Past events
2025
AIMday Kulturdriven platsutveckling
The event takes place on 19 NovemberUnder AIMday Kulturdriven platsutveckling utforskar vi hur kultur kan bidra till att skapa levande, inkluderande och hållbara platser runt om i Uppsala län.
Collective intelligence
The event takes place on 22 SeptemberIn a society that has long been characterised by individualism, collective intelligence and joint action may be a possible answer to how we can tackle the challenges of our time. Perhaps even a necessity? Today, there is a strong focus and significant resources are being devoted to AI, but other forms of intelligence may also need to be explored at the same pace.
2024
Seminar series: Interwoven Worlds (2024)
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The importance of culture in the transition to a greener, more inclusive and digital society, and the role of culture and creativity in boosting innovation, was discussed in a series of seminars this autumn. The seminars highlighted research, experiences and concrete cases and explore conditions, obstacles and opportunities relating to the potential contribution of culture and creativity towards solving societal challenges.
The seminar series was organised by Uppsala University Culture & Creativity together with Uppsala Municipality and Region Uppsala.
Seminars in the series autumn 2024
- 25 September 2024: The role of creativity in innovation-driven development
About the importance of culture and creativity for a sustainable, inclusive and innovation-driven Europe and the new national strategy for cultural and creative industries.
- 24 October 2024: The Ecosystem of Culture
About research on the role of culture for social cohesion and the transition to a more innovation-driven society, and present research on how the hidden geography and networks of culture can be mapped using AI and mathematical models.
Participants: Pier Luigi Sacco, Professor of Cultural Economics at the University of Pescara and Harvard Business School,
Massimo Buscema, Professor of Mathematics at Colorado University and Director of the Semeion Research Institute in Rome,
Guido Ferilli, Associate Professor of Cultural Economics at the IULM University of Milan and Director of the Cultural Industries and Complexity Observatory,
Moderator David Karlsson, historian of ideas and cultural writer
- 26 November 2024: Cirkular place development
What have we learned through the seminar series and how can we translate these insights into a local and regional context?
The third seminar in the Interwoven Worlds series was devoted to Swedish examples. Björn Ohlén and Lisa Lundin from Region Västra Götaland talked about the successful work with circular site development based on adapted reuse of cultural environments. Marlene A Johansson from RISE and Karin Björk from Umeå Municipality shared experiences from Umeå's Capital of Culture year and how culture and creativity have contributed to sustainable urban development.
Discussions was led by the moderator David Karlsson, historian of ideas and cultural writer together with representatives from Uppsala University (Vice-Rektor Tora Holmberg), Uppsala Municipality (Patric Kiraly) and Region Uppsala (Annika Eklund).
Info meeting on funding opportunities (2024)
EIT Culture & Creativity publishes open calls for proposals for innovative higher education, professional training, products and services, as well as to start and accelerate businesses.
An info meeting was held 10 September 2024, for researches interested in applying for upcoming calls. On the agenda was an overview of EIT Culture & Creativity, upcoming calls and the process.
Documentation from the meeting
Seminar: Possible Worlds: Towards a New Imaginary (2024)
The internationally recognised philosopher Timothy Morton and innovation expert Michela Magas meet game designer Doris Rusch and futurist Karim Jebari in a captivating conversation about the major issues of our time. The conversation will be a visionary introduction to the Otherworldly festival at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress on Friday 4 October.
2023
In the crossing of art and research: New questions, new methods – new answers? (2023)
The questions and methods used by researchers and artists can be radically different. But they can also overlap, cross-fertilize, and collide in constructive ways.
Lectures by the artist Anna Odell and the researcher Andrea Petitt. Panel moderated by Ulrika Bergstén, Secretary-General for Vetenskap & Allmänhet.
- Date: 4 December 2023, 17:00–21:30
- Location: Uppsala konstmuseum
- Organiser: Centrum för medicinsk humaniora in cooperation with Uppsala Co-creation Community for Culture and Creativity and Uppsala konstmuseum
Contact
- Platform manager, Uppsala University Culture & Creativity
- Anna Wallsten