Overview
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During this session we will explore how art and culture is being brought to the Mission Ocean by two visionary projects: TIDAL ArtS and PartArt4OW. While art has long been viewed as a means for communications and dissemination, these two projects are redefining that paradigm to realise the interdisciplinary power that citizen-research-art synergies can have. By exploring our aquatic ecosystems in new ways, new forms of inspiration and oneness with the natural world can be generated. Both projects will share opportunities for artists to receive funding to complete Mission Ocean projects and for other interested parties to get involved!
Join us!
Programme
02:00
Welcome, Valerie de Liedekerke, BlueMissionAA / AIR Centre
02:05
Introduction, Baiba Prūse, University College Cork (UCC)
02:10
TIDAL ArtS – Transforming and Inspiring Aquatic Landscapes through Art and Sciences, Sarah Tamulski, SUBMARINER Network
02:30
PartArt4OW (Participatory Art for Society Engagement with Ocean and Water), Chiara Certomà, Sapienza Università di Roma
02:50
Q&A session
Speakers
SPEAKER
Sarah Tamulski
SUBMARINER Network
Sarah Tamulski is the coordinator of TIDAL ArtS, an interdisciplinary project bringing together scientists, citizens, with artists and creatives. TIDAL ArtS challenges the binary thinking that has historically divided nature and culture (as well as humans and non-humans) and engages instead with a tidal logic that nurtures currents of influence between disciplines and species. Sarah is an interdisciplinary project manager with a background in international human rights, ocean governance, and now ocean literacy!
SPEAKER
Chiara Certomà
Sapienza Università di Roma
Chiara Certomà is an assistant professor of socio-political geography at Sapienza University of Rome MEMOTEF Dep., with over fifteen years of research experience in participatory methods for science and policy making. Engaged in 15 national and international research projects, is an expert in environmental governance and social innovation for sustainability, adopts participatory citizen science and mobilises volunteers in data collection, elaboration and sharing on the biological consequences of marine plastic pollution. Chiara is actively committed in Marine Social Science, visual geography and ocean studies. She authored more than 30 papers and books and led the EU project “SeaPacs” (awarded the EU Citizen Science Prize 2024 – Diversity and Collaboration), “SeaPaCS”, “FishArt”, “Tentacular Thinking”, and “PartArt4OW”.
Moderator
SPEAKER
Baiba Prūse
University College Cork
Baiba Prūse is an interdisciplinary researcher from Latvia with a focus on local ecological knowledge (ethnobiology) and citizen science. She hold a B.Sc. from Business Academy Aarhus (Denmark) in Environmental management field, M.Sc. from Uppsala University (Sweden) in Sustainable Development and completed her PhD on knowledge co-creation at University of Latvia. She is strongly supporting the research strategy of inter / transdisciplinarity and collaborative work between artists. She is eager to learn more on how to move from research recommendations to direct implementation and foresee – art and science combination as the perfect starting point. In October 2024, Baiba joined UCC MaREI team where with the colleagues she explores citizen engagement across Mission Ocean activities.
Resources
April 16th, 2025, Atlantic & Arctic Lighthouse Weekly Hour S03E12: Tides of Creativity: Bringing the Power of Arts & Culture to Mission Ocean