed cognitive and creative capacity through the network , to understand refugees in the context of the theme of waste; the waste of human resources, the waste of lives affected by war and conflict. The art pop up involved working with refugee families to create work over a timeframe and aimed to provide a voice and support for refugees through participatory, creative activity. the following text is written by the smART cities creative director, irene Janze. "The empty prison now functions as a home for refugees at one side and it houses social companies at the other side. We organized a workshop for and with the just arrived refugees with the aim to design an installation with them in the periphery of the Lola Lik as the prison was renamed. The workshop was called the Tower of Babel and we started with materials and a photo from a small square just in front of the building' s entrance, that was pointed out to us.So we made the final model, looked for waste materials in and around the prison and started to built tables. By doing so we met people who suggested tables, told us their stories or gave us rest materials to built with. Through the meetings and with the materials the VLUCHTHEUVEL as we now call it changed. In English vluchtheuvel is flight hill, flight from to flee and a hill a little bulb in the landscape, but in fact we should translate it as traffic island, so again I cannot translate it correctly but words play an important role in this installation. We built a telescope table in which you could see yourself and your surroundings, a tone table on which you could make music, a speakers and smokers table and a drawing table, amongst others. Again I am not able to translate the names of the tables completely in English, but the names are important and painted on the sidewalk and have several meanings, not a singular one in Dutch." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RatsqPdEnXM&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | amsterdam art pop up 1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | art pop up public engagement event attended by 40 people on 16.4.16, held in central Amsterdam. Purpose: to use arts led methods to engage the public in thinking about waste. Outputs include the ongoing development of artwork co-produced with members of the public who engaged in the pop up. The arts pop up event was organised by Irene Janze, the creative director of the smARTcities project, collaborating with the local artist Netty Gelijsteen. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClQbXcyFk-8VKWXU03UC6ew |
| Description | amsterdam pop up 4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pop Pop- up 4, July 3, 2016 Art boulevard Wertheim park Amsterdam Purpose: to use arts led methods to engage the public in thinking about waste. Outputs include the ongoing development of artwork co-produced with members of the public who engaged in the pop up. The arts pop up event was organised by Irene Janze, the creative director of the smARTcities project, collaborating with other artists in the network Description from smARTcities artistic director Irene Janze: Ariaan, Netty, myself and other apostates popped up at the Art boulevard in the Wertheimpark festival next to the Hortus in Amsterdam. Some people of the public made waste sculptures, some participated in project of Netty who invited the public in Dutch: "is er iets wat je aan niks en niemand kwijt wil? Neem plaats en vertel het me dan zal ik het vereeuwigen." "Tell me what you dont want to loose." Again, a very different public in comparison with publics at other occasions passed us by. Over all the public overhere produced no longer or hardly any waste at all. They all sorted out their left overs and put them in different garbage bins. Conclusion from the public: waste has become a resource. But is this really the case? Do we know what happens with the waste in the garbage bins? And do we need more recycled plastic for instance? To add to the amount of plastic all ready existing? Or do we have to go for bioplastics? Is recycling an answer to the waste problems? Or do we have to produce differently or may be less? Here more about the plastic topic at the workshop on December 8, 2016 in Maastricht Talking with the public people with young childeren expressed their concern about the plastic bubble.As have I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKNJyKyfL9g&feature=youtu.be .Buro jan-ZE, footage A.van Walsum, movie Irene Janze |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=public_engagement#pop_pop-_up_4_july_3_2016_art_boulevard... |
| Description | amsterdam pop up3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Pop- up 3, May 21-22, 2016 Purpose: to use arts led methods to engage the public in thinking about waste. Outputs include the ongoing development of artwork co-produced with members of the public who engaged in the pop up. The arts pop up event was organised by Irene Janze, the creative director of the smARTcities project, collaborating with other artists in the network Irene Janze and several of the artists participating in the Amsterdam workshop are an artist collective known as Buro jan-ZE. For the final Amsterdam smARTcities and waste pop up, Buro jan-ZE made an exhibition for the smARTcities and waste in an old building, Zeeburgerdijk 112 in Amsterdam in where Buro jan_ZE temporarily rents a studio. The Exhibition was open during the "Open studios Centrum-oost", 21st-22nd May2016. Occasionally performances /participatory events, were also held for people visiting the gallery. This final event was a culmination of themes and artwork developed by Irene Janze , Netty Gelijsteen and the other artists involved in Buro jan-ZE- Maria Louisa Vandenput, Ida Voorthuis and Ariaan van Walsum, most of whom also actively participated in the smARTcities Amsterdam workshop held on April 28th 2016 and indeed have been part of the delivery of previous pop ups. It is fascinating to see how these artists are working with, and critically exploring, the concept of "waste", and it is exciting to see how the workshop itself has been part of the "incubation period" of developing ideas. So there is a back-and forth- dialogue here, which is also involving the public's perspective, through these "open source", pop up, participatory practices. Irene has written a PDF report, available here,reportexpo_zeeburgerdijk.pdf which is a fantastic,colourful and insightful record of this final exhibition. She notes that: The exhibition is of course not intended as illustrations or explanations of scientific and/or technological waste innovations. It is certainly not my intention to reduce the artworks and performances as suchIn Amsterdam the focus of the smARTcities and waste meeting was and is on buildings, cities, matter, skins and bodies. We have tried to address those issues raised in the workshop at the VU in a poetic and/or artistic way photo:J.Mesman |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/doku.php?id=public_engagement#pop-_up_3_may_21-22_2016 |
| Description | art pop up 7): Amsterdam festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As a result of the success of pop -up 6), artists involved in pop up 6) and other smART cities network members, participated in a festival organised by the 'Lola Lik' organisation in Amsterdam in October 2017. The festival brought together refugees being housed by Lola Lik, together with members of the public. smART city network artists created new pieces of artwork for this festival and engaged in further creative interactive events with festival -goers, including refugees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://smartcitiesandwaste.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=the-dutch-smarties_and_the_wasted_people.pdf |