UNIC-ART – How Artistic Thinking, Artistic Intelligence, and Speculative Design Can Help

Think about a challenge in your work or social life that you are finding really difficult to address because it appears to complex or too intractable; or think of something you would like to change in your work life: a procedure, a hierarchy, a way of doing things, a structure.

How can artistic methodologies enhance problem-solving, communication, and innovation within education? The UNIC-ART  is a dynamic initiative designed to integrate artistic research methods while exploring challenges, fostering new ideas, and expanding their perspectives.

This whole day through a series of hands-on exercises, interactive interventions, and speculative explorations, this event will introduce creative strategies to:

• Foster improvisation and radical speculation toward new solutions
• Develop empathy and cross-cultural communication
• Express abstract and inexpressible ideas through movement, metaphor, and storytelling
• Strengthen voices and narratives in decision-making processes

Guided by experienced researchers and practitioners, participants will engage in a stimulating and immersive experience that goes beyond conventional academic approaches, embracing creativity as a tool for transformation.

This session is part of UNIC-ART, an initiative within the Thematic Line Arts, Culture and Creativity.

Event Details

📅 Date: 6 March
⏰ Time: From 9:00 AM until 17:00 PM
📍 Location: CLI Lab and Langeveld, Erasmus University Rotterdam
🗣 Language: English
🎟 Audience: Creative minds, researchers, and engaged practitioners

Facilitators

 -  Pauwke Berkers, Erasmus University Rotterdam

 -  Brice Catherin, University College Cork

 -  Yvon Bonenfant, University College Cork

 -  Joel Veborg, Forum for Social Innovation, Malmö University

 -  Per-Anders Hillgren, Malmö University

This event is free, but spaces are limited. For inquiries, please contact UNIC student Representative Marta Martin Fortuny. 

You can read how the event was on the ESHCC website.