Open Call | HackS+T+ARTS 2022: Circular Futures
The Circular Futures Hackathon is a hack-and-think roadmap aiming to unleash open social innovation in the arts and sciences and foster transdisciplinary collaborations.
The ONASSIS STEGI in collaboration with ΜΑDE Group in the context of S+T+ARTS Regional Centers - Repairing the Present, invites designers, artists, architects, thinkers, humanists, policy makers, scientists, technologists, academics and entrepreneurs to a hackathon for rethinking and redesigning systems for circularity.
The products, processes, and projects that we work on are increasingly complex and interrelated systems. We now realise so many of these complex yet crucial systems that we rely on are fragile, unsustainable, and exploit this planet’s finite resources over both space and time, borrowing from what belongs to future generations.
The circular economy is a systems solution framework that tackles global challenges based on three simple principles: designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Building a circular economy in cities can bring economic, social, and environmental benefits in shaping our sustainable COMMUNITIES and places.
As we enter the "4th Industrial Revolution" (4IR), enormous creative possibilities emerge, necessitating multi-layered solutions for the transition to the circular economy. The rapid technological advancements in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI), robotics, autonomous vehicles, big data analytics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials, and energy storage challenge the current status quo and re-define our relationship with our environments and the world.
The hackathon aims to motivate all change-makers – governments, companies, and individuals – and to serve as a platform for open social innovation in the arts and sciences, so that the changes we make may have unexpected and often unpredictable effects, advance the circular economy and think of possible sustainable futures.
"You cannot understand a system until you try to change it"
Lewin, 1946
For a societal endeavor of this scale, stakeholders from the creative and cultural industries, civil society, academia, policy making, the industry and more need to be actively engaged. That’s why S+T+ARTS is calling on all relevant actors to reflect upon these systems and pool their efforts to shift mind-sets, experiment and make great transition happen through co-creation.
Join the co-creation journey, which will help our community to become a better place for everyone!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The Hackathon is open to everyone, but pre-registration is required. We encourage team applications but interested parties can apply as individuals and find partners prior to the hackathon.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20.05.2022
Applications will be open until the 20th of May 2022 at 18.00 EEST! Applications sent after this deadline will not be taken into consideration. The successful applicants will be notified by the 30th of May, and will need to physically attend all days from 1-3rd July including an online pre-event early in June.
The working language will be in Greek with interventions & inspirational talks in English. The hackathon aims to cultivate the S+T+Arts regional center ethos in Greece while we "think globally, act locally".
Participation is free of charge.
For further enquiries, please contact us at networks@onassis.org
ABOUT THE PARTNERS
Circular Futures is organised by ONASSIS STEGI and MADE Group in the context of the Regional S+T+Arts Centers program, of the S+T+Arts European Commission initiative.