Welcome to ABS anniversary meeting and workshop in Helsinki 2-4 December 2026! In the workshop, we will discuss about our present and past activities – and especially about the future! The workshop venues will be Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki and the University of Helsinki Science… Read More »ABS anniversary meeting 2-4 December 2026
Earlier this year, we started a new development project in the ABS network. The project is called Co-creative curriculum development, and it is done in close collaboration with the highly successful joint Nordic Master in Environmental Changes at Higher Latitudes (EnCHiL). The specific aims of… Read More »Developing curricula in a co-creative manner
We had the winter meeting of the network in a very familiar – and friendly – environment at Geocentrum I of Lund University on 1-3 December 2025. In this year’s winter meeting we revived the old tradition of having a pedagogical workshop in connection to… Read More »20 years of ABS network!
On the last week of June 2025, a group of 11 people from Estonia, Finland and Iceland, all having experience working on the art-science interface gathered in Viinistu Art Harbour, Kuusalu, Estonia for three days to discuss the essential elements of art-science collaboration, identities, ethical… Read More »Art and Science Met in Viinistu
Greetings from Reykjavík! We have spent the past three days developing our joint Nordic EnCHiL master’s programme as well as making more specific plans for our new exciting projects in the ABS collaboration. It’s a busy teaching and field campaign period, so the onsite group… Read More »ABS/EnCHiL spring meeting 2025
Greetings from Roskilde! The ABS winter meeting took place 3-5 December. We were very productive, setting our targets for the years to come. We also had a chance to visit the fabulous research facilities of DTU and Aarhus University on Risø campus. Keep following!
by Zdeněk Lyčka, Laura Riuttanen, Mireia Saladrigues and Janne Salovaara From art and science, something old and familiar we construct artence and from their amalgamated practice; the artentic search—pre and post re-search, when we, the human— ancestral or child, used to invent the reality we… Read More »Artentic Search
We had a very successful workshop in Hvanneyri and Reykjavík between 14 and 16 May 2024, connected to the annual board meeting of the EnCHiL master programme. The network has been very active during the past year, and therefore we had a lot of things… Read More »ABS Network Meeting + We Belong Review Meeting
by Saara Lilja, Timo Vesala and María Rún Þrándardóttir, August 2023 Part I A few years ago I started this journey to better understand climate awareness. Climate change is such an abstract issue that it is often too complicated for our brains. We need different… Read More »Creativity as a planetary link between science and art – Why small is the greatest?
Between 26-29 June 2023, 15 artists, scientists and educators gathered together in Melbu, Vesterålen for three days to learn from each other, to work together for a more sustainable world, and to create a toolkit to combine science and art in education. We worked mainly… Read More »Science-Art Toolkit Workshop
